Quotes About Failure

Cannot put Humpty Dumpty to rights!

We fail at romantic love when we have not learned the art of loving. It's as simple as that. Often we confuse perfect passion with perfect love.

The unhappiness of men in relationships, the grief men feel about the failure of love, often goes unnoticed in our society precisely because the patriarchal culture really does not care if men are unhappy.

We fail at romantic love when we have not learned the art of loving

When we do this thing, we admit failure. We admit fear—yes, terror. We are terrified of a new idea, a new scientific discovery. The government of the world, the protectors of peace and stability, must stoop to exiling some of the world's finest minds. This is a horrible state of affairs. Truly

I'm convinced that much of the success I have experienced in life is a result of learning from my failures.

I had focused on the failure because I had not yet acquired the wisdom necessary to attain a better perspective.

Life in the Army is miserable that way. You fuck up, they scream at you, you fuck up some more and they scream some more, but overlying all the small, petty, stupid, basically foreordained fuckups looms the ever-present prospect of the life-fucking fuckup, a fuckup so profound and all-encompassing as to crush all hope of redemption.

A misspelled word is probably an alias for some desperate call for aid, which is bound to fail.

freedom to take risks—and fail—define the heart of a Skunk Works operation.

A recent article in the Financial Analysts Journal confirmed what other studies (and the sad experience of many investors) have shown: that the fastest-growing companies tend to overheat and flame out.

you will never know the joy of success until you have experience the joy of failure.

The spinners were watching me, waiting, needles poised, and unless I did their bidding then my fate would be failure.

were in the camp, given a day's rest after leading the last failed assault. Will Skeat hated failure.

Wonderboy flashed in the sun. It caught the sphere where it was biggest. A noise like a twenty-one gun salute cracked the sky. There was a straining, ripping sound and a few drops of rain spattered to the ground. The ball screamed toward the pitcher and seemed suddenly to dive down at his feet. He grabbed it to throw to first and realized to his horror that he held only the cover. The rest of it, unraveling cotton thread as it rode, was headed into the outfield.

Anch'io sono consapevole del cattivo uso che ho fatto della mia vita, di come passa in fretta e di come la butto via. Pretendo da me più di quello che ottengo, forse più di quello che ho ottenuto. Siamo due falliti, signor Levin?»

she didn't tell them she'd taken her father for granted and carried her blinkered, self-righteous perspective of him from childhood through to his death, when in fact he'd done nothing wrong except fail to live up to her feminist expectations of him

Two people between whom there is love succeed or fail together, but when two people hate each other the success of either is the failure of the other. If

The less rational a man is, the oftener he will fail to perceive how what injures others also injures him, because hatred or envy will blind him. Therefore, although I do not pretend that enlightened self-interest is the highest morality, I do maintain that, if it became common, it would make the world an immeasurably better place than it is.

The practical distinction among passions comes as regards their success: some passions lead to success in what is desired; others, to failure. If you pursue the former, you will be happy; if the latter, unhappy.

A few societies have perished from

You're never too old to keep failing your children, are you? Why weren't we told this was a life sentence?

Jesus loves us. He is not scandalized by our failures. He is not limited in what he can do with what's left after family disasters. Nothing is beyond his redemption when he is invited in. No one with a whit of breath left is beyond the reach of his grace.

So how do we go from stumbling to standing? The answers will vary according to where and how we fail, but the source will always remain the same: God and His precepts of life. That's why you must be in the Word of God on a consistent basis . . . You have to determine to take advantage of what God has made available. Kay Arthur, As Silver Refined