Quotes About Failure

She knows there's no success like failure, and that failure's no success at all.

In the dime stores and bus stations People talk of situations Read books, repeat quotations Draw conclusions on the wall Some speak of the future My love she speaks softly She knows there's no success like failure And that failure's no success at all -Bob Dylan, "Love Minus Zero / No Limit" (1965)

Early failure is usually better than early success, because the lesson in humility lasts a long time and makes you more effective over the long term.

The mark of success, or failure, in handling victory is what happens the next time out.

I treat winning and losing exactly the same. I see them both as necessary steps to get us where we are going. Big failures big lessons little failures little lessons.

The elder Kim had dealt with weapons test failures by ordering the death of the responsible scientists and officials. They were shot. The younger Kim accepted failures in tests, apparently absorbing the practical lesson: Failure is inevitable on the road to success. Under Kim Jong Un, the scientists lived to learn from their mistakes, and the weapons programs improved.

I think that collectivization was an erroneous and unsuccessful measure and it was impossible to admit the error. To conceal the failure people had to be cured, by every means of terrorism, of the habit of thinking and judging for themselves, and forced to see what didn't exist, to assert the very opposite of what their eyes told them.

Avevo la coscienza in disordine. Ho fatto cilecca in un bel po' di cose.

For most affairs, this eventually becomes the most fundamental of questions, the only one that matters: Do we love each other more than the lives we already have? It is the question that hovers in the background of every secret phone call, flavors every tryst with the head of possibilities of apocalypse and renewal; and it is the answer to that question, or the lack thereof, that so often dooms an affair to failure.

I counsel you, put down in record even your doubts and surmises. Hereafter it may be of interest to you to see how true you guess. We learn from failure, not from success.

There is nothing in the world so easy to explain as failure. It is, after all, what everyone does all the time.

Upon my word, there is nothing in the world so easy to explain as failure – it is, after all, what every body does all the time.

Há quem prefira atribuir sua falta de êxito a uma falha do mundo em vez de ao conhecimento mediano que tenha.

Palavra de honra, não existe nada no mundo tão fácil de explicar como o fracasso... É, afinal de contas, o que todo mundo alcança o tempo inteiro.

Why am I obsessed with the idea I can justify myself by getting manuscripts published? Is it an escape-an excuse for any social failure-so I can say No, I don't go out for many extracurricular activities, but I spend a lot of time writing. Or is it an excuse for wanting to be alone and meditate alone, not having to brave a group of women? (Women in numbers has always disturbed me.)

miedo a triunfar y después, de algún modo, perderlo todo.

Blame, justification, and complaining are like pills. They are nothing more than stress reducers. They alleviate the stress of failure.

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

Most editors are failed writers. But so are most writers

Believe me, Michael: Those who flee from the past will always lose the race. I know this from experience. When you reach your goal, Your imagined paradise of success and grandeur, You will find your past failures waiting there to greet you.

And the poet who fears to take the risk that what he writes may turn out not to be poetry at all, is a man who has surely failed, who ought to have adopted a less adventurous vocation

You took your shot. It didn't work out. Now you get to do laundry. That's what life is shaped like.

When we fail to attain a desired outcome, we often extrapolate from that experience the belief that we have no control over our lives or over certain parts of it. Such thinking leads to despair.

When we fail to attain a desired outcome, we often extrapolate from that experience the belief that we have no control over our lives or over certain parts of it. Such thinking leads to despair. Timon, unhappy as a rat racer, equally unhappy