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Quotes About Failure

hope and uncertainty [are] the twin ingredients necessary for romance to thrive. ... Nothing begins with so much excitement and hope, or fails as often, as love.
~ Diane Ackerman
I do love television. But the business is accelerating and people are not getting the chance to fail.
~ Dick Wolf
Vice is basically the love of failure.
~ Elfriede Jelinek
The things that'll make you fail I'll love always.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Better to fail at what you love than succeed at what you hate. People have strange ideas about success ... too much to do with money, not enough to do with joy.
~ Faith Sullivan
I'll look to the crossAs my failure is lostIn the light ofYour glorious grace
~ Hillsong
When you're vested in fear, frightened of failure, yet in the surrender is where you find your success.
~ Julieanne O'Connor
Vested in fear, frightened of failure, but beyond that I choose to surrender to my fated success.
~ Julieanne O'Connor
If the ego rules you then the love fails you.
~ Akash B Chandran
We learn from failure, not from success! When
~ Bram Stoker
Life is nothings; I heed him not. But to fail here, is not mere life or death. It is that we become as him; that we henceforward become foul things of the night like him—without heart or conscience, preying on the bodies and the souls of those we love best. To us forever are the gates of heaven shut; for who shall open them to us again? We go on for all time abhorred by all; a blot on the face of God's sunshine; an arrow in the side of Him who died for man
~ Bram Stoker
Aprendemos de los fracasos; no de los éxitos.
~ Bram Stoker
Despite the darkness and the rhythmic trotting of the huge four-legged brick pulling the coach, Cole had failed to relax enough to sleep.
~ Brandon Mull
Living in a mortal world involves pain.... Entropy presides here. Everything moves toward dissolution and death. But physical damage is the lesser problem. The damage to our hearts is far more difficult to repair. We experience loss, disappointments, failure, mistakes. People deliberately harm us. Other wounds are self-inflicted. with experience we learn that we cannot harm another without also harming ourselves. ~The Traveler
~ Brandon Mull
He was simply someone who floated through our lives and didn't seem to care how flatly he perceived everyone or that he'd shared our secret failures with the world, showcasing the youthful indifference, the gleaming nihilism, glamorizing the horror of it all.
~ Bret Easton Ellis
The reassuring smile was now useless. I was plastic. Everything was veiled. Objectivity, facts, hard information--these were things only in the outline stage. There was nothing tying anything together yet, so the mind built up a defense, and the evidence was restructured, and that was what I tried to do on that morning--to restructure the evidence so it made sense--and that is what I failed at.
~ Bret Easton Ellis
Things changing, failing apart, fading, another year, a few more moves, a hard person who doesn't give a fuck, a boredom so monumental it humbles, arrangements so fleeting made by people you don't even know that it requires you to lose any sense of reality you might have once acquired, expectations so unreasonable you become superstitious about ever matching them.
~ Bret Easton Ellis
He wasn't, I realized when I read those scenes concerning Blair and myself, close to any of us-- except of course to Blair, and really not even to her. He was simply someone who floated through our lives and didn't seem to care how flatly he perceived everyone or that he'd shared our secret failures with the world, showcasing the youthful indifference, the gleaming nihilism, glamorizing the horror of it all. But there was no point in being angry with him.
~ Bret Easton Ellis
It was clear that this had not been my best term; it was clear that I was losing it.
~ Bret Easton Ellis
the tough philosophy of Ginaz taught that there were no accidents, no excuses for failure. Every event was the result of a sequence of actions. Intentions were irrelevant to actual outcomes.
~ Brian Herbert
So I have failed you?" "Not at all. Your human frailties are not your fault.
~ Brian Herbert
Life is filled with tests, one after another, and if you don't recognize them, you are certain to fail the most important ones. —admonition to acolytes, the Rossak School
~ Brian Herbert
Tarih aç?s?ndan her ÅŸey yaln?z sonuçlar?yla aktar?lacak denli basittir, tarihin kriteri, baÅŸar? ya da baÅŸar?s?zl?kt?r.
~ Brian O'Doherty
It is impossible to succeed without failing.
~ Brian Tracy