Quotes About Failure

What the world calls failure, I call learning.

When a woman is convinced that she can stop the violence in her marriage, her stubborn determination feeds her sense of failure each time she sees that she can't regulate her husband's demands and abuses. In a perverse type of review, she may then ask herself how she could have been so stupid as to overlook the early warnings. This further diminishes her self-esteem.

if we are aiming to be genuinely self-reliant, we must learn to embrace uncertainty and anxiety. If we fail, there will be nothing to break our fall—nothing but whatever cushion we have managed to create for ourselves.

There is nothing in the world so easy to explain as failure - it is, after all, what everybody does all the time.

What's so wonderful about experiments is that often they don't work. They do blow up in the oven; the Bride of Frankenstein does crawl out and strangle you with a black leotard while you shout your last prayers. It's only once you've tasted your own shocking failures, harebrained ideas, and sudden departures that you will realize something quite wonderful.

I'd like to see much more understanding of emotional issues around hurt, abandonment, disappointment, longing, failure and shame, where they stem from and how they drive people and policies brought into public discourse.

The Capitol had tried to take everything from Lucy Gray, and it had utterley failed.

I´ve blown it, the whole grisly charade.

Is it wrong that I'm wishing for congestive heart failure now?" he asks through the food.

So many financial dreams are thwarted by the failure to act upon good intentions.

i have the potential to either be great, or a great failure!

True, everything they'd done so far had failed. But they had learned things! What had happened to the idea of knowledge for the sake of knowledge? Truth for the sake of truth?

Take Risks in Your Life If u Win, U Can Lead! If u Lose, U Can Guide!

Sometimes women get devastated by failing. Athletes don't; they just know that means they've got to practise harder, and they've got to do something else differently.

It's important that nobody gets mad at you for screwing up. We know screwups are an essential part of making something good.

I guess I've played a lot of failures, which is a Huston quality, I guess. I love losers, though, and have never met anyone who hasn't been one sometime. I'm always looking to understand them, and my father had an extremely keen eye to be able to dissect and bring that forward in the way he told his stories.

Sometimes, it is good to lose - you learn.

That sense of failure, I don't know where people put it who don't write songs and aren't able to emote physically. It must go somewhere.

There's a lot of kids who look up to me, and that's humbling. Because being human, I don't want to fail them. But being human, I will. That's why it's so important to have your faith put in something that won't fail you. And that means the Son of God's kingdom.

The thing is, I feel like it would defeat the purpose of being a musician if I let any kind of fear of failure affect my songwriting or making an album or whatever.

If analysis shows that someone's brilliant work fails again and again as soon as cooperation from others is required, it probably indicates a lack of courtesy - that is, a lack of manners.

One indie film does well, for example a 'Bheja Fry,' that gets money for another 20 indie projects. But as soon as the first 8 projects release and flop, out of the 12 remaining ones, six will never take off, three will remain incomplete and the others will be shelved.

Sorry, but there is no pleasure in finding new ways of saying the same stuff about projects which tanked.

Soundtracks are made all the time that die horrible deaths - even soundtracks for popular movies.