Quotes About Failure

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th time.

Success is failing nineteen times and soaring the twentieth.

Your failures and your faults, they stick with you. They glob into ugly, cancerous growths inside you and make you want to die.

Success, after all, loves a witness, but failure can't exist without one.

I talk to my inner lover, and I say, why such rush? We sense that there is some sort of spirit that loves birds and animals and the ants-- perhaps the same one who gave a radiance to you in your mother's womb. Is it logical you would be walking around entirely orphaned now? The truth is you turned away yourself, and decided to go into the dark alone. Now you are tangled up in others, and have forgotten what you once knew, and that's why everything you do has some weird sense of failure in it.

Worldly institutions fail because they require power and gold to operate. Power and gold attract wicked and greedy people. Wicked and greedy people are corrupters and betrayers. Therefore, worldly institutions become corrupt and betrayed. ...

I had failed to make a gift of myself to God.

The God who may have inspired the first successful peasants' uprising in history is a God of revolution. In all three faiths, he has inspired an ideal of social justice, even though it has to be said that Jews, Christians and Muslims have often failed to live up to this ideal and have transformed him into the God of the status quo.

It was always her failure for not being able to talk to us, never ours for not being able to understand her.

What have you learned? my father asked, and I didn't have the words then, but, in retrospect, the lesson seemed to be that what you accomplish will never matter so much as where you fail.

But where you succeed will never matter so much as where you fail. .

Where you succeed will never so much matter as where you fail. -We Are All Beside Ourselves

WHERE YOU SUCCEED will never matter so much as where you fail," I said.

Success is everyone's child. Failure is an orphan." Omas smiled ruefully.

you will eventually reach a point where that tight control you have over every single aspect of your life is going to fail spectacularly. Something is bound to happen. And it might be good, or it might be bad

Failure presumes a lot of prior knowledge. Otherwise, how would you know whether a change represents failing? The word anomaly is important in this context because it refers to a cue that does not fit into a series, something that is a departure from common order, form, or rule.

There is nothing worse than bringing up the 'good old days.' To me, that's the ultimate acknowledgment of failure.

noblesse parlementaire par cinq départements qui avaient groupé leurs vois sur son nom. Ainsi, la Montagne paraissait, le 29 mai 1849, étant donné les conflits inévitables entre les différentes fractions monarchistes et entre l'ensemble du parti de l'ordre et Bonaparte, avoir pour elle tous les éléments de succès. Quinze jours plus tard, elle avait tout perdu, y compris l'honneur.

The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan was a bad one nonetheless.

But he who neither thinks for himself nor learns from others, is a failure as a man.

It is ever so with the things that Men begin: there is a frost in Spring, or a blight in Summer, and they fail of their promise.

When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influences and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and his dying a cold horror.

When a man arrives at great prosperity God did it: when he falls into disaster he did it himself.

In tyranny lies only failure. Empower every man and you will gain strength.