Quotes About Failure

Mister, that boy couldn't hit the ground if he fell out of an airplane.

Some economists became obsessed with market efficiency and others with market failure. Generally held to be members of opposite schools-"freshwater" and "saltwater," Chicago and Cambridge, liberal and conservative, Austrian and Keynesian-both sides share an essential economic vision. They see their discipline as successful insofar as it eliminates surprise-insofar, that is, as the inexorable workings of the machine override the initiatives of the human actors.

Yet I believe the Google system of the world will fail, indeed be swept away in our time (and I am seventy-eight!). It will fail because its every major premise will fail.

Yet, should our feeble efforts nought avail,   Should, after all, our best endeavours fail;   Still, let some mercy in your bosoms live,   And, if you can't applaud, at least forgive.

I'm fascinated by failure, and I'm fascinated by finality. Shakespeare's historical plays are more universal than his comedies because they relate to the finality of life. Without finality, life would not be beautiful.

You are a sorry creature, Flashman. I have failed in you. But even to you I must say, this is not the end. You cannot continue here, but you are young, Flashman, and there is time yet. Though your sins be as red as crimson, yet shall they be as white as snow. You have fallen very low, but you can be raised up again …

Everything was going my way. I was happily marching into the history books. Then it all just fell apart.

Self esteem is the dough that makes us rise to the top, or fall to the bottom of the heap ~ Tiffani S. Hall, American Poet & Writer

An autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.

America is very, very cruel to its artists. It doesn't give them a chance for growth. It doesn't give them elbow room for change. There's no room at all for failure." - Carol Marcus Matthau

Nature gave men two ends — one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most.

I rose too high, loved too hard, dared too much. I tried to grasp a star, overreached, and fell.

Every man should lose a battle in his youth, so he does not lose a war when he is old.

Chaos isn't a pit. Chaos is a ladder. Many who try to climb it fail, and never get to try again. The fall breaks them. And some are given a chance to climb, but refuse. They cling to the realm, or love, or the gods…illusions. Only the ladder is real. The climb is all there is. But they'll never know this. Not until it's too late.

You are grown so very great now, yet the higher a man climbs the farther he has to fall.

Nothing tarnishes a hero as much as failure.

Yet the higher a man climbs the further he has to fall.

He could not even get off his own horse, except to fall.

the higher a man climbs the farther he has to fall.

Sorcery is the sauce fools spoon over failure to hide the flavor of their own incompetence

La brujería es la salsa que vierten los idiotas sobre el fracaso para ocultar el sabor de su incompetencia" -Tyrion Lannister

Happiness is the only sanction of life where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

Strange, isn't it? To have dedicated one's life to a certain venture, neglecting other aspects of one's life, only to have that venture, in the end, amount to nothing at all, the products of one's labors ultimately forgotten?

Sin is the failure to reach your potential," he wrote. "Guilt is the unlived life.