Quotes About Failure

TRIED SO HARD TO KEEP THEM FROM FAILING THAT I FAILED TO GIVE THEM WHAT THEY NEEDED TO SUCCEED

Happiness is not something that you feel when good things happen in your life. It is not something you feel when people say good things about you. It is not something you feel when you win an award. It is a state of living – present in grief or celebration, success or failure, stress or relaxation, suffering or pleasure.

Don't ask. We're all but done for in any case, taking that Fiona couldn't hit a cow's arse with a banjo, and Paddy and Maureen both cheat like tinkers at a fair. What are you talking about? Why would anybody hit a cow with a banjo? He only smiled. The point is, Fiona couldn't so we'll be done soon enough.

Replicating human beings in a lab, selecting traits, eliminating others. Who decides what are the parameters? What of the failures, as there must be in any sort of experimentation of procedures.

The greatest barrier of success is the fear of failure.

What more is required than a kind of stupid, insensitive doggedness, as lover, as writer, together with a readiness to fail and fail again?

Parecía fuera de lugar, como un pájaro, una de esas aves que no vuelan; o como un científico abstraído que ha salido por error de su laboratorio. También tenía un aire de sordidez, un aire de fracaso.

No offense-but until I see it, I'm not going to believe it. And that is why you will fail. Adrian cursed and hit the door. Great, you've got him channeling Yoda again. Can we get moving before he levitates my fucking bike?

Kind of like winning the fifty-meter ass-stroke in the Loserlympics

The sense that in his mother's view, he had let down his family just by being who he was… was a failure of acceptance that he was never going to get over. He just wanted to live, honestly and out front, with no apology. Like everyone else. To love who he loved, be who he was… but society had a different standard.

As the voice of the wizard continued to pound at him, he felt the ivy of the past overtaking him once again, all the things he had failed to do, all the differences he hadn't made, all the care he'd tried to take, but had fallen short on…and now there was a new layer. Cormia's layer.

The poor thing had cowered away from the sides of the pan, blackened on top, and developed drying cracks. It was inedible, better suited to the construction supply trade than to a dinner plate. A few dozen more of these and some mortar and she'd have that wall she wanted around her terrace.

La verdad era que... estaba enamorado de ella. Totalmente, sin fisuras ni dudas, sin posibilidad de arrepentirse. Con ella hasta la muerte. Y aunque fracasó, aunque había ofrecido en vano su corazón, eso no importaba.

Failure has a thousand explanations. Success doesn't need one.

At first I thought it was a fear of failure. Now I think you're afraid to succeed.

You can't win unless you try to win, but you can lose by trying not to lose.

I believe that Icarus was not failing as he fell, but just coming to the end of his triumph.

Galatea Dunkel was a tenacious loser.

I'm like a thinner younger Major Hoople who really had a small taste of early success but then lost it and came home to live off his mother and sister but goes on writing and acting like an author

Invention requires two things: One, the ability to try a lot of experiments, and two, not having to live with the collateral damage of failed experiments.

In our sport, there's only two people, so if you're not winning, then you're losing.

Writing is frustration - it's daily frustration, not to mention humiliation. It's just like baseball: you fail two-thirds of the time.

I think there are definitely two types of student: the academic kids and the 50% who fail. It's very clear to see - it's fact. We're not doing enough for those who fail; they need a more physical, tactile approach, involving people skills, team-building, problem-solving, building things.

I've screwed up and I've overcommitted and it's typical of me.