Quotes About Failure

As WArden Lawes once said of convicts, no man can be called a failure until he has tried something he really likes, and fails at it.

The very reasons sometimes that you make a film are the reasons for its failure.

Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure.

Coping with competition requires understanding that winning and losing are always temporary occurrences. Children who learn to lose without being devastated and use failure experiences to grow will begin to achieve in the classroom and in society.

I suppose some editors are failed writers - but so are most writers.

The people who succeed the most are the people who have failed the most, because they are people who have tried the most.

I enter a time of much peril, and am more likely to fail and die than succeed and live." "Those who succeed and those who fail are both destined to die.

My film directorial career has been nothing but repetition of one failure after another!

If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.

The choice is a simple one: Learn to fail, or fail to learn.

The pain associated with the fear of failure is often stronger than the pain of the failure itself

Whatever happens, whether you succeed or you fail, people with high expectations always feel better, because how we feel — when we get dumped or we win employee of the month — depends on how we interpret that event.

According to Hegel, the slave fully acknowledges the self-consciousness of the master and she dissolves herself or upholds herself as their relationship dictates and evolves to the struggle unto death. Although this struggle is a failure, according to Hegel, if someone actually dies.

I am pro-choice, but I find that abortion is a failure of the feminist establishment. With every kind of birth control available in the world, abortion is not something to be proud of. If you need an abortion, you've failed.

Various therapists and psychiatrists have diagnosed various things along the way, but what it comes down to is that Dina is no good at life. It takes a knack that she's never quite got hold of.

Everyone should be impeached," Ellen said. "For being so bad at living.

If you accept failure, then you will identify with being defeated.

You will remember that it was St. Augustine who said that if a man wished to improve the world about him he must make himself a better individual—which is the most gigantic task any man ever faced, and the majority fail in it.

It was something I thought of when I was talking with my sister," he says. Derek's sister teaches children born with Down syndrome. "She mentioned that some parents don't want to push their kids too much, because they're afraid of exposing them to the possibility of failure. The parents mean well, but they're keeping their kids from reaching their full potential when they coddle them.

The problem isn't that I've hit rock bottom. The problem is that I haven't.

The lessons of history were hard to ignore. Every democracy ever known had failed, beginning with the Greeks twenty-four centuries earlier. They had succumbed, one by one, to all the well-known vices of the people: corruption, greed, lust, ethnic hatred, distractibility, or simply a fatal indifference.

When you fail to hold out God's standard, you rob your children of the mercy of the gospel.

Whether you are watching a video or playing a game, whether you are doing work or fielding an unwanted phone call, whether you are being successful or smarting from failure—in the ordinary context of daily living, you show the power and viability of Christian faith.

The law of God is not easy for natural man. Its standard is high and cannot be achieved apart from God's supernatural grace. God's law teaches us our need of grace. When you fail to hold out God's standard, you rob your children of the mercy of the gospel.