Quotes About Failure

For it is written that if the wise man appears always stupid, his failures do not disappoint, and his success gives pleasant surprise.

Success in America doesn't require any special talent or any kind of extra effort. You just have to be consistent and not fuck up. That's how most people fail. They can't stand the pressure of getting what they want, so when they see that they are getting close they engineer some sort of fuckup to undermine their success.

You see, my plan is working. For it is written that 'if the wise man always appears stupid, his failures do not disappoint, and his success gives pleasant surprise.

if the wise man always appears stupid, his failures do not disappoint, and his success gives pleasant surprise.

You are a disappointment to disappointments.

For it is written that 'if the wise man always appears stupid, his failures do not disappoint, and his success gives pleasant surprise.

La ignorancia, el miedo y el odio: ésos son nuestros enemigos. Niégalos con todas tus fuerzas, Eragon, porque si no, fracasaremos.

W]hat an artist does is fail," he writes. "The actualization fails to meet, equal, the intuition . . . there is no such thing as a 'successful artist.

As they say, the first step in fixing something is getting it to break.

Among engineers generally, the most common form of ambition—the one made most socially acceptable—has been the desire to become a manager. If you don't become one by a certain age, then in the eyes of many of your peers you become a failure. Among computer engineers, I think, the wish to manage must be a virtual instinct.

Every event has a purpose and every setback a lesson. Failure is essential to personal expansion. It brings inner growth and a whole host of psychic rewards. Never regret your past. Rather embrace it as the teacher it is

I had reason to believe that the administration was a little afraid to have a decisive battle at that time, for fear it might go against us and have a bad effect on the November elections. The convention which had met and made its nomination of the Democratic candidate for the presidency had declared the war a failure. Treason was talked as boldly in Chicago at that convention as ever been in Charleston.

Translation is the art of failure.

Losers, like autodidacts, always know much more than winners. If you want to win, you need to know just one thing and not waste your time on anything else: the pleasures of erudition are reserved for losers. The more a person knows, the more things have gone wrong.

The book has to give the idea of another kind of newspaper, has to show how I labored away for a year to create a model of journalism independent of all pressure, implying that the venture failed because it was impossible to have a free voice

The others believed me wise because I won, but they didn't know the many instances in which I have been foolish because I lost, and they didn't know that a few seconds before winning I wasn't sure I wouldn't lose.

Y cuando vives cultivando esperanzas imposibles, ya eres un perdedor. Y cuando te das cuenta, te hundes.

It is certainly human to make mistakes, but there are some human beings who make more than others, and they are called fools.

Zawsze tak jest - je?li ci sie nie powiedzie, szukasz kogo?, aby oskar?aj?c go, usprawiedliwi? w?asne niedo??stwo.

traición. Y es que siempre pasa lo mismo, cuando fracasas en algo, buscas siempre alguien a quien acusar de tu incapacidad. Pero qué traición, me decía, es que no sabéis cómo se combate, pues anda que hacer la revolución…

And anyone who nurtures impossible hopes is already a loser. Once you come to realize it, you just give up.

Uvek je neophodno pripisati nekome krivicu za sopstvene neuspehe, diktature uvek pronalaze spoljašnjeg neprijatelja da bi njihove vlastite pristalice zbile svoje redove. Kao što je neko ve? rekao, za svaki složeni problem postoji jednostavno rešenje koje je uvek pogrešno.

There can be no failure if there really is a Plan. Defeated you may be, but never through any fault of your own. To bow to a cosmic will is no shame. You are not a coward; you are a martyr.

If you fail to have an erection the first time, you're impotent for the rest of your life.