Quotes About Failure

the only thing worse than failing to do what was demanded of her was actually doing it.

But failing isn't proof that nothing matters or that we were fools to care. We fail even though things matter very much; it's the possibility of failure that makes them matter even more.

The firs day of high school is bullshit anyways. It's supposed to be about new beginnings, but really all it does is wreck your life. And set you up for failure. And make you realize everything is completely and totally fucked.

where love and desire are concerned, there are no adequate examples; and all of our objects must bear the burden of exemplifying and failing what drives our attachment to them.

Life can be about taking chances and finding really great things and yes, failing sometimes. Or it can be about wondering what if because you never dared to try.

The moral of the story isn't don't ever be afraid. Or even don't screw up. It's that screwing up isn't the end of the world.

Laurence Bergreen

until the device failed to respond. Santiago was now out of control

If you have congruence, integrity, and consistency, then know that everything is happening according to plan. Do not give up because life's events and occurrences may seem to indicate failure. Never make conclusions based on appearances. Like a theatrical production, a huge amount of activity occurs outside your view (awareness). There, if it seems your good is delayed, do not assume you have made a mistake. Press on and know that unseen forces are turning the great gears.

I'm a secular priest ordained by training, experience, and, most important, the willingness to accept the mantle of command. That willingness encompasses the realization that failure is easy, and such failure could kill me or, worse, kill someone else.

Autonomy and a sense of independence are the core capacities that have failed to develop fully in those who exhibit this survival style.

My failure, during the first five or six years of my art training, to get set in the right direction, and the disappointment which it caused me, drove me the more persistently into writing as an alternative.

The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought

The incompetent with nothing to do can still make a mess of it.

Incompetence," he argued, "knows no barrier of time or place.

Incompetence knows no barriers of time or place.

Such an extreme policy will not be generally tolerated. So, to avoid the accumulation of incompetents, administrators have evolved the plan of promoting everyone, the incompetent as well as the competent. They find psychological justification for this policy by saying that it spares students the painful experience of failure.

Success and failure. We think of them as opposites, but they're really not. They're companions — the hero and the sidekick.

Rules existed for a reason: if you followed them, you would succeed; if you didn't, you might burn the world to the ground.

Afailure is the misbehavior of the program, resulting from the program encountering a fault. Failures occur

The real failure is not the man who does not succeed in great things who ever has? but in little things, making a home, keeping a friend, keeping a woman happy, earning his living like anyone else. He is the most miserable failure.

Katkada žena prona?e olupinu i odlu?i od nje napraviti zdrava ?ovjeka. To joj ponekad uspije. Katkada žena susretne zdrava ?ovjeka i odlu?i od njega napraviti olupinu. To joj uvijek uspije.

I was terrified to do 'G.I. Joe.' I had no idea how to do one of those movies. I was kind of scared. You know, if one of those doesn't work, it's a huge hit on your career. People are like, 'Well he couldn't make a $170 million movie work. I don't want him in my film.'