Quotes About Failure

Sometimes I succeed, sometimes I fail, but every day is a clean slate and a fresh opportunity

When I thought about why I was sometimes reluctant to push myself, I realized that it was because I was afraid of failure - but in order to have more success, I needed to be willing to accept more failure.

I enjoy the fun of failure. It's fun to fail, I kept repeating. It's part of being ambitious; it's part of being creative. If something is worth doing, it's worth doing badly

When you decide to hit rock bottom, humiliation is part of the deal.

Failure is when a player does not have a good training session, when the coach relaxes and stops caring, when the team doesn't care either about whatever is going on,' Manel Estiarte said.

Me costó superar el trance. Deprimida me aislé en casa a rumiar mi fracaso. Encima tuve que bregar con el enojo de Claudio por mi desnudez. Amigos suyos habían ido a las funciones. «Ellos vieron lo que solo debía ver yo», protestó. Estaba tan abatida que no tuve arrestos para enfrentar su machismo, su posesividad, su ego herido o lo que fuera.

Prefiero ser conocido por mis grandes fracasos que por mis mediocres éxitos», citaba a uno de sus novelistas favoritos.

Fallarás el cien por ciento de los tiros que no intentes».

Neeva looked at the puddle of Christ's tears on the floor. When the power of Jesus fails you, then you know you truly are shit out of luck

What is life, in the end, but a series of small victories and larger failures?

When the power of Jesus fails you, then you know you truly are shit out of luck.

When individuals blunder, it is unfortuante and their families go down. When rulers fail, it is a national tragedy

We have also realized that our biggest failure over the last fifty years has been of administrative and institutional incompetence and our inability to implement rather than of ideology.

The cowardice that keeps silent in the face of the sufferings of the poor and that offers any number of adroit justifications represents an especially serious failure of Latin American Christians.

The poet and poetess have always had a rough time of it in the Republic. It has ever been their endemic luck to starve, become a Harvard professor, commit suicide, lose their reading glasses before an audience of sophomores, go upon the people a la Barnum, and serve as homework in state universities, where they could in nowise get a position and where their presence usually scatters the English faculty like a truant officer among the Amish.

The character of greatness must be measured in two ways, else the measurement is flawed. First, and by far most popular of all, is by one's ability to succeed in times of trial where others may fail. But of no less importance, and perhaps foundational to any form of greatness, is one's willingness to start over in spite of failure, when success seems farthest away.

Ambitious failure, magnificent failure, is a very good thing.

Constancio C. Vigil: "Desdichado del hombre que finca su fortuna en la caída de un árbol".

Crear un "país de leyes" —un país donde se cumplan las leyes— es el más viejo propósito de los gobiernos de México. Es también el fracaso político más repetido de nuestra historia.

Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.

The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.

But the experiment had never stopped. "There was the transition, very well defined," Swinney said. "So that was great. Then we went on, to look for the next one." There the expected Landau sequence broke down. Experiment failed to confirm theory. At the next transition the flow jumped all the way to a confused state with no distinguishable cycles at all. No new frequencies, no gradual buildup of complexity. "What we found was, it became chaotic.

It was still quite early in the morning and perhaps I wasn't feeling quite strong enough to have the evidence of my failure thrust before my eyes.

First job I had to do was pass the stomach tube on a horse. Got it into the trachea instead of the oesophagus. Couple of quick pumps and down went the horse with a hell of a crash—dead as a hammer. That's when I started these grey hairs.