Quotes About Failure

I left him thinking it over. If I were a bookie, I should feel justified in offering a hundred to eight against. You can't have approached him properly. I might have known you would muck it up, said young Bingo. Which, considering what I had been through for his sake, struck me as a good bit sharper than the serpent's tooth.

A drawback to success in life is that failure, when it does come, acquires an exaggerated importance.

Writing is a failure. Writing is not only useless, it's spoiled paper.

There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of faliure.

A beggar cannot renounce wealth," Master would say. "If a man laments: 'My business has failed; my wife has left me; I will renounce all and enter a monastery,' to what worldly sacrifice is he referring? He did not renounce wealth and love; they renounced him!

Fear is born of the thought of failure when one is attached to success. Anger is born of frustrated desire.

You should transfer your attention from failure to success, from worry to calmness, from mental wanderings to concentration, from restlessness to peace, and from peace to the divine bliss within. When you attain this state of Self-realization the purpose of your life will have been gloriously fulfilled.

What made his face burn was a sense of failure, the yearning for freedom that remained unfulfilled and the acute realisation that he didn't know anything.

Yet all around me, in the grinning faces of my students, I could see a crime, so ugly that it could be interpreted as a condemnation of an entire society, a nation be damned, a history of wickedness—these children before me did not have a goddam chance of sharing in the incredible wealth and affluence of the country that claimed them, a country that failed them, a country that needed but did not deserve deliverance.

There is no loneliness like that of a failed marriage. – Alexander Theroux

Leaders make a lot of decisions, they invariably make a lot of mistakes- more mistakes than an average person. Average person, whose decisions are never questioned and their words never challenged, keep making mistakes over and over again, because they never learn from their failures or their misjudgments. Only humble leaders learn and grow from their mistakes

The tragedy was not even the first drink, because the first drink was not the first resort but the last. There'd had to be first the failure of everything else—of her and Sam, of his friends, of his hope, of his interests, really.

Life is a long failure of understanding . . . a long, mistaken shutting of the heart.

Therein lay the flaw, and the flaw of life itself. Life is a long failure of understanding, Mrs Palmer thought, a long mistaken shutting of the heart.

This lack of coverage had been convenient for the US and other Western governments because it enabled them to play down the extent to which the "war on terror" had failed so catastrophically in the years since 9/11. This failure is also masked by deceptions and self-deceptions on the part of governments.

In school you're rewarded for not making mistakes.

Sponsors dropped him, his wife left him, and his golf skills suffered greatly.

that my lack of experience, not my lack of ability, was the reason for the failure.

Our most serious failure today is the inability to provide effective practical guidance as to how to live the life of Jesus. And I believe that is due to this very real loss of biblical realism for our lives

Any voice that promises total exemption from suffering and failure is most certainly not God's voice. In recent years innumerable spokespeople for God have offered ways we can use God and his Bible as guarantees of health, success and wealth.

Our most serious failure today is the inability to provide effective practical guidance as to how to live the lifwe of Jesus. And I believe that is due to this very real loss of biblical realism for our lives.

I believe one reason why so many people do in fact fail to immerse themselves in the words of the New Testament, and neglect or even avoid them, is that the life they see there is so unlike what they know from their own experience.

falling short to deliver responses is one of the most popular blunders that innovators create.

Emotion links our internal and external worlds. To be aware of what we feel can open us to questions we would rather ignore. For many of us, that is precisely why it is easier not to feel. But a failure to feel leaves us barren and distant from God and others.