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Quotes About Failure

meet with Triumph and Disaster, And treat those two impostors just the same.
~ Winston S. Churchill
a stone / which in its own archaic, simpleminded way / sees life as a chain of failed attempts.
~ Wis?awa Szymborska
Even the good guys,' she said, 'can't win all the time.
~ Unknown
I failed to make the chess team because of my height.
~ Woody Allen
Se di tanto in tanto non hai degli insuccessi, è segno che non stai facendo nulla di davvero innovativo.
~ Woody Allen
Thus the coming of Islam seems to be nothing less than a divine judgement on the Byzantine world for its failure to fulfil its mission. And the cause of that failure was the same as that for which St. Ephrem, the greatest of the Syrian Fathers, reproached the Greeks in the fourth century - the unbridled lust for theological controversy which made the most sacred dogmas of the faith slogans of party warfare, sacrificed charity and unity to party spirit.
~ Unknown
Every actor has to make terrible films from time to time, but the trick is never to be terrible in them.
~ Christopher Lee
A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
~ Christopher Morley
I admit, I was afraid to love. Not just love, but to love her. For she was a stunning mystery. She carried things deep inside her that no one has yet to understand, and I, I was afraid to fail, like the others. She was the ocean and i was just a boy who loved the waves but was completely terrified to swim.
~ Christopher Poindexter
P?catul e?ec existen?ial.
~ Unknown
There's tons of creative people in television that have one failure after another, and they just step up higher. I could never get over that. When I had a failure, there was no such thing as just getting over it.
~ Chuck Barris
It feels so exhausting to be so bad at something I loved so much.
~ Chuck Klosterman
I really love idiot, enlightened characters - these characters who fail to engage with the drama of their immediate circumstances they fail to be reactive and enrolled by drama as it happens around them.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
God leads you through failure so that when He works you will know for certain you are not responsible for the success.
~ Chuck Smith
Being afraid of making a mistake,is making a mistake
~ Unknown
Success has made failures of many men.
~ Cindy Adams
Bagaimanapun orang-orang yang punya dosa tidak akan berhasil. Mereka selalu jatuh ke dalam air - St. Petrus
~ Cindy Adams
Todos los hombres tienen que destruir su vida. Y según la manera como lo hagan se llamarán triunfadores o fracasados.
~ Cioran
It is important that fear of failure should not prevent your son from experiencing life to the full.
~ Unknown
I always thought I'd get farther. I'd like to blame the world for what I've failed to do, but the failure - the failure that sometimes washes over me as anger, makes me so angry I could spit - is all mine, in the end. What made my obstacles insurmountable, what consigned me to mediocrity, is me, just me. I thought for so long, forever, that I was strong enough -- or I misunderstood what strength was.
~ Claire Messud
Yeah, you have to struggle, and yeah, sometimes you fail, but how you react to that failure is where the choice comes in. You can either get pissed and give up, or you can ask yourself, 'How can I make it better?
~ Claire Thompson
everyone is scared sometimes to do something. They don't think they can do it. They don't want to fail. They don't want to make a fool of themselves. That's when the courage really kicks in.
~ Claire Thompson
Reality is the raw material, language is the way I go in search of it - and the way I do not find it. But it is from searching and not finding that what I did not know was born, and which I instantly recognise. Language is my human effort. My destiny is to search and my destiny is to return empty-handed. But - I return with the unsayable. The unsayable can only be given to me through the failure of my language. Only when the construction fails, can I obtain what I could not achieve.
~ Clarice Lispector
A deseroização é o grande fracasso de uma vida.
~ Clarice Lispector