Quotes About Failure

I kind of tried my hand at sports and school, and I wasn't very apt at either one of those things.

We are all victims of what is done to us. We can either use that as an excuse for failure, knowing that if we fail it isn't really our fault, or we can say, 'I want something better than that, I deserve something better than that, and i'm going to try to make myself a life worth living.

Extraordinary individuals fail often and sometimes dramatically. Rather than giving up, however, they are challenged to learn from their setbacks and to convert defeats into opportunities.

I took the route favoured by all worldly failures and became a spiritual success.

Success can be harder to take than failure in a lot of ways. It brings with it a responsibility. You have to learn that all the highs don't last forever. For every high, there's a corresponding low. It's why young kids often go to pieces. When they get so popular they can't go out of their hotel rooms, that's when they turn to drugs. Success can be very dangerous, very heady.

In that case, that is, given the past failure and poor prospects of analytic epistemology, Quine recommends that epistemology simply be replaced by psychology

When companies fail, or fail to grow, it's almost always because they don't invest in the people, the systems, and the processes they need.

Being entrepreneurial means you will fail. You just have to be willing to listen to people who tell you something is broken, and then fix it.

To err is human. To blame someone else is politics.

The only reason my work seems to be eclectic up to a certain period is because I was a failure as an actor.

With age, you see people fail more. You see yourself fail more. How do you keep that fearlessness of a kid? You keep going. Luckily, I'm not afraid to make a fool of myself.

I feel like a hostage to fortune. Not that I am complaining. I wanted to play the role. But in truth I didn't think the show would be such a success. OK, I thought it would fail. Not because it was bad. I was confident it was good, but plenty of good things just sort of wither on the vine.

Frodo 'failed'. It is possible that once the ring was destroyed he had little recollection of the last scene. But one must face the fact: the power of Evil in the world is not finally resistible by incarnate creatures, however 'good'; and the Writer of the Story is not one of us. Letter 191 From a letter to Miss J. Burn (draft)

The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures.

A free society can survive only with men and women of integrity. Mediocrity can destroy us just as surely as perils far more famous. In a society that is willing to accept mediocrity, the opportunity for failure is boundless.

His failure to enter the Academy and his mother's death, both occurring within less than four months in late 1907, amounted to a crushing double blow for the young Hitler.

This was defeat. This was failure; a quiet, ashen world. True humility and obedience, where the knee is bowed to the inevitable, the ring is kissed without pride or restraint.

Any AI smart enough to pass a Turing test is smart enough to know to fail it.

Fifteen years, and all he had to show were an amount of self-pity and a busted marriage with an innocent daughter hanging between them. It was more disgusting than sad.

THE FALL No matter how high I climbed, Somehow I always fell

But when I got to what I thought was the finish line, at the end of that hustling road, there was no winning—

La clase de hombre que, tirando una piedra al suelo, fallaría.

Había fracasado tantas veces que uno también se cansa de fracasar, así como uno se cansa de vencer y de estar sano y de llevar una vida normal.

The official cause of death was listed as heart failure, aggravated by acute alcoholism.