Quotes About Failure

But when I hear other kinds of discussion, especially the talk of rich businessmen like you, I get bored and feel sorry for you and your friends, because you think you're doing something important, when you're not. Perhaps you regard me as a failure, and I think you're right. But I don't THINK you're a failure, I KNOW you are.

Failure is hard, but success is far more dangerous. If you're successful at the wrong thing, the mix of praise and money and opportunity can lock you in forever.

Failure's hard, but success is far more dangerous. If you're successful at the wrong thing, the mix of praise and money and opportunity can lock you in forever.

All too many churchmen view the undisciplined & amoral products of statist education as evidences of the failure of these schools. On the contrary, they are evidences of their success.

See? My plans don't all suck. Just most of them.

Hello! Your dear father is unfortunately very dead, he called. And you said my dispersal system would never work!

I've failed you, he said. You just stopped the boy. That's not what I meant. I know what you meant, Oliver. You count too many things as failures when they are merely setbacks. She beckoned him up, and he stood, still intimately close to her. She didn't seem bothered. I feel safer with my old enemy beside me.

There was a damp crack as the flesh and bones of the dead finally failed, and the gate slammed shut.

need to remember my failures as much as my successes; they teach me to think harder about the risks I'm taking. Because not all those risks are mine.

To have risked so much in our efforts to mold nature to our satisfaction and yet to have failed in achieving our goal would indeed by the final irony. Yet this, it seems, is our situation.

I turn the key and I turn the key and I turn the key and she doesn't do a damn thing.

We need to be willing to chance failure in order to succeed.

My mother was so angered by love's failures, Mary, that she navigated with spite as her compass.

Love didn't fail, Constantina. Only one love did. It failed because we asked too much of it, he and I. We each, in our own time, asked it to remake the world.

I told her: I act such that love will not fail again as it failed us before.

Those who celebrate failure will not be around to help today's students celebrate their jobs flipping burgers.

Those who celebrate failure will not be around to help today's students celebrate their jobs flipping burgers...Someone has to tell children if they are behind, and lay out a plan of attack to help them catch up.

When Mary Shelley took a local legend based on truth and crafted fiction from it, she'd made Victor a tragic figure and killed him off. He understood her dramatic purpose for giving him a death scene, but he loathed her for portraying him as tragic and a failure. Her judgement of his work was arrogant. What else of consequence did she ever write? And of the two, who was dead - and who was not?

POD is DOA.

a wasted opportunity wasn't just a missed chance, but was a wound to your future. Miss too many opportunities, thus sustaining too many wounds, and you wouldn't have a future at all.

They spent billions on the problem, with no effect other than to greatly enrich their friends and create more homeless people.

victimhood was seductive, a release from responsibility and caring: Fear would be transmuted into weary resignation; failure would no longer generate guilt but, instead, would spawn a comforting self-pity.

In all our lives, however, there are many days when we die a little, when we are wounded by loss or failure, or by fear, or by seeing the suffering of others for whom we are able to offer only pity, for whom we are powerless to offer aid, who are beyond mercy.

Acknowledge your fear, odd one. Fearlessness is for the insane and the arrogant. You are neither. Those who rely on you for their lives will be well served only if you fear what you should fear. You are a unique soul, a child of grace, but you can still fail yourself and others.