Quotes About Failure

Anyway, to maintain the right perspective, sweetie, we always should be at risk of failure, the possibility of making wrong choices.

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 as a failure.

Every failure hollows out my heart a little further, and no success is able to refill any of that emptiness.

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, we are beyond mercy.

what might have looked like courage proved to be a deficit of common sense and an excess of self-importance, too strong a faith in his genius and superiority—not courage at all, but the rash actions of an ordinary narcissist incapable of imagining that he might fail.

Destiny struggles to reassert the pattern that was meant to be. But sometimes, happily it fails. ... Destiny struggles to reassert the pattern that was meant to be, (...) And sometimes, happily, it succeeds.

What did she do?" "Ruined everything. Out of pride.

Ultimately, failure can be the father of success if one learns from the errors made.

Failing to plan is planning to fail.

then we fail to be wise.

How many wisely conceived projects have failed and will fail in the future! How many insane projects have succeeded and will succeed!

And he added that prudence in no way assured us of success but consoled us and excused us in failure.

Does everything you touch turn to shit? Does this happen to you every time? No wonder they call me Fuckhead. It's a name that's going to stick.

Corruption is the primary reason societies fail to thrive; societies in which corruption is held in check prosper economically, socially, and morally. Nothing explains the success or failure of countries more than does the presence or absence of corruption.

Nothing in life is worthwhile unless you take risks. Fall forward. Every failed experiment is one step closer to success.

Every dark cloud has a silver lining—conversely, the silver lining frames a dark cloud. Or as chapter 58 of Tao Te Ching expresses it: Misfortune is what fortune depends upon Fortune is where misfortune hides beneath Yin contains yang; yang contains yin. Every failure harbors the hidden seed of future success; every triumph contains the covert cause of future defeat. Thus, Sai Ong's father isn't mortified by bad news—but neither is he overelated

Who is the man who can speak to the strong? Where is the fool who can talk to the wise? Men who are dead now have learnt this long, Bitter is wisdom that fails when it tries.

Every word I have written took the wrong approach. I

ONE DAY, COCK OF THE WALK—NEXT DAY, A FEATHER DUSTER

My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.

Whether she had acted from immature spite or from a true passion, I could never know. In either case, she had failed. I had survived. And Jamie was mine.

I tell my team you have to aim for success, but assume failure.

Spoiler alert: I did not become an astronaut.

Anyone can have a bad night and anyone can have a bad attempt at comedy.