Quotes About Failure

Knowing is better than wondering, waking is better than sleeping, and even your biggest failure beats the hell out of never trying.

If you happen to succeed, don't take it to the head. If you happen to fail, don't take it to the heart.

On the road to success; there's a curve called failure, a loop called confusion, speed bumps called friends & red lights called enemies.

Life is the best school. God is the best teacher. Problem is the best assignment. Failure is the best revision.

It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

Marcel's attempts to interpret Albertine are constantly deflected—by Aimé's unreliable letters, by Albertine's misinterpreted telegrams, by Marcel's failure to recognize Gilberte at the Guermantes. All of these misreadings could be seen as part of a general comedy or tragedy of social misunderstanding and psychological failure to grasp the nature of other people, as well as one's own self.

So rarely do we meet either with easy success or with irreversible defeat.

Medicine, when it fails to cure, busies itself with changing the sense of verbs and pronouns.

having the slightest connection either in intensity or in quality with the unimaginable hell that Françoise had allowed me to glimpse when she said, "Miss Albertine has left." In order to represent an unknown situation, the imagination borrows elements already known, and for this reason fails to represent it.

If at first you don't succeed, blame your parents.

And of course, there is always the F for failure. F for failing falling festering failure. F for fault. F for forgotten.

Mitt Romney understands free enterprise, he has worked in it. He has seen companies succeed and he has seen them fail, too. He knows what people think about when they invest their money.

All our efforts must be directed towards an end, or we will act in vain. If it is not the right end, we will fail utterly.

Death and life, success and failure, pain and pleasure, wealth and poverty, all these happen to good and bad alike, and they are neither noble nor shameful – and hence neither good nor bad.

You cannot learn very much about excellence from studying failure.

Nothing succeeds, they say, like success. And certainly nothing fails like failure.

He told conductors how to conduct and painters how to paint. As Edward said unkindly, he was "the most brilliant failure in history."33

For better or worse, it is the "three wrong" that sticks in one's memory after the math test is returned, not the "seventeen right." I wonder what happens when a child hears a recitation of his failures day after day, year after year? Do you have a strong negative internal voice that is critical of yourself and others? Where did that voice come from? It is the result of our own upbringings that tracked our failures rather than our successes.

There is no faster way to harden my determination than to assume I will fail at something.

havde givet mig dyb modvilje mod mig selv: der var ikke nogen, der kunne elske mig, jeg kunne ikke få nogen til at synes om mig, jeg var kun til at smide væk, afvise. Derfor oplevede jeg alle opbrud, alle genvordigheder, al adskillelse som forstødelse. Bare jeg kom for sent til toget, begyndte tingen af røre på sig. Jeg var et mislykket menneske og derfor mislykkedes alt for mig,

Perfectionism at its core isn't about high standards. It's about fear. Fear of failure. Fear of looking stupid, fear of making a mistake, fear of being judged, criticized, and ridiculed. It's the fear that one simple fact might be true: You're just not good enough.

Fate has decreed no stability, only short-lived prosperity, unendurable adversity, now success, now failure.' John Skelton

I fear being like everyone I hate, I fear failure, I fear losing control. I love balancing between chaos and control with everything I do. I always have a fear of going one way or another, getting lost in something, or losing everything to get lost in. And I fear being a completely acceptable sheep in society.

To fall is not to fail. To fail is to never fall because I never got up in the first place.