Quotes About Failure

The automatic mechanism then duplicates this successful response on future trials. It has "learned" how to respond successfully. It forgets its failures, and repeats the successful action without any further conscious thought—that is, as a habit.

I failed once in the past, so I will probably fail in the future" is neither logical nor rational. To conclude "I can't" in advance, without trying, and in the absence of any evidence to support the inevitability of failure, is not rational. We should be more like the man who was asked if he could play the piano. "I don't know," he said. "What do you mean you don't know?" he was asked. "I have never tried," he replied.

It just didn't work out. I was wrong, he was wrong. It just got all messed up.

The kind of trouble that was the downfall of many men.

Maybe it's better to adhere to the standards of heaven than to those of this world. Failure doesn't upset you, since you can always rely on eternity; you find your justifications in reasons beyond yourself. Personal loss is less important. And pain. And men. And the present day. Everything continues into eternity, faceless and vast, sleepily torpid and solemnly indifferent. Like the sea: it cannot lament the innumerable deaths that continually occur in it.

One question can make all the difference between your success or failure. A winner asks how it will be done. A loser asks why it cannot be done. Asking how to succeed, helps you find a way. Asking why you will fail, gives you an excuse to stay.

And didn't it always go like that--body parts not lining up the way you wanted them to, all of it a little bit off, as if the world itself were an animated sequence of longing and envy and self-hatred and grandiosity and failure and success, a strange and endless cartoon loop that you couldn't stop watching, because, despite all you knew by now, it was still so interesting.

Jill told him that he just didn't understand what it meant to have been so promising your whole life and now to be so disappointing in the end.

the Iraq war was the Ishtar of wars.

The Ishtar of cartoons," wrote the Reporter. Every failure was the Ishtar of something

A high school play was a time of high emotion and meaning; if you were in a play, you felt as if the play mattered. The success or failure of any production seemed like a real reflection on you personally.

And didn't it always go like that - body parts not quite lining up the way you wanted them to, all of it a little bit off, as if the world itself were an animated sequence of longing and envy and self-hatred and grandiosity and failure and success, a strange and endless cartoon loop that you couldn't stop watching, because, despite all you knew by now, it was still so interesting.

Is it optimism or madness that keeps one forging ahead despite failure after failure?

It is optimism or madness that keeps one forging ahead despite failure after failure?

Sometimes, you ruined things and couldn't fix them.

I heard that he had all these pictures of you . . .' 'Well, I heard you flunked out of school.

A doctor's job, like a gambler's, is intimately tied up with failure; the house always wins over time.

A society which has poor people on its streets is a failed society!

Birds teach us something very important: To whatever height you rise, you will finally come down to the ground!

Both half success and half failure must be considered as a full failure!

From the port of ideas, not only the most clever ones put out to sea and conquer the world but also the most stupid ones do!

Make no cry in failure! Make no noise in success! In failure, silence; in success, silence! Fly with the same attitude both in the high and in the low altitudes!

On the roads of failure, it is not uncommon to see the tears of the talented; and in the land of success, to hear the victorious screams of the incompetent!

Open your eyes and look around carefully at the moments when you think you have failed, because the lighthouse of the success mysteriously appears amongst the fog at those very moments!