Quotes About Failure

Men in general don't know how to live: they have no true familiarity with life, and never feel entirely at ease in it, so they pursue different projects, more or less ambitious and more or less grandiose – generally speaking, of course, they fail and reach the conclusion that they would have been better off just living, but as a rule by that point it's too late.

În general, oamenii nu È™tiu s? tr?iasc?, nu se pun de acord cu viaÈ›a, nu se simt bine cu adev?rat în aceast? via??, aÈ™a încât ticluiesc diferite proiecte, mai mult sau mai puÈ›in ambiÈ›ioase, mai mult sau mai puÈ›in m?reÈ›e, dup? caz, È™i, de obicei, dau greÈ™, ajungând la concluzia c? ar fi fost mai bine, pur È™i simplu, s? tr?iasc?, dar, tot de obicei, e prea târziu pentru aÈ™a ceva.

Il n'y a pas beaucoup à gagner dans ce monde

Les hommes en géneral ne savent pas vivre, ils n'ont aucune vraie familiarité avec la vie, ils ne s'y sentent jamais tout à fait à leur aise, aussi poursuivent-ils différents projets, plus ou moins ambitieux plus ou moins grandioses c'est selon, en géneral bien entendu ils échouent et parviennent à la conclusion qu'ils aurait mieux fait, tout simplement, de vivre, mais en général il est trop tard.

todo el mundo tiene forzosamente la impresión, en un momento u otro de su vida, de ser un fracasado. Ahí

Siento que se están rompiendo cosas dentro de mí, como paredes de cristal que estallan. Ando como un león enjaulado, rabioso; necesito actuar, pero no puedo hacer nada, porque todas las tentativas me parecen condenadas al fracaso de antemano. Fracaso, fracaso por todas partes. Sólo el suicidio resplandece en lo alto, inaccesible. A medianoche, siento una especie de sorda alteración; se produce algo interno y doloroso. Ya no entiendo nada

The academic study of literature leads basically nowhere, as we all know, unless you happen to be an especially gifted student, in which case it prepares you for a career teaching the academic study of literature—it is, in other words, a rather farcical system that exists solely to replicate itself and yet manages to fail more than 95 percent of the time. Still, it's harmless, and can even have a certain marginal value.

La mia carriera non era stata un fallimento, commercialmente perlomeno: se si aggredisce il mondo con una violenza sufficiente, allora finisce per sganciarli, i suoi sporchi soldi; ma non vi ridà mai e poi mai la gioia.

Una mentira es útil cuando permite transformar la realidad, pensó; pero cuando la transformación fracasa sólo queda la mentira, la amargura y la conciencia de la mentira

Habríamos podido salvar al mundo, y habríamos podido salvarlo en un abrir y cerrar de ojos, in einem Augenblick, pero no lo hicimos, bueno, al menos yo no lo he hecho, y el amor no triunfó, lo traicioné...

You're afraid. You're afraid of trying and not succeeding. What's the worst thing that happens if you apply and don't get it?" -Scott

For the past two years, President Obama has promised our children the moon, stars, rainbows, unicorns and universal health care for all. But the White House Santa's cradle-to-grave entitlement mandates are a spectacularly predictable bust.

Success and failure are two edges of the same blade, two sides of the same coin. To fear one is to forever deny the possibility of the other.

Stop judging your life only by the failures," he whispered. "What should I do?" she whispered. "I'm always going to fail." "We all do," he said softly, his voice closer now. "We all fail. But none of us fail all the time.

Trying," he said at last, "is good. It always is. But failing? Everyone fails, one time or another. It's how you deal with failure that counts, in the end. It's the successes that you're known for-but it's the failures make you what you are.

My only failure was the restaurant in Myrtle Beach. I kept it open for four years. It was in a tourist town, it was only busy four and half, five months of the year. But the bills kept coming all year.

During my 18 years I came to bat almost 10,000 times. I struck out about 1,700 times and walked maybe 1,800 times. You figure a ballplayer will average about 500 at bats a season. That means I played seven years without ever hitting the ball.

You always pass failure on your way to success.

You always pass failure on the way to success.

The two main hazards of psychoanalysis: that it might fail, and that if it succeeds, you'll never be able to forgive yourself for all those wasted years.

Human beings are the only creatures who are allowed to fail. If an ant fails, it's dead.

no worthwhile effort in one's life is either a success or a failure.

But if one assumes that people have a choice in how they respond to external events, in what meaning they attribute to suffering, then one can interpret the constructive response as normal and the neurotic one as a failure to rise to the challenge, as a breakdown in the ability to flow.

Human beings are the only creatures who are allowed to fail. If an ant fails, it's dead. But we're allowed to learn from our mistakes and from our failures.