Quotes About Failure

The basis of the Philosophy of Impossible Standard is that no matter how hard you try you can't ever be good enough. The Standard raises as you do. (…) The Philosophy allows for only one result: we fail the Standard.

He had no intention of writing. He loved reading, that was all. And he read books that he thought so far beyond anything that he himself could dream of achieving that any thought of writing instantly evaporated into the certainty of failure.

Trying is terrifying because I know I will just fail. But I do want things to be different. I do...I am so afraid. I'm afraid to hope again.

It didn't work like that at sea.

Some very senior naval officers attended instead, most of them convinced the experiment would fail.

The whole enterprise had been doomed from the start, right from the day the French fleet left Toulon six months earlier.

The government failed him, blamed him and jailed him. A couple of generations ago, the United States rewarded veterans by affording them education and housing benefits. More recently, the United States helped get veterans hooked on drugs and then incarcerated them.

He tried juggling with raw eggs – but only once.

Businesses planned for service are apt to succeed businesses planned for profit are apt to fail.

I think it's an essential fact for any performer or artist to fail as poignantly as they can succeed.

Vulnerability is essential to spiritual and creative growth. Finding enormous strength through vulnerability. You're being open to whatever happens, including failure and shame. The two are connected, maybe - vulnerability and freedom.

I think it has become more prevalent because the space has been left completely uncontested to the Muslim right wing, which does not respect anyone's rights whatsoever except for this one right to cover a woman's face,' she replied. 'No one has pushed back against the Muslim right wing. Integration has largely failed across Europe, even in the UK.

in rock'n'roll it wasn't the winners but the losers who made for the most compelling stories.

To be right is just one more reason not to achieve any success.

Ethical rules vary; honour does not change. A man is noble if he prefers to fail rather than to debase the tools of his triumph.

The correct use of liberty can consist in adhering to a destiny, but my liberty consists in being able to refuse to do that. The right to fail is an important right of man.

The failure of progress has not consisted in the non-fulfillment but in the fulfillment of its promises.

The surest ways of winning are more disastrous than any defeat.

A person of intellect without energy added to it, is a failure.

Those who are afraid to fail may not deserve to succeed.

When something goes wrong, such as failing an exam to qualify as a doctor, a person may seem to be despairing over something that has been lost. But on closer inspection, according to Kierkegaard, it becomes obvious that the man is not really despairing of the thing (failing an exam) but of himself. The self that failed to achieve a goal has become intolerable. The man wanted to become a different self (a doctor), but he is now stuck with a failed self and in despair.

It's a European Union of economic failure, of mass unemployment and of low growth.

Success is far more perilous than failure, isn't it? You've got to be doubly strong and watchful and wary.

For a time it seemed their marriage would be just another houseplant that had failed to thrive, choked to death by the lack of money and the death of dreams