Quotes About Failure

For much of the Communist era, scholars tended to look back on Sun as one more unsuccessful, reform-minded leader, and his Three People's Principles as just another of modern China's many dead-end political experiments. As one biographer wrote: "If Sun Yat-sen had one consistent talent, it was for failure.

Neither secular progress nor secular progressives have brought the West where they once promised. Nor can they.

To flout the will of God openly will therefore be the fast track to social and national failure for Western nations.

If it failed I had no choice but to hang myself, a resolve which was tantamount to a bet on the existence of God.

If I were to experience failure upon failure day after day — nothing but total embarrassment — then perhaps I'd develop some semblance of dignity as a result. But no, I would somehow illogically twist even such failures, gloss over them smoothly, so that it would seem like they had a perfectly good theory behind them. And I would have no qualms about putting on a desperate show to do so.

My definition of a "respected" man was one who had succeeded almost completely in hoodwinking people, but who was finally seen through by some omniscient, omnipotent person who ruined him and made him suffer a shame worse than death.

If all you've got is just enough talent to get along, sooner or later you'll betray yourself.

As long as you have the desire to be somebody, you will not fall into decadence. And you don't have that kind of goal. You are passionate about wanting to see what it is like to fail.

I've been subjected to ridicule and derision every day of my life. In spite of which, did I not take courage and boldly present myself at that examination? Yes! Only to fail miserably... In a world like this, where the brazen, the shameless, the evil-hearted alone prosper, a weak and penniless scholar like myself is destined forever to be a failure and a laughingstock.

hey believe that while they are a student, cheating is the greatest dishonor and failing is the accomplishment of a hero. But once they go out into the real world, they realize that it's the complete opposite. One should realize that cheating is not dishonorable, and flunking is the root of failure in life.

Quero morrer. Quero morrer mais do que tudo. Não há mais chance de recuperação. Não importa o que faça, não importa como faça, estou fadado a falhar e adicionar uma camada de verniz à minha vergonha. Não posso sonhar em ir de bicicleta até uma cascata cercada de folhas verdes. São apenas crimes sujos empilhando-se sobre crimes miseráveis e meu sofrimento só cresce e fica ainda mais violento. Quero morrer. Preciso morrer: viver é uma fonte de pecados.

This novel was doomed from the start. All posture and no substance. Whether I write one page or a hundred, it amounts to the same thing. Though I knew this from the start.

Anyone can deal with success, but only the wise can learn from failure.

Failed attempt is just one step closer to finding a solution. Keep working through the failure, it will just be one step closer to success.

The ability to redefine failure as an opportunity to learn is a critical skill for any effective entrepreneur, and it is best to learn early.

Your failures make a hater happier than their own success.

A life that is defended by excuses has become comfortable in defeat, it has settled for mediocrity and is destined for failure.

Tolerating mediocrity is as dangerous as inviting failure

People who love only once in their lives are shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination. Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect -- simply a confession of failures.

Ambition is the last refuge of failure.

Jesus Christ's life was an absolute failure from every standpoint but God's. But what seemed failure from man's standpoint was a tremendous triumph from God's, because God's purpose is never man's purpose.

Christian workers fail because they place their desire for their own holiness above their desire to know God.

All our promises and resolutions end in denial because we have no power to accomplish them.

O Lord, my Lord, I come to Thee this morning with a sense of spiritual failure. Cleanse me by Thy grace and restore me to the heavenly places in Christ Jesus. O that the sweet kindness of Jesus were more and more manifest in me.