Quotes About Failure

A]n der Wirklichkeit der Geschichte, scheitert jede Ideologie.

self-protective withdrawal from candidates who are perceived as particularly privileged or untouchable, and "compassionate graduation" of inadequately performing candidates who have remained in training for many years are other typical symptoms of the failure to invest adequate authority in the faculty body.

Evidence not of imperial glory, but of complete cultural failure and betrayal by men who insisted on importing their environment with them, rather than adapting to a new one in which they found themselves struggling to survive.

The music business is like any other business, y'know? When sales are going well, everything's hunky-f**king-dory. But the second something goes wrong, it's all blood and law-suits.

I was twenty now, and had given up all hope of being a singer or ever getting out of Aston. PA system or no PA system, it wasn't going to happen. I'd convinced myself that there was no point in even trying, because I was just going to fail, like I had at school, at work, and at everything else I'd ever tried. 'You ain't no good as a singer,' I told myself. 'You can't even play an instrument, so what hope d'you have?'

The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen.

Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.

The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.

To feel at home in this desperate world of ours is the surest sign that one has failed to recognize it.

Every time he makes plans for his future, he seems to fail. Every time he reaches forward, the world leans against him, pressing him down.

And just as a single victory can redeem many a defeat, so a single defeat can devalue or even eradicate a long string of successes.

E, d'altra parte, così come una sola vittoria può riscattarci da molte sconfitte, è pur vero che una sola sconfitta deprezza, se non cancella del tutto, anche una lunghissima serie di successi.

One priceless bit of advice my great-grandfather fave my grandfather, and my grandfather gave me: "Success is never final. Failure is never fatal.

To grow in love and service, you must value ignorance as much as knowledge and failure as much as success.

The human self also has a nature, limits as well as potentials. If you seek vocation without understanding the material you are working with, what you build with your life will be ungainly and may well put lives in peril, your own and some of those around you. 'Faking it' in the service of high values is no virtue and has nothing to do with vocation. It is an ignorant, sometimes arrogant, attempt to override one's nature, and it will always fail.

Seeking to eliminate pain nonetheless puts it at the heart of the system. As a result, today we suffer from not wanting to suffer just as one can make oneself ill by trying to be perfectly healthy. Furthermore, we now tell ourselves a strange fable about a society completely devoted to hedonism, and for which everything becomes an irritation, a torture. Unhappiness is not only unhappiness; it is, worse yet, a failure to be happy.

A infelicidade não é só a infelicidade: é, ainda pior, o fracasso da felicidade.

As Seth Godin says, "Anxiety is nothing but repeatedly re-experiencing failure in advance.

Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss.

Quit? Quit? We keep score in life because it matters. It counts. Too many people opt out and never discover their own abilities, because they fear failure. They don't understand commitment. When you learn to keep fighting in the face of potential failure, it gives you a larger skill set to do what you want to do in

When I die of heart failure the next time you frighten me like that, you can put that on my gravestone—'I didn't mean to startle her.

I tried to imagine a dragon eating apples and failed.

Genius is neither learned nor acquired. It is knowing without experience. It is risking without fear of failure…

Over the last decade, the standard criteria for relapse, or biochemical failure, after radiation has been the consensus definition of the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology