Quotes About Failure

Though the evidence from Scripture for editing and compiling is obvious and irrefutable, our failure to deal with it bit by bit in the past places us in jeopardy when we see a rather massive dose of it all at once.

The Soviet Union did not achieve victory over the West, so was my information inadequate to help them to victory, or did it play no particular role in their failure to achieve victory?

I have an ambition to live 300 years. I will not live 300 years. Maybe I will live one year more. But I have the ambition. Why you will not have ambition? Why? Have the greatest ambition possible. You want to be immortal? Fight to be immortal. Do it. You want to make the most fantastic art or movie? Try. If you fail, is not important. We need to try.

The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum; whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of whose who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles. Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal, 1966

Lockdowns have failed as badly as the experts warned us they would, for precisely the reasons those experts spent their careers predicting. But the hysterics have learned nothing from the last four months.

Losing is a powerful management tool so long as it does not become a habit.

En el momento en el que la autocomplacencia se instala, las cosas empiezan a ir mal y casi siempre conduce a la perdición.

If we stop short and grow not, woe to us; for failure in all things, and specially in religion, is misery. If we be comparatively unfruitful, we may not be absolutely unhappy, but we can never know the fulness of joy; for it is only to the faithful servant that the words are spoken: "Enter thou into the joy of thy Lord.

the only things you must have to become a writer are the stamina to continue and a wily, cagey heart in the face of extremity, failure and success.

PhD, MFA, self-taught—the only things you must have to become a writer are the stamina to continue and a wily, cagey heart in the face of extremity, failure, and success.

A singer learned her roles for life - your repertoire was a library of fates held close, like the gowns in this closet, yours until your voice failed.

You have to look at the history of the Middle East in particular. It has been one of failure and frustration, of feudalism and tribalism.

Many masochistic characters engage in the game of failure to cover an inner feeling of superiority.

I get asked, 'How can you have such failures in your films?' Well, what else is life about? There's some sense of constant failure in something. Humor gives you a distance from it.

We simply forget all this—so busy are we, so immersed in our daily preoccupations—and because we forget, we fail. And through this forgetfulness, failure, and sin, our life becomes "old" again—petty, dark and ultimately meaningless—a meaningless journey toward a meaningless end. We manage to forget even death and then, all of a sudden, in the midst of our "enjoying life" it comes to us: horrible, inescapable, senseless.

I think everyone shares a fear of failure - that you're only as good as your most recent collection. That's definitely a fear, but it's a fear that fuels me, that makes me want to work harder, that makes me take on more challenges.

Because feeling like a fuck-up isn't about being a failure, it's about being made to feel like one. It's the pressure and the panic to tick all the boxes and reach all the goals . . . and what happens when you don't. When you find yourself on the outside. Because on some level, in some aspect of your life, it's so easy to feel like you're failing when everyone around you appears to be succeeding.

Because feeling like a fuck-up isn't about being a failure, it's about being made to feel like one.

Scarlett O'Hara did the most courageous thing she had ever been called on to do. She faced up to failure.

It was the fact that they tried so hard that doomed them.

If you meet life squarely, you are likely to make mistakes, do things you wish you hadn't, say things you wish you could retract or phrase more felicitously, and, in short, fumble your way along. Those "mature" people whose lives are even without a single sour note or a single mistake, who never fumble, manage only at the cost of original thought and original action. They do without the successes as well as the failures.

four accounts of how praise may impede performance: it signals low ability, makes people feel pressured, invites a low-risk strategy to avoid failure, and reduces interest in the task itself.

Being afraid of failure isn't at all the same thing as embracing success. In fact, the former gets in the way of the latter.

you're so busy trying to deal with the implications of failing that you don't have the time and energy to do what it takes to succeed.