Quotes About Failure

pointing. She was completely hopeless.

We all learn here by the honorable path of horrible mistakes.

all my ancestors were from the South and some even fought and died for the losing side. Perhaps that's why I was long resigned to my failure to publish.

If grace is so wonderful, why do we have such difficulty recognizing and accepting it? Maybe it's because grace is not gentle or made-to-order. It often comes disguised as loss, or failure, or unwelcome change.

When you are older and have swum out into the stream of life, you'll see -- there are no good people, little girl. We're all trying and failing, trying too hard and failing too often. Remember that. We shouldn't judge too harshly, in the end, the sins of others...

A man who aspires to rise above the mediocre, to be something more than the ordinary, surely deserves admiration, even if he fails and loses a fortune on account of his ambitions (...) if one has failed only where others have not had the courage or will to try, there is consolation - indeed, deep satisfaction - to be gained from his observation when looking back over one's life. #Page no.134

If one has failed only where others have not had the courage or will to try, there is a consolation – indeed, a deep satisfaction – to be gained from this observation when looking back over one's life.

For indeed, a man who aspires to rise above the mediocre, to be something more than ordinary, surely deserves admiration, even if in the end he fails and loses a fortune on account of his ambitions.

Así que si lo he entendido bien..., bien, pues parece que he desperdiciado mi oportunidad.

It is important to learn how to fail, to learn how to be wrong in a way that minimizes pain to you and others and maximizes what you can learn from the experience.

there are risks you'll take for yourself because you know that if your plan goes wrong, it'll be too late for regrets. but if you risk the lives of others and fail, you'll have a lifetime to regret it.

So why was his stomach tightening and twisting with every step up those stairs? Because hope was a dangerous thing. It said the failure would be his own fault alone.

Since when have you ever failed at something once and given up? It's an excuse, Eve- a simple excuse for avoiding the very complex problem that's you and me, and everything we did and didn't do once upon a time. You aren't ready yet. I know that. And I'll wait until you are

Real invention is a process of repeated, crushing failure that leads, very rarely, to a success. If you want to succeed faster, there's nothing for it but to fail faster and better.

If you want to succeed faster, there's nothing for it but to fail faster and better.

Mi vida ha sido un fracaso —dijo Walter—. Aquí acaban todas las esperanzas. La democracia alemana ha muerto.

Cuánto tiempo necesitáis antes de que acabéis admitiendo que el comunismo es un fracaso?

A mistake is a mistake. Another mistake is normal. Only the same mistake twice makes you a fool.

You're going to be fearfully unhappy,' he said. He was trying to be nasty to her, but the attempt was a failure, for she could hear compassion in his voice. 'Yes, I am,' she said. 'Would you at least . . . at least say you respect me for my decision?' 'No,' he said without hesitation. 'I don't. I despise you for it.

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said: "I am the only president you have; if you would have me fail, then you fail, for the country fails.

Man is certain of nothing but his ability to fail

Man is certain of nothing but his ability to fail. It is the deepest faith we have, and the unbeliever- the blasphemer, the dissenter- will stimulate in us the most righteous of furies.

Si ubicas a tu Dios en la física actual, ese Dios también se tambaleará cuando la física se tambalee. Y eso es precisamente lo que preocupa a estos físicos místicos: no quieren que la física se distorsione, ni que el misticismo se empobrezca con un matrimonio condenado de antemano al fracaso. Gracia y coraje, 27-31