Quotes About Failure

We cooked our first meal today. I didn't know it was possible to burn spaghetti.

Desconozco todas las claves para el éxito, pero tratar de agradar a todo el mundo es una de las claves para el fracaso. Ser influenciado por la opinión de los demás te garantiza perder los propósitos de Dios para tu vida.

You want to feel sorry for him, but he was his own undoing.

Once we lost Clive the Glide it was all over.

don't always get it right—in fact, if my ideas about temporary advantage and learning from failure apply, it's almost impossible for a company to call it correctly every time.

Failure, we see again and again, isn't final, judgment has a point, and consequences are for correction.

The actor Mark Ruffalo went to six hundred auditions before he got his first break. Six hundred NOs before the first YES.

This was the tragic fallacy which brought on the decadence and collapse of the democracies of the twentieth century; those noble experiments failed because the people had been led to believe that they could simply vote for whatever they wanted . . . and get it, without toil, without sweat, without tears.

good luck' follows careful preparation; 'bad luck' comes from sloppiness.

Smith felt distressed at the failure to respond in kind and interpreted it as failure on his own part. He realized miserably that, time after time, he had managed to bring agitation to these other creatures when his purpose had been to create oneness.

adult delinquents—people of mature years who either do not know their duty, or who, knowing it, fail.

We were disgraced and we felt disgraced.

Control of anything essential to life should be decentralized and paralleled so that if one machine fails, another takes over.

best things in life are free.' Not true! Utterly false! This was the tragic fallacy which brought on the decadence and collapse of the democracies of the twentieth century; those noble experiments failed because the people had been led to believe that they could simply vote for whatever they wanted . . . and get it, without toil, without sweat, without tears.

Nothing in this book is an attempt to prevent the really resolute misery addicts from continuing their pursuit of frustration and failure.

A minute's success pays the failure of years.

The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry.

Stoics belittle physical harm, but this is not braggadocio. They are speaking of it in comparison to the devastating agony of shame they fancied good men generating when they knew in their hearts that they had failed to do their duty

Regret is so much harder to live with than failure

His conscience never bothered him, because when he failed, he would go straight to the Lord, saying, This is what I'll always naturally do if I'm left on my own, Lord. If he didn't stumble, though, he would always give God the credit.

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

In terms of game theory, the opposite of a failed tactic is not necessarily success.

A falling star was a failed star, a cinder burning in the atmosphere.

A natural response when people feel overwhelmed is to retreat into various forms of passivity. If we don't try too much in life, if we limit our circle of action, we can give ourselves the illusion of control. The less we attempt, the less chances of failure. If we can make it look like we are not really responsible for our fate, for what happens to us in life, then our apparent powerlessness is more palatable.