Quotes About Failure

It is your own bad strategies, not the unfair opponent, that are to blame for your failures. You are responsible for the good and bad in your life.

it is a curse to have everything go right on your first attempt.

Our successes and failures in life can be traced to how well or how badly we deal with the inevitable conflicts that confront us in society.

The truth is that everything starts from the top. What determines your failure or success is your style of leadership and the chain of command that you design.

Eventually, the time that was not spent on learning skills will catch up with you, and the fall will be painful.

This is the end of everything' (he said), 'at least it is the end of the career of Toad, which is the same thing; the popular

You see, when medicine works, it is blessed science, and when it fails, it is witchcraft. - Polidori

I believe there are failures of character, like I said before. That's a sin.

You don't believe in sins. I believe there are failures of character, like I said before. That's a sin. Well, you're here now. This is where I want to be now.

Diane tenía una idea, un concepto de cómo debería ser la vida, el matrimonio, que no coincidió nunca con lo que tuvimos. En ese sentido le fallé.

when a challenge in life is met by a response that is equal to it, you have success. But when the challenge moves to a higher level, the old, once successful response no longer works—it fails; thus, nothing fails like success.

If you're too weak to handle failure and disappointment, then you're too weak to handle success, which will only end up damaging your life and happiness.

There's a giant gap between what you imagine yourself doing and what you're capable of doing and it hurts pretty bad when you fall into that gap

Men always failed Maman in the end. They forever fell disastrously short of whatever ideal she held them up to. What began with exuberance and passion always ended with terse accusations and hateful words, with rage and weeping fits and the flinging of cooking utensils and collapse. High drama. Maman was incapable of either starting or ending a relationship without excess.

She could not give him his son back. In this most essential way, she had failed him—seven times she had failed him—and now she was nothing but a burden to him. She could see it in the way he looked at her, when he looked at her. She was a burden to him.

when the ambitious man whose slogan is 'Either Caesar or nothing' does not get to be Caesar, he despairs over it. But this also means something else: precisely because he did not get to be Caesar, he now cannot bear to be himself.

Tagged by a whiny little vamp, he said gesturing. Rache, take this sword and stick it in me. Just go and stick it in me. I'm a back-drafted, crumpled-winged, dust-caked, dew-assed excuse of a backup. Worthless as a pixy condom. Taken down by my own partner. Just tape my ass shut and let me fart out my mouth.

As my hand found his, bitter salt tears spilled from my eyes, in sorrow and pain and regret that I had so utterly failed him.

Tagged by a whiny little vamp," he said, gesturing. "Rache, take this sword and stick it in me. Just go and stick it in me. I'm a back-drafted, crumpled-winged, dust-caked, dew-assed excuse of a backup. Worthless as a pixy condom. Taken down by my own partner. Just tape my ass shut and let me fart out my mouth.

Some mistakes you never can make good.

This method is the only way that will work. But it didn't work! It cut out on us! Yes, but this was just the start. If at first you don't succeed— You'll never get funded again.

I am driven into grudging toleration of the Conservative party because it is the party of nonpolitics, of resistance to politics. I have seen how many of the evils of life — failure, loneliness, fear, boredom, inability to communicate — are ineradicable by political means, and that attempts so to eradicate them are disastrous.

Having been an employee all his life, and trapped in the mental, maximum security prison known as job security, he did not know how to recover from his failures or learn from his mistakes, much less how to start over to replace his paycheck and his pension.

Hvorledes det gik i byen? Det gik ikke, nei.