190 Quotes Tagged: failure

And for all those years, we never talked about the disaster at the recital or my terrible accusations afterward at the piano bench. All that remained unchecked, like a betrayal that was now unbreakable. So I never found a way to ask her why she had hoped something so large that failure was inevitable. And even worse, I never asked her what frightened me the most: Why had she given up hope?

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.

How much you can learn when you fail determines how far you will go into achieving your goals.

If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.

"Be patient. Your skin took a while to deteriorate. Give it some time to reflect a calmer inner state. As one of my friends states on his Facebook profile: "The true Losers in Life, are not those who Try and Fail, but those who Fail to Try.

If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.

It is not the failure that holds us back but the reluctance to begin over again that causes us to stagnate.

If there is one lesson I've learned from failure and success, it's this. I am not the outcome. I am never the result. I am only the effort.

All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.

Don't waste your time hating a failure. Failure is a greater teacher than success. Listen, learn, go on.

You try again. You fail better.

He possessed the logic of all good intentions and a knowledge of all the tricks of his trade, and yet he never succeeded at anything, because he believed too much in the impossible. Surprising? Why so? He was forever in the act of conceiving it!

I am full of fears, for if I fail there, I am an outcast in the world forever.

Never having been able to succeed in the world, he took his revenge by speaking ill of it.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.