c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
Stop judging your life only by the failures," he whispered."What should I do?" she whispered. "I'm always going to fail.""We all do," he said softly, his voice closer now. "We all fail. But none of us fail all the time.
— Michelle Sagara West, Cast in Silence
I had drunk much wine and afterward coffee and Strega and I explained, winefully, how we did not do the things we wanted to do; we never did such things.
— Ernest Hemingway
An event in which you did not achieve your desired outcome (definition of failure).
— Steven K. Scott
And failure, if you want to know, Dakota, is just another opportunity to try again.
— Kate Jacobs, The Friday Night Knitting Club
I could take a walk with my wife and try to explain the ghosts I can't stop speaking to. Or I could read all those books piling upabout the beginning of the end of understanding...Meanwhile, it's such a beautiful morning,the changing colors, the hypnotic light.I could sit by the window watching the leaves,which seem to know exactly how to fallfrom one moment to the next. Or I could loseeverything and have to begin over again.
— Philip Schultz, Failure
You must become a free man so that you have “Sidik Paningal; Java” (lucidity and precision of sight). Later, you achieve the peak of detachment of sight (Ma’rifat), where you see something to the horizon with great clarity. Do not take another step before you are certain that the path you take is the right one. Failure is another matter; what matters is precision.
— Emha Ainun Nadjib
Failure is another emotion I cannot stand to feel, because in adult life I have conditioned myself not to fail at anything. Failure takes me straight back to the feelings of worthlessness I grew up with as a stammering, reclusive little boy.
— Jake Wood, Among You: The Extraordinary True Story of a Soldier Broken By War
Failure is when you talk yourself out of becoming something amazing.
— Rudy Francisco
So long as the man with ambition is a failure, the world will tell him to let go of his ideal; but when his ambition is realized, the world will praise him for the persistence and the determination that he manifested during his dark hours, and everybody will point to his life as an example for coming generations. This is invariably the rule. Therefore pay no attention to what the world says when you are down. Be determined to get up, to reach the highest goal you have in view, and you will.
— Christian D. Larson
But, ah me! where is the faultless human creature who can persevere in a good resolution, without sometimes failing and falling back?
— Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
Failure happened. The trick was to accept the risk and try anyway.
— Ilona Andrews, Bayou Moon
But we fall only that we might rise, Alfred. All of us fall; all of us, as you say, screw up. Falling is not important. It is how we get up after the fall that's important.
— Rick Yancey, The Extraordinary Adventures of Alfred Kropp
She had always loved the stars. But tonight, she felt as if they were watching her, waiting for her to fail.
— Sasha Alsberg, Zenith Part 1
The more I try to be perfect
—  the more I fail.
The only real failure in life is giving up. On looking back let it stand to our credit in life's balance sheet that at least we tried, and tried hard.
— A.G. Street, Farmer's Glory
The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did--which was to hide.
— James     Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name
So few are the easy victories as the ultimate failures.
— Marcel Proust
As the sun shines I will make hayTo keep failure at bayFor there remaineth a payFor my honest toil each day.
— Ogwo David Emenike
If you live to fail, then you fail to live.
— Muhammad "Mice" Misrad
The ability to overcome failure--to live through it and move on--is crucial. If we are not willing to face failure--if we don't have the skills to survive it--we have precluded any real creativity or risk. Failure may never become our friend, but if we are to do meaningful work, perhaps failure needs to be our companion.
— John Hunter, World Peace and Other 4th-Grade Achievements
Decode the message of failure and enjoy the fortune thereof.
— Ogwo David Emenike, The Fortune in Failing: Decoding the Message of Failure
Failure is not the deterrent for the next try. Rather, it is information that empowers the next step.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
The pressure of adversity is the most powerful sustainer of accountability. It's as though everything you do is multiplied by 50 in order to surpass those with a head-start. I was never capable of slacking when at the threshold of failure.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
Much of life is about failure, whether we acknowledge it or not, and your destiny is profoundly shaped by how effectively you learn from and adapt to failure.
— David Brooks, The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement
Children, who play life, discern its true law and relations more clearly than men, who fail to live it worthily, but who think that they are wiser by experience, that is, by failure.
— Henry David Thoreau, Walden
And of course, there is always the F for failure. F for failing falling festering failure. F for fault. F for forgotten.
— Marcella Pixley, Without Tess
If things go wrong, you don't have to accept you made a bum decision.
— Dorothy Koomson, My Best Friend's Girl
For every question, there is an answer. Where everybody fails is by asking the wrong question.
— Richard Diaz
I coulda' had class. I coulda' been a contender! But instead I got a one way ticket to Palookaville.
— Budd Schulberg, On the Waterfront: A Screenplay
The Elizabethan Failure may engage in battle, but the blow that fells him will most likely be an accidental one. And the cup of water so gallantly offered will, at the last moment, slip from his weak grasp, thus rendering two people thirsty instead of one.
— Naomi Neale, Calendar Girl
Allow yourself to think that the possibility of failure is a necessary part of parenting well.... Avoiding the possibility of failure means avoiding the possibility of being an extraordinary parent-and avoiding what you want for your child.
— Lisa Coyne, The Joy of Parenting: An Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Guide to Effective Parenting in the Early Years
When I was a boy, that was all I wanted—to grow a pair of wings and get up into the sky. I had a basement full of failed wing projects. Boards and capes and motors, even a pile of found feathers I once tried to glue together with a bottle of Elmer’s; you should have seen your grandmother’s face. But I never got any higher than the backyard fence I’d launch from. I never got inside a cloud. Your raven did.
— Beth Kephart, Undercover
Stairs to success are made of people.
— Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land
I've learned the maximum from my failures.
— AdOrAbLe MiNd
Because when you give too many fucks—when you give a fuck about everyone and everything—you will feel that you’re perpetually entitled to be comfortable and happy at all times, that everything is supposed to be just exactly the fucking way you want it to be. This is a sickness. And it will eat you alive. You will see every adversity as an injustice, every challenge as a failure, every inconvenience as a personal slight, every disagreement as a betrayal.
— Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
We always have to blame our failures on somebody else, and dictatorships always need an external enemy to bind their followers together. As the man said, for every complex problem there’s a simple solution, and it’s wrong.
— Umberto Eco, Foucault's Pendulum
If giving up is to fail, then to hell with give up!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.—Samuel Beckett, Worstward Ho (1983)
— Samuel Beckett, Worstward Ho
Failure is a friend if we can see past the face of the foe that we project on it.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Things that will someday work out well start out well. Things that will never work start out bad and stay that way.
— Scott Adams, How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life
We usually fail at the things most important to us, precisely because they are so important to us.
— Marty Rubin
Susan poured herself out some more wine. She said:   "You're nice. You must come and see me some time. I live miles away from anywhere with my father. You'll like him."   "Tell me about him."   "He's a curious little man with a walrus moustache."   "What does he do?"   "He's a failure."   "Where does he fail?"   "Oh, he doesn't any longer," she said. "He's a retired failure, you see. You must meet him."   "I'd like to.
— Anthony Powell, Afternoon Men
Failure is blessing wrapped in the clothing of curse.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
What you rarely see is a stillborn failure that transmogrifies into a stellar success. Small successes can grow into big ones, but failures rarely grow into successes.I can’t think of an example in my life. It’s generally true that if no one is excited about your art/product/idea in the beginning, they never will be. If the first commercial version of your work excites no one to action, it’s time to move on to something different. Don’t be fooled by the opinions of friends and family. They’re all liars.
— Scott Adams, How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life
If you believe you will fail, there is no hope for you. You will.Rid yourself of this I-am-a-poor-worm-in-the-dust idea. You are a god, with infinite capabilities. "All things are ready if the mind be so." The eagle looks the cloudless sun in the face.
— J. Berg Esenwein, The Art of Public Speaking
The fear of getting knocked down is less about the pain of the fall and more about the embarrassment in having fallen. And so, to rid myself of the latter is to reduce my concern about the former, which means I just unleashed my life.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
At some point, most of us reach a place where we’re afraid to fail, where we instinctively avoid failure and stick only to what is placed in front of us or only what we’re already good at.This confines us and stifles us. We can be truly successful only at something we’re willing to fail at. If we’re unwilling to fail, then we’re unwilling to succeed.
— Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
Improvement at anything is based on thousands of tiny failures, and the magnitude of your success is based on how many times you’ve failed at something. If someone is better than you at something, then it’s likely because she has failed at it more than you have. If someone is worse than you, it’s likely because he hasn’t been through all of the painful learning experiences you have.
— Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
Once you learn to celebrate your failures, you are on the way to becoming the real deal!
— Harsh Agrawal, Affiliate Marketing For Dummies by ShoutMeLoud: Shortcut to unexplored digital monetization technique.
When you start your journey towards your target, walk and then rest for a while and then walk again and then rest for a while again and then walk again! Rule out the option of failure in your mind! Leave only one option available: To reach your target!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
No one is a failure until that is the only definition of themselves that they are willing to see within.
— Srividya Srinivasan
The only way to avoid failure is to sit in a corner and do nothing.
— Kevin Leman, The Firstborn Advantage: Making Your Birth Order Work for You
I'd rather make my crib a house of God and pray directly to God verses, than listening to this hypocritical leaders/priest experiencing too much failure!!!
— Napz Cherub Pellazo
And I felt like such a failure. I thought: I can't even do mental illness properly.
— Sara Baume, A Line Made by Walking
FAILURE IS INEVITABLE. I will fail. We all will. And having failed, and gotten back up, and failed again, taught me that I can survive failure. This is a downfall in most modern stories: the hero always wins. Because while this story is inspiring, it’s also false. In reality, not everyone wins. It’s 100% true that no one wills all the time, and we expect that—every hero must fall at least once. But it’s also 100% true that some people never win at all, and that’s the thing we try so hard to ignore behind the pretty stories. I could spend the rest of my life trying to be a prima ballerina, and it would not happen. I would fail at that for the rest of my life. FAILURE TEACHES US WHO WE ARE. Because even though I know I would fail forever at being a prima ballerina, I also know that I am not someone who should be a prima ballerina. It’s not who I am, it’s not what I want. Of course I would fail at it.
— Beth Revis, Paper Hearts, Volume 1: Some Writing Advice
Failure makes the success worth it.
— Beth Revis, Paper Hearts, Volume 1: Some Writing Advice
The day you believe ‘you know everything’ you have just experienced the biggest failure of your life! Recovery might be difficult!
— Harrish Sairaman
...I am better Thoughtful Prince than King. Potential holds appeal since in its castle wallsOne is protected from the awful shameOf failure.
— Mike Bartlett, King Charles III
Every form of life must struggle. Life is an aberration; death is ordinary. Life requires obstruction, conflict, reverses, and resolve. Life requires questing. Questing provides the meaning that we seek, a purpose to justify the inevitable struggle to live knowing the absurdity that we must die.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Despite the way she rallied, the haunted look in her eyes was enough to break him, as lost and lonely as an abandoned child’s.
— Katherine McIntyre, Waking for Winter
Personal struggles, mistakes, and perseverance are part of every person’s life story. A proper mindset can turn failure into a gift. Specific human qualities such as intelligence and adaptive skills can be cultivated through applied effort to assist a person overcome a resounding failure. Each person would be wise to ask how does a person cope – grapple – with failure? We derive strength from our struggles.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Knowingly or unknowingly, our past disappointments guide us positively and or negatively in our present day journey of life, based on how we see and use the lessons from our past!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Religion, Philosophy and life
A feistiness of spirit girds us in the most treacherous of moments. A metamorphosis of spirit often occurs after a person conscientiously surveys the resultant outcome of surviving a momentous ordeal and they transfigure personal heartache into a magnanimous manner of living in a just and righteous manner.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
If I’m conceited enough to believe I’m invincible, then maybe it will take me doing the very thing I swore I would never do to understand that I’m not as wonderful as I thought I was.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
A principled person’s greatest disappointment will always be his or her own failures to respond to setbacks in a dynamic and positive way.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Impossible” is subjective
— Mayur Ramgir, Unbarred Innovation: A Pathway to Greatest Discoveries
Failing may not necessarily mean you're losing out - it may be your defining moment. So, dare to fail forward!
— Olawale Daniel
But regret is the thing we should fear most. Failure is an answer. Rejection is an answer. Regret is an eternal question you will never have the answer to.
— Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
They may have told you that you are useless but I am here to give you a better report about you: You are not a mistake. You have the potential to do what you were born to do. Yes, you are not a failure! Know that God values you and He is on your side.
— D.S. Mashego
The real promise in too many promises is a promise that I’m going to be disappointed.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Only you are your own successor or lead to your own failure. It is how you learn from your experiences and mistakes. If you keep making the same mistakes, it is you and you alone can take the blame. Today's mistakes can be Tomorrow's lessons.
— Rosemarie J. Alvarez
Successful people will declare that their failures have been the foundation for their success.
— Kevin Abdulrahman, The Book on What Ever You're Into: These Are the 52 Timeless Winning Truths You Need to Know to Have a Chance at Winning
The reason placing blame repeatedly fails to work is that I repeatedly place it on everyone else instead of where it actually belongs.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
If you're trying to do something new, you may feel uncomfortable with the idea of starting, or you may worry that your idea won't be accepted by everyone. One way to 'get over it' is to learn to become comfortable with failure.
— Chris Guillebeau, The Happiness of Pursuit: Finding the Quest That Will Bring Purpose to Your Life
But I still state unhesitatingly, that for pure, vacillating stupidity, for superb incompetence to command, for ignorance combined with bad judgment --in short, for the true talent for catastrophe -- Elphy Bey stood alone. Others abide our question, but Elphy outshines them all as the greatest military idiot of our own or any other day.Only he could have permitted the First Afghan War and let it develop to such ruinous defeat. It was not easy: he started with a good army, a secure position, some excellent officers, a disorganized enemy, and repeated opportunities to save the situation. But Elphy, with the touch of true genius, swept aside these obstacles with unerring precision, and out of order wrought complete chaos. We shall not, with luck, look upon his like again.
— George MacDonald Fraser, Flashman
All of us learned how to walk by failing.
— J.R. Rim
If you can tolerate the humiliation and helplessness and admit that you're an out-of-control fuckup, it frees you from expectations that you can't possibly meet, promises you can't keep, and appearances you can't maintain; it liberates you from the ensuring cycle of endless failure.
— Michael Bennett, F*ck Feelings: One Shrink's Practical Advice for Managing All Life's Impossible Problems
The threat of failure shouldn't kill the fun of dreaming.
— J.C. Lillis, A&B
The only time you must not fail is the last time you try
— Kamari aka Lyrikal
The only real sadness, the only real failure, the only great tragedy in life, is not to become a saint.
— Léon Bloy
Out of love and desire to protect our children's self-esteem, we have bulldozed every uncomfortable bump and obstacle out of the way, clearing the manicured path we hoped would lead to success and happiness. Unfortunately, in doing so we have deprived our children of the most important lessons of childhood. The setbacks, mistakes, miscalculations, and failures we have shoved out of our children's way are the very experiences that teach them how to be resourceful, persistent, innovative and resilient citizens of this world.
— Jessica Lahey, The Gift of Failure: How the Best Parents Learn to Let Go So Their Children Can Succeed
But I was not good enough. You should understand this about me—I am not a hero; not one to tap unknown reserves of courage; not one to rise to circumstance. I am the understudy who chokes on his lines when he is forced onto the stage. I am never, ever good enough.
— Dexter Palmer, The Dream of Perpetual Motion
If the only thing I did for the rest of my life was treat others kindly, file manila folders, and sit on the porch watching the grass grow it would be enough. It had to be. I did the math. The number of people who actually achieve a significant legacy is trifling compared to the vast number who go from birth to death living relatively unremarkable lives (at least on the surface). And maybe that wasn't the failure I'd been conditioned to believe. Maybe there was something to be said in praise of an outwardly unremarkable life. Maybe there were deep everyday forms of magic that had nothing to do with profound acomplishments or a Twitter feed that resonated down through the ages.
— Clara Bensen
Better to lose with the right team than to win with the wrong team.
— Ogwo David Emenike
On the road to nowhere there are many people who lack the vision to get you anywhere.
— Johnnie Dent Jr.
Failure is a discovery, through it we get to know what we can rise from.
— Kabelo Mabona
Testing the wrong person can prove a massive failure for the antagonist.
— Carlos Wallace, The Other 99 T.Y.M.E.S: Train Your Mind to Enjoy Serenity
Get with it, or get left behind.
— Eli
Most of my failures can be ascribed to the fact that I chose that which was ‘easy’ over that which was ‘right’. And while it’s ‘right’ to admit this to myself, it isn’t ‘easy.’ So, which choice am I going to make this time?
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
If we're unwilling to fail, then we're unwilling to succeed.
— Mark Manson
It was the same old question, whether a declaration of purpose might protect you from failure.
— Emily Witt, Future Sex
You only fail when you stop trying.
— Thomas Edison
The failure of the church is a result of not equipping believers with mindset to extend God’s kingdom
— Sunday Adelaja
Most people fail in life because they were not prepared for the opportunities when they appeared.
— Orrin Woodward
I Failed My Way To Success.
— Thomas Edison
Resilience is built from real hardship and cannot be bought or manufactured.
— Julie Lythcott-Haims, How to Raise an Adult: Break Free of the Overparenting Trap and Prepare Your Kid for Success
Dreaming of the life we want has always been easier than working for it.
— Auliq-Ice
We are some combination of strengths and weaknesses, virtues and less-than-virtuous inclinations. Greed, selfishness and pride are often co-conspirators planning their return just beyond the surface of our consciousness.
— Auliq-Ice
The multiple failures of top-down design, and the omnipresence of unintended consequences, can be attributed in large part, to the absence of relevant information.
— Cass R. Sunstein
Believe me, Michael:Those who flee from the past will always lose the race.I know this from experience. When you reach your goal,Your imagined paradise of success and grandeur,You will find your past failures waiting there to greet you.
— T.S. Eliot
She lashed herself with every failing she could think of, then every regret, and fell to the ground, sobbing.
— Suzie Wilde, The Book of Bera
The word failure is imperfect. Once we begin to transform it, it ceases to be that any longer. The term is always slipping off the edges of our vision, not simply because it's hard to see without wincing, but because once we are ready to talk about it, we often call the event something else--a learning experience, a trial, a reinvention--no longer the static concept of failure.
— Sarah Lewis, The Cross and the Crescent
Because of the past, so many people are living in the past! No one is free from the past, but we are free to choose to move from the past into the present or stay in the past, though we live in the present!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Failure is an opportunity to rise higher than before.
— Edwin Dearborn, Power Branding Secrets: Spark Customer Interest and Ignite Your Sales
Fail hard, fail fast and fail often is the only way to get involved with real innovation in this fast changing world. Instead, most companies are trying to prevent failure at all cost, which makes them very unadaptive and the failures very expensive.
— Danny Mekić
I tell you the truth, so many people failed to do what they could have done because of the bitter things that happened in the past.
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Religion, Philosophy and life
I worry about setting myself up to fail, about letting people down. If I don’t try for a better life, then I don’t have to worry about disappointing anybody. […] You’d be disappointing yourself, though, wouldn’t you, by not taking the chance?
— Brooke McKinley, Shades of Gray
How does it feel to be helpless, Led?To depend on something that fails you?There's no more running from who you are; no one to hold you together anymore.You're alone now--The ghost of Tokyo has come for you all.
— Rick Remender, Tokyo Ghost, Vol. 2: Come Join Us
Mistakes don’t make you a failure, but beating yourself up makes you feel like one.
— Frank Sonnenberg, BookSmart: Hundreds of real-world lessons for success and happiness
Nor should failure be considered a total loss.
— Steven D. Levitt, Think Like a Freak
The elements of trial and error, similar to earth and sky, and fire and water, delineates the constituent modules of our lives. Living robustly includes more failures than successes. We achieve adeptness to living by exhibiting a willingness to make good faith mistakes and learn from each misadventure. Every effort that fails to achieve our expected result is understandably frustrating. The fact is that without ideas and dreams and devoid of occasional crash landings, a person can never hope to achieve any worthy acts to temper resounding personal disappointment. Meaningful success is ultimately defined when a person dies, when an entire life’s work devoted to performing passionate and compassionate enterprises can be judge as a whole unit.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Day by day we increase in age. Step by step we reduce the number of our steps. When you grow old, you shall see life differently and you shall get a better understanding of the journey of life: how you lived it and how you should have lived it!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Religion, Philosophy and life
Success is not always equal to profit, Failure is not always equal to loss.
— Dr. Mohd Nayyer Rahman
The more Wayne inhabited Edison, the more he wondered how a man cultivates a stubborn streak so pronounced that it transforms a daily barrage of failures into stimulants.
— Jim Lynch, Border Songs
You try, you fail, you try, you fail; the only true failure is when you stop trying.
— Madame Leota
I think for anyone to become good at something, they have to fail a lot too. And they have to be completely unafraid to fail or they'll never make it to the next level.
— Amy Schumer, The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo
Damage control is part of life. It would be better to never make a mistake, but once it's made it's best to handle it with grace and humility. Sometimes that shows others more than our failures ever could.
— Rev. Kellen Roggenbuck
Keep trying is success and giving up is failure.
— Girdhar Joshi, Some Mistakes Have No Pardon
It is not good to talk about rude things you have done willingly or mistakenly. We have to forget those things after telling about it to someone virtues. Then we have another chance to correct us. Repeatedly reminding those things will give us lot of bad results. Instead it is better to talk about best things you have done.
— Muditha Champika, Theories of Nature and the Universe: Comparison of Pure Buddhist Philosophy and Science
If only you want the best, do it till you get the best though all see is the worst! Don't ever give up on the rest, and rest; time changes!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
There is no feeling quite so lonely as failure.
— Jeffrey Fry
Failure is not an option.
— Teri Terry
Like the bronze statue of the Angel of the Waters, those who pursue perfection find themselves paralysed by the possibility of flaw, fault or failure.
— Jamie Le Fay, Beginnings
Failure, they say, is a growth experience; you learn from failure. I wish that were true. It seems to me the main thing you learn from failure is that it's entirely possible you will have another failure.
— Nora Ephron, I Remember Nothing: and Other Reflections
But it's not easy, realising how we fucked it all up. And that turns out to be the hardest thing to live with, not the regret or the fear, but the realisation that the edge is so close to where we live.
— Jess Walter, The Financial Lives of the Poets
You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone.
— Johnny Cash
Failure is good as long as it doesn’t become a habit.
— Michael Eisner
Yes, failure is part of the mix, he says, but it is a means, not an end. If you fail repeatedly, and in the same manner, you're an idiot, not a genius.
— Eric Weiner, The Geography of Genius: A Search for the World's Most Creative Places from Ancient Athens to Silicon Valley
Failure is not an option
— Terry Teri
I'd already figured out that not understanding my failings was another one of my failings.
— Melissa Bank, The Wonder Spot
Today's world is flooded with participation trophies. In an attempt to promote equality we have robbed our youth of the most growth-inducing aspect of competition, failing. If you want to be resurrected, you have to first be crucified. Everybody wants to be reborn, but no one is willing to die. Losing, in the context of whatever arena it may be, is a microcosmic death. When we learn from our failures and grow because of them, we are reborn.
— Chris Matakas, The Tao of Jiu Jitsu
Maybe this is how it happened first for everyone —adults promising us their own failed future.
— Jacqueline Woodson, Another Brooklyn
This was defeat. This was failure; a quiet, ashen world. True humility and obedience, where the knee is bowed to the inevitable, the ring is kissed without pride or restraint.
— Ian McDonald, Brasyl
Indecision and fear can cripple any chances of succeeding and lead to maelstroms of regret that fuel our most fantastic nightmares.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
The phoenix must burn to emerge
— Janet Fitch
To overlook those years (muddled, complicated times) is to fall into the trap of only celebrating success. We can learn as much, if not more, from failure, from promising paths that turn into dead ends. The vision, understanding, patience, and wisdom that informed Steve's last decade were forged in the trials of these intervening years. The failures, stinging reversals, miscommunications, bad judgment calls, emphases on wrong values-the whole Pandora's box of immaturity- were necessary prerequisites to the clarity, moderation, reflection, and steadiness he would display in later years.
— Brent Schlender, Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader
An attitude is more important that circumstances. More powerful than the past, education, finances, successes, failures, or opinions. Attitude can make or break any situation. So when you face a problem remember that your problem is not your problem. Your real problem is your attitude toward your problem. Because your attitude reveals the real you, it determines your successes and failures in every undertaking.
— Toni Sorenson
Life is like a roller coaster. Ups and downs are just part of the ride.
— Bill Loguidice
The root of failure is self-pity. It leads to assumption that our needs are not being met now and probably never will be.
— Prince Akwarandu
That he had no scruples; for, said he, when I fail in my duty, I readily acknowledge it, saying, I am used to do so: I shall never do otherwise, if I am left to myself. If I fail not, then I give GOD thanks, acknowledging that it comes from Him.
— Brother Lawrence, The Practice of the Presence of God, and the Spiritual Maxims
Do they wish us well?Or hope to see us fail?
— Jillian Dodd, That Boy
Good habits are the key to all success. Bad habits are the unlocked door to failure.
— Og Mandino
Every declaration we make is like a seed planted,whose harvest we can't possibly foretell.
— Auliq-Ice
The Advantages of Crises in a relationship is to showcase the REAL Person in the relationship.
— Auliq-Ice
Building alibis is a deeply rooted habit.
— Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich
I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.
— Oprah Winfrey
Whenever you begin to conclude, "I can't win," and "What's the use?" you've set yourself up for failure. Your pessimism becomes a kind of self-fulfilling prophecy.
— James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: A Young Adult's Guide to a Meaningful Future
Life's greatest challenge are the manifestations of our dreams.
— Auliq-Ice
I expected differences among children in how they coped with the difficulty, but I saw something I never expected.Confronted with the hard puzzles, one then-year-old boy pulled up his chair, rubbed his hands together, smacked his lips, and cried out, :I love a challenge!".I never though anyone loved failure.Not only weren't they discouraged by failure, they didn't even think they were failing. They though they were learning.
— Carol S. Dweck, Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
The easiest mistake to make is to lose sight of your goal. Failure is temporary, but quitting is permanent. Choose wisely.
— Kevin J. Donaldson
There is nothing fiercer than a failed artist. The energy remains, but having no outlet, it implodes in a great fart of rage which smokes up all the inner windows of the soul.
— Erica Jong, Fear of Flying
Failure I can live with. Not trying is what I can’t handle.
— Sanya Richards-Ross
There is nothing fiercer than a failed artist. The energy remains, but, having no outlet, it implodes in a great fart of rage which smokes up all the inner windows of the soul.
— Erica Jong, Fear of Flying
It always feels good and comforting to relax whilst there is work to be done but, it feels fulfilling to work hard, overcome slothfulness and challenges with tenacity and achieve your aim when you should have relaxed
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
What you do doesn’t define you. You can’t let your failures, or your success for that matter, dictate how you view yourself. You are loved.
— Taylor York
Fatigue, discomfort, discouragement are merely symptoms of effort.
— Morgan Freeman
Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward towards success.
— C.S. Lewis
Think how wonderful it might be to no longer matter, Mrs. Peregrine. Think how wonderful it might be to no longer worry, struggle… or fail.
— Diane B. Saxton, Peregrine Island
His early failure had released him from any felt obligation to think along institutional lines and his thoughts were already independent to a degree few people are familiar with. He felt that institutions such as schools, churches, governments and political organizations of every sort all tended to direct thought for ends other than truth, for the perpetuation of their own functions, and for the control of individuals in the service of these functions. He came to see his early failure as a lucky break, an accidental escape from a trap that had been set for him, and he was very trap-wary about institutional truths for the remainder of his time.
— Robert M. Pirsig
If you fail to control your thought, your thought will never fail to control you! Master the art of controlling your thought better and your thought will control you better
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
There is nothing you cannot turn into your favor.
— Andrei Ludu, Boundaries of a Complex World
Athletes train 15 years for 15 seconds of performance. Ask them if they got lucky. Ask an athlete how he feels after a good workout. He will tell you that he feels spent. If he doesn't feel that way, it means he hasn't worked out to his maximum ability. Losers think life is unfair. They think only of their bad breaks. They don't consider that the person who is prepared and playing well still got the same bad breaks but overcame them. That is the difference. His threshold for tolerating pain becomes higher because in the end he is not training so much for the game but for his character. Alexander Graham Bell was desperately trying to invent a hearing aid for his partially deaf wife. He failed at inventing a hearing aid but in the process discovered the principles of the telephone. You wouldn't call someone like that lucky, would you?Good luck is when opportunity meets preparation. Without effort and preparation, lucky coincidences don't happen.
— Shiv Khera, You Can Win: A Step by Step Tool for Top Achievers
What we call as burden of life is nothing but the human failure on the matter of creating a just world!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
I begin to understand that failure is its own reward. It is in the effort to close the distance between the work imagined and the work achieved wherein it is to be found that the ceaseless labor is the freedom of play, that what's at stake isn't a reflection in the mirror of fame but the escape from the prison of the self.
— Lewis H. Lapham
We get success by hard work and failure by hard luck
— Ravi Ranjan Goswami, The Luteron ka Teela Chambal.
She had been unable to stand the people at the inn. The company had disgusted her. For an instant, but that instant was now long gone, she had thought of returning to her home, to Persia. Or to Greece, where she had friends, but she had dropped the ideaagain. From me she had expected salvation, but I too had disappointed her. I was, much as she was, a lost and ultimately ruinous person, even though I did not admit that to her, she could feel it, she knew it. No salvation could come from such a person. On the contrary, such a person only pushed one even deeper into despair and hopelessness. Schumann, Schopenhauer, these were the two words she said after a prolonged silence and I had the impression that she was smiling as she said them, and then nothing again for a long time. She had had everything, heard and seen everything, that was enough. She did not wish to hear from anyone any more. People were utterly distasteful to her, the whole of human society had profoundly disappointed her and abandoned her in her disappointment. There would have been no point in saying anything, and so I just listened and said nothing. I had, she said, on our second walk in the larch-wood, been the first person to explain to her the concept of anarchy in such a clear and decisive manner. Anarchy she said and no more, after that she was again silent. An anarchist, I had said to her in the larch-wood, was only a person who practised anarchy, she now reminded me. Everything in an intellectual mind is anarchy, she said, repeating another of my quotations. Society, no matter what society, must always be turned upside down and abolished, she said, and what she said were again my words. Everything that is is a lot more terrible and horrible than described by you, she said. You were right, she said, these people here are malicious and violent and this country is a dangerous and an inhuman country. You are lost, she said, just as I am lost. You may escape to wherever you choose. Your science is an absurd science, as is every science. Can you hear yourself? she asked. All these things you yourself said. Schumann and Schopenhauer, they no longer give you anything, you have got to admit it. Whatever you have done in your life, which you are always so fond of describing asexistence, you have, naturally enough, failed. You are an absurd person. I listened to her for a while, then I could bear it no longer and took my leave.
— Thomas Bernhard
It takes only a split second for life to go horribly wrong. To fix the mess, I need a thousand things to go right. The distance from one bit of luck to the next feels as great as the distance across oceans. But, I decide in this moment, I will bridge that distance, again and again, until I win. I will not fail.
— Sabaa Tahir, A Torch Against the Night
Love was the most susceptible to random failure of all human enterprises.
— Charlie Jane Anders, All the Birds in the Sky
The fear of failure kills creativity and intelligence. The only thing it produces is conformity.
— Anup Kochhar, The Failure Project  -The Story Of Man's Greatest Fear
Failure per se is not a disease but it can trigger anxiety, depression and even suicide. If failure can strike anyone, how can we handle it? Medical science has a well-defined mechanism in place for dealing with diseases – it identifies the symptoms and then prescribes a methodology for their management. Psychologists and Psychiatrists have management practices for dealing with anxiety and depression. But do we have a method for dealing with failure?
— Anup Kochhar, The Failure Project  -The Story Of Man's Greatest Fear
It is bound to be a failure, every book is a failure, but I do know with some clarity what kind of book I want to write.
— George Orwell, Why I Write
What does failure do to us? We fall into a vicious downward spiral. Failure is a lot like a shot from a double barrel gun but with a difference. The first shot is like the news which explodes in one’s face. But it is the second, after a short time lag, which causes the most damage. It comprises of pain, humiliation, shame, frustration and anger. The first shot pales in comparison. It is life after the blast that causes the most hurt.
— Anup Kochhar, The Failure Project  -The Story Of Man's Greatest Fear
it’s being branded a failure that causes the most pain
—  when ‘failure’ changes from being a verb to becoming a noun.
Failure is a social taboo.
— Anup Kochhar, The Failure Project  -The Story Of Man's Greatest Fear
Can we quantify failure in degrees and say, ‘on a 10 point scale this failure causes this much pain?’ Extremely difficult.
— Anup Kochhar, The Failure Project  -The Story Of Man's Greatest Fear
The Fear of failure is the greatest fear of man. Even the fear of death is fear of failing to continue life,
— Anup Kochhar, The Failure Project  -The Story Of Man's Greatest Fear
You can't be paralyzed by fear of failure or you will never push yourself.
— Arnold Schwarzenegger
Failure is like flu. It can happen to anyone. Just as it is difficult to find a person who hasn’t had the flu, it is difficult to find someone who has not been stuck by failure at some time.
— Anup Kochhar, The Failure Project  -The Story Of Man's Greatest Fear
Nothing mitigated failure except the knowledge that it did not matter.
— Elizabeth Goudge, The Dean's Watch
A boy trained to break into secure facilities? Perhaps Kowaski wasn't entirely responsible for today's failures after all. Oops.
— Dennis Staginnus, The Eye of Odin
Vivas to those who have fail’d!And to those whose war-vessels sank in the sea!And to those themselves who sank in the sea!And to all generals that lost engagements, and all overcome heroes!And the numberless unknown heroes equal to the greatest heroes known!
— Walt Whitman
If you fail, let the world knows the reasons of your failure; if you win, let the world knows the secrets of your victory! This is a great way to be useful for others!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
a stone / which in its own archaic, simpleminded way / sees life as a chain of failed attempts.
— Wisława Szymborska, View With a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems
A relationship run by rules, instead of love is a relationship that is on the road to failure.
— Shannon L. Alder
I won but I wasn’t like Pat. Because—and why this should be I’ll never know—I never did a thing that wasn’t somehow touched with selfish, furtive hunger, with a private, annihilating need for recognition. Because I’m like a child in a fairy tale cursed from birth, and there has never been anything I can put my hand to without tainting it, no triumph so great or solemn that it doesn’t turn spoiled and ridiculous. Because, sooner or later, the darkness always gets in.
— Austin Grossman, Crooked
Successful people use failures to sharpen their intuition by acknowledging mistakes for what they truly are - feedback.
— Gordana Biernat
What's the reason behind success and failure. The answer is simple ME
— shivangi lavaniya
Have you failed today? If not, you might not be trying hard enough. Failure is a part of growth, a stepping stone towards success. In its own right it is a small victory and should be celebrated as such. So I ask you again, have you failed today?
— Shane E. Bryan
Tenacity bores failure.
— Seun Ayilara
Failure is inevitable, and that the key to success is not dodging every bullet but being able to recover quickly.
— Tina Seelig, What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20
Unbelief loves to paint the bleakest picture it can. It loves to get us mumbling to ourselves, I'm not going to make it. I just know this is going to turn out terrible. The future is bound to crash on me.Let me tell you that God, who began a good work in you, is not about to stop now. After sending his Son to die for your sins, after saving you at such incredible cost, why would he let you fail now?
— Jim Cymbala, Fresh Faith: What Happens When Real Faith Ignites God's People
I would prefer to try and fail than to not try at all.
— Grant McLachlan
Just then his state of being was so curious that he was compelled , himself, to see it -- eager, grieving, fantastic, dangerous, crazed and, to the point of death, "comical." It was enough to make a man pray to God to remove this great, bone-breaking burden of selfhood and self-development, give himself, a failure, back to the species for a primitive cure.
— Saul Bellow, Herzog
Assuming what people want is about as controlled as using fireworks to start a fire.
— Criss Jami
No loss is without opportunity. No failure is without valuable lessons. Plunge in. It will, at worst, be a valuable experience.
— Vironika Tugaleva
For what is more lovable than failure?
— Mervyn Peake, Gormenghast
Failure is not the final fall. The will to rise when you fall is fortitude to success.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
It is much more enjoyable to love success than to hate failure.
— Russell Anthony Gibbs, The Six Principles of Enlightenment and Meaning of Life
There is no such thing as a failed test. You will learn every time you challenge yourself.
— Marsha Blackburn
Success is no mystery, but simply the result of consistently applying some basic principles. The reverse is just as true: Failure is simply a result of making a few mistakes repeatedly. All of this might sound too simplistic, but the fact is that most truths are very simple. I'm not saying they are easy, but they certainly are simple.
— Shiv Khera, You Can Win: A Step by Step Tool for Top Achievers
Life is all of failures with a limited amount of success
— ganeshsaidheeraj
Grade is only a number.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Failure only happens when you lose your willpower to continue trying...If we let the obstacles get the best of us then it was our choice to fail, not fate.
— Lindsey Rietzsch, Successful Failures: Recognizing the Divine Role That Opposition Plays in Life's Quest for Success
As for your failures - stop calling them failures. Refer to them as "experiences". That's all they really are - just experiences.
— Lindsey Rietzsch, Successful Failures: Recognizing the Divine Role That Opposition Plays in Life's Quest for Success
If we fail to learn from our trials and errors then we truly fail.
— Lindsey Rietzsch
Once a person has declared "failure", they cease to look for the alternate open door. When in reality it was just inches away and wide open.
— Lindsey Rietzsch, Successful Failures: Recognizing the Divine Role That Opposition Plays in Life's Quest for Success
The Lord knows all - His timing and reasoning is perfect. If we really trust Him, then we no longer see our failures as a bad thing. We will see them as an answer to our prayers even if we don't understand how in the moment.
— Lindsey Rietzsch, Successful Failures: Recognizing the Divine Role That Opposition Plays in Life's Quest for Success
I think it must be one of those things where no one’s wrong and everybody loses.
— Elizabeth Langston, I Wish
Past success secures future failure if we continue to bask in its glow for too long
— Faisal Khosa
Most people do not want much. All they want is to be envied by most people.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure all your life.
— John W. Gardner
Sometimes, failure uppercuts those who look down on other people.
— Jorge P. Guerrero
Respect people who never afraid of failure and working hard to achieve goal. But I respect more those who support them in this situation.
— Gargi Vyas
Failure is temporary, but defeat is permanent.
— Tom Panaggio
Wake up call may be a disastrous failure, if it results in a life change, the failure is worth the suffering
— Faisal Khosa
Today’s experience prepares you for better tomorrow.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Today’s experience prepares you for a better tomorrow.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Of course I don’t want to get knocked down. But the single and sole solution to that fear is to not go anywhere where I can be knocked down. And is that not already being knocked down?
— Craig D. Lounsbrough, An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus