Top 1200 Failure In Life Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

One of the great problems facing men is their failure to realize the fact that a child possesses an active psychic life even when he cannot manifest it, and that the child must secretly perfect this inner life over a long period of time.

You fail, and then what? Life goes on. It's only when you risk failure that you discover things.

There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

Life is like a circle and you have to know when to move on. Success and failure are a part and parcel of it.

I am facing the most difficult thing of my life, my own greatest failure.

She felt a stealing sense of fatigue as she walked; the sparkle had died out of her, and the taste of life was stale on her lips. She hardly knew what she had been seeking, or why the failure to find it had so blotted the light from her sky: she was only aware of a vague sense of failure, of an inner isolation deeper than the loneliness about her.

The two hardest things to contemplate in life ... are failure and age; those are one and the same.

Envy not success, nor pity failure, for you know not what is success or failure in the soul's reckoning.

I won't call myself a failure. Failure is not getting knocked down. It's not getting up.

Losing does not make you a failure; it is when you blame someone for losing when you become a failure

... the Armenian massacre was the greatest crime of the war, and the failure to act against Turkey is to condone it ... the failure to deal radically with the Turkish horror means that all talk of guaranteeing the future peace of the world is mischievous nonsense.

Failure isn't a character quality. It's just an event. How you respond to failure is your character.

The failings in Afghanistan don't fall on the shoulders of the American service personnel trying to complete their mission. The failure falls on military leadership unable to adapt to irregular warfare, and a Congress that blindly continues to fund failure.

Your attitude towards failure determines your altitude after failure.

The problem of the modern economy is not a failure of a knowledge of economics; it's a failure of a knowledge of history.

Hell is not a place you go if you're not a Christian, it's the failure of your life's greatest ambition.

I emphasize that virtually every engineering calculation is ultimately a failure calculation, because without a failure criterion against which to measure the calculated result, it is a meaningless number.

A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free.

The failure to cultivate virtue, the failure to examine and analyze what I have learned, the inability to move toward righteousness after being shown the way, the inability to correct my faults-these are the causes of my grief.

Being a failure at living your own life as best as you can is better than being a success living the life somebody else says you should live.

Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable.

If you fall during your life it doesn't matter because you're never a failure if you try to get up.

My personality is based on an anonymity and failure. Failure and anonymity, those are my strengths - superiority from below.

Never tell anyone outside my staff that the Submarine Force and the First Air Fleet were responsible for the failure at Midway. The failure at Midway was mine.

Failure is Central to engineering. Every single calculation that an engineer makes is a failure calculation.

Failure in life does not matter; the greatest misfortune is standing still.

My new one (tattoo) says 'Never a failure, always a lesson' and is kind of my mantra to life, just a reminder. My life is just a crazy rollercoaster every day and whenever I read that it just reassures me.

The malfeasance and misjudgments by our corporate, financial and government leaders, declining ethical standards, and the failure of our new agency society reflect a failure of capitalism.

Failure is an event, something that happens at a specific time on a certain day. If you want to be successful, you have to embrace failure and get back up every single time.

Without intellectual honesty, you can't have a culture that's willing to tolerate failure because people cling too much to an idea that likely will be bad or isn't working and they feel like their reputation is tied up in it. They can't admit failure.

Life isn't just addition and subtraction. There's also the accumulation, the multiplication, of loss, of failure.

I think the two most difficult things to deal with in life are failure and success

When I thought about why I was sometimes reluctant to push myself, I realized that it was because I was afraid of failure - but in order to have more success, I needed to be willing to accept more failure.

Failure is a man's inability to reach his goals in life, whatever they may be

A glorious failure can sometimes be more life affirming than a cautious win.

In the thirty years of my career I learned everything about success, but I did not learn, really, about failure. In Bar Rescue I got exposed to failure at a very deep level.

The unions are the first feeble effort to conquer the industrial jungle for democratic life. They may not succeed, but if they don't their failure will be a tragedy for civilization, a loss of cooperative effort, a baulking of energy, and the fixing in American life of a class-structure.

If your startup is only in the development or idea stage, there is almost no better predictor of failure - I mean, utter failure, scorched-earth bankruptcy - than raising too much money in the first round.

Failure isn't falling down. Failure is not getting up after you have fallen down.

Every entrepreneur knows how agonizingly difficult it is to make the decision to give it your all, knowing that failure is inevitable; the successful ones know that the only way to get back up is through learning from that failure.

The vast majority of people are born, grow up, struggle and go through life in misery and failure, not realizing that it would be just as easy to switch over and get exactly what they want out of life, not recognizing that the mind attracts the thing it dwells upon.

I put the sweat of my life into this project, and if it's a failure, I'll leave the country and never come back.

So you think that you're a failure, do you? Well, you probably are. What's wrong with that? In the first place, if you've any sense at all you must have learned by now that we pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free.

War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political. That a war can be represented as helping a people to 'feel good' about themselves, or their country, is a measure of that failure.

The unfulfilling job is not the failure; not pursuing your dreams is the real failure. Developing a vision requires conquering your fears and finding motivation from within.

We have actually experienced in recent months a dramatic demonstration of an unprecedented intelligence failure, perhaps the most significant intelligence failure in the history of the United States.

I don't think there's anything to be afraid of. Failure brings great rewards - in the life of an artist.

The fear of failure never goes away. In many ways, you could argue that success multiplies the opportunities for failure. It's just more of an argument for becoming more comfortable with it.

Both half success and half failure must be considered as a full failure!

I will work day and night to avoid failure, but if I can't, I'll pick myself up the next day. The most important thing for entrepreneurs is not to be put off by failure.

Never admit the possibility of failure, or speak in a way that infers failure as a possibility.

Solyndra's failure isn't a reason for the government to give up on alternative energy, any more than the failure of Pets.com during the Internet bubble means that venture capital should steer clear of tech projects.

Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them.

If you want to experience all of the successes and pleasure in life, you have to be willing to accept all the pain and failure that comes with it.

People think that the opposite of success is failure, but it's not. Failure is part of the process of success.

The tendency to follow the path of least resistance guarantees failure in life.

All of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their fullest extent. ... And every life must be chalked up at least a partial failure when it does not succeed in reaching its inherent destiny.

It's not about the failure, it's about learning from the failures. Failure itself cannot be celebrated.

The greatest happiness of life was to stand at the difficult border between success and failure.

Failure is what we're all running from, we're always running toward success with failure at our back.