Failure Quotes

• Because traumatized people often have trouble sensing what is going on in their bodies, they lack a nuanced response to frustration. They either react to stress by becoming “spaced out” or with excessive anger. Whatever their response, they often can’t tell what is upsetting them. This failure to be in touch with their bodies contributes to their well-documented lack of self-protection and high rates of revictimization23 and also to their remarkable difficulties feeling pleasure, sensuality, and having a sense of meaning. People with alexithymia can get better only by learning to recognize the relationship between their physical sensations and their emotions, much as colorblind people can only enter the world of color by learning to distinguish and appreciate shades of gray.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Trouble
  • Stress
  • Anger

• Only failure makes us experts.

  

  Theo de Raadt
  • Failure
  • Experts

• Failure is nothing but the kiss of Jesus.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Failure
  • Kiss

• We have scarcely gotten home ... when our children's sneezes greet us, skinned knees bleed after waiting all day to do so. There is the bellyache and the burned-out basement bulb, the stalled car and the incontinent cat. The windows frost, the toilets sweat, the body of our spouse is one cold shoulder and the darkness of our bedroom is soon full of the fallen shadows of our failures.

  

  William H. Gass
  • Time
  • Men
  • Home

• I think the greatest taboos in America are faith and failure.

  

  Michael Malone
  • Faith
  • Failure
  • Taboos

• The right shot at the right moment does not come because you do not let go of yourself. You do not wait for fulfilment, but brace yourself for failure.

  

  Eugen Herrigel
  • Failure
  • Wait
  • Brace

• America was the worst place in the world in which to fail, fall sick, get old or die, because then your problems had crystallised into the unforgivable sin. Failure.

  

  Evelyn Anthony
  • America
  • Problems
  • Sin

• We are not merely tempered and schooled by failure but compelled, in however subtle a fashion, to become something other than we were.

  

  Anthony Lane
  • Failure
  • Become
  • Tempered

• Bowie mattered to me. He reinvented himself so many times - it must have been a daring statement to do that, risking failure. And hanging out with him and seeing him like that - he's my dad's age, born in the same month - when you find someone who's been through a really dark period, which most of his music I care about is from, Low, Lodger, "Heroes" era.... But he came out of it and made something that mattered.

  

  Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails
  • Music
  • Hero
  • Statement

• I assume everything I do in life is gonna be a failure, and then if it turns up roses, then I'm psyched.

  

  Jonah Hill
  • Failure
  • I Do
  • Psyched

• Each of us possesses five fundamental, enthralling maps to the natural world: sight, touch, taste, hearing, smell. As we unravel the threads that bind us to nature, as denizens of data and artifice, amid crowds and clutter, we become miserly with these loyal and exquisite guides, we numb our sensory intelligence. This failure of attention will make orphans of us all.

  

  Ellen Meloy
  • Attention
  • Intelligence
  • Guides

• I'm troubled by what I see as a sort of rooting for Trump's failure, because that is rooting for our own failure.

  

  Eva Moskowitz
  • Failure
  • Trump
  • Troubled

• Bacon is so good by itself that to put it in any other food is an admission of failure. You're basically saying, 'I can't make this other food taste good, so I'll throw in bacon.'

  

  Penn Jillette
  • Good
  • Food
  • Failure

• I don’t believe in failure; I believe there are setbacks that are put into our path to teach us something and move us in a different direction.

  

  Geri Jewell
  • Failure
  • Path
  • Direction

• The signal from Schroeder and Chirac to Turkey, that they can be full members, has contributed to the failure of the constitutional treaty.

  

  Edmund Stoiber
  • Members
  • Turkey
  • Signal

• Real courage is holding on to a still voice in your head that says, 'I must keep going.' It's that voice that says nothing is a failure if it is not final. That voice that says to you, 'Get out of bed. Keep going. I will not quit.'

  

  Cory Booker
  • Real
  • Courage
  • Voice

• I believe that the heaviest blow ever dealt at liberty's head will be dealt by this nation in the ultimate failure of its example to the earth.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Failure
  • Liberty
  • I Believe

• 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
  • Stories
  • Hero
  • Inspiring

• In all pursuits men complain of failure when they have not attained the measure of success they proposed to themselves.

  

  Charles Tomlinson
  • Men
  • Success
  • Proposed

• I do think the biggest problem newspapers have is loss of trust, and I feel that's a result of failure to speak truth to power.

  

  Craig Newmark
  • Power
  • Truth
  • Problem

• When you accept that failure is a good thing, it can actually be a huge propeller toward success.

  

  Whitney Wolfe Herd
  • Good
  • Success
  • Accept

• All of us have failed to match our dream of perfection. I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible. If I could write all my work again, I'm convinced I could do it better. This is the healthiest condition for an artist. That's why he keeps working, trying again: he believes each time that this time he will do it, bring it off. Of course he won't.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Dream
  • Write
  • Believes

• If we Microsoft Corporation weren't still hiring great people and pushing ahead at full speed, it would be easy to fall behind and become a mediocre company. Fear should guide you, but it should be latent. I have some latent fear. I consider failure on a regular basis.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Consider
  • Microsoft Corporation
  • Mediocre company

• Remember—boredom is the enemy, not some abstract "failure.

  

  Tim Ferriss
  • Remember
  • Failure
  • Enemy

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