Your failures and your faults, they stick with you. They glob into ugly, cancerous growths inside you and make you want to die.
People accuse me of being Methody, but I'm not at all. The one thing I don't want people to see is me. I don't want them to be able to recognize my faults and failures and qualities, and I won't use those things to spark off emotions or to illustrate.
We can learn from past failures and mistakes, but we shouldn't get stuck there. We can keep future goals in mind, but we shouldn't get stuck there, either. The only way to reach our potential is to focus on what we must do now - this moment, this day - to perform effectively and win.
Teenage girls are extremists who see the world in black-and- white terms, missing shades of gray. Life is either marvelous or notworth living. School is either pure torment or is going fantastically. Other people are either great or horrible, and they themselves are wonderful or pathetic failures. One day a girl will refer to herself as "the goddess of social life" and the next day she'll regret that she's the "ultimate in nerdosity.
Trying," he said at last, "is good. It always is. But failing? Everyone fails, one time or another. It's how you deal with failure that counts, in the end. It's the successes that you're known for-but it's the failures make you what you are.
A university is not a service station. Neither is it a political society, nor a meeting place for political societies. With all its limitations and failures, and they are invariably many, it is the best and most benign side of our society insofar as that society aims to cherish the human mind.
Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.
Don't worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try.
I don't know why I started writing. I don't know why anybody does it. Maybe they're bored, or failures at something else.
In a world flagrant with the failures of civilization, what is there particularly immortal about our own?
I think we impress people by our success, but I think we impact them by our failures.
You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them.
Know where your money is because we're going to see bank failures, one after another.
I don't consider my marriages as failures! It's idiotic to assume that because a marriage ends, it's failed.
I realised that in a lot of failures, there is a lot of opportunities.
When you die, i. e. , when your physical body is finished with this earth. . . and your astral entity goes on to the astral world. . . it has to stand alone and answer for successes and failures.
I think one of the biggest political failures, and the biggest social failures, over the past few years has been the failure of empathy; not being able to look at the other person down the street.
I've grown tired of resting on my laurels and have decided to start resting on my failures.
I feel quite at home writing short stories but nervous and anxious when writing novels, as if the bad time of consecutive failures might arise again.
Life is a series of failures punctuated by brief successes