failure

It is the hardest thing of all, the one thing that will show if you have the one true courage. To know that you have failed, that your best efforts have been defeated, to not be able to stand it, to not be able to go on and yet to go on nonetheless.

I got a rock.

Those who don't try are destine for failure

When we fail we are merely joining the great parade of humanity that has walked ahead of us and will follow after us.

He challenged the world with his genius, and the world defeated him by ignoring the challenge and starving him. He stopped writing because he had failed and because he had no choice but to accept the world__ terms: there is no mystery here. This was not insanity, but common sense.

Denial of our pattern of failure seems to be a kind of practical atheism or chosen ignorance among many believers and clergy.

It was very quiet at the hotel, as if there had been a death in the family. When you have quit the Tour, nobody really knows what to say or do. (...) Everything I'd previously achieved meant nothing; all I was now was a pro rider who couldn't finish the Tour de France.

Sometimes stories get on my nerves--especially the ones where unfair things keep happening to the hero over and over, for no reason at all, and he valiantly overcomes it all.Life isn't like that.Not every hero can stay valiant. Sometimes, they can't even stay a hero, so what does that make them? A failure? A pussy? A total failure jerkwad with no hope on the horizon save finding a cemetery and digging rectangles in the ground for the town drunk?

Failure is our greatest teacherBlame blinds us to her lessons

A mistake of one man is not the mistake of mankind.

Appeal. Guy's like you get all excited about the appeal. Don't you see that I view the very existence of an appeal as a disastrous failure? No much worse, a personal affront of the highest order for which I blame you.

Whatever it takes to finish things, finish. You will learn more from a glorious failure than you ever will from something you never finished.

Think in terms of opportunities and solutions instead of problems, disappointment, and failure.

Many small businesses are doomed from day one, not from competition or the economy, but from the ignorance of their owners . . . their destiny is already decided because they have no idea how a business should be operated.

For thirty minutes I sat back and felt the glimmer of pride that historically precedes the most catastrophic falls.

Failure is becoming someone who needs others to fail.

Noble failure atones for the impossibility of resisting progress successfully.

Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.