failure

The reason God never fails is because he fears to fail

Forget seizing the moment. Seize the opportunity.

No one knows, and few conceive, the agony of mind that I have suffered from the time that I was made by circumstances, and not by my volition, a candidate for the Presidency till I was dismissed from that station by the failure of my election.

He had read lots of stories where heroes succeeded in spite of long odds, where they accomplished a task that everyone else had failed at. He wondered for the first time about all the people who'd gone before those heroes, about whether they'd been at each other's throats, before everything had gone wrong. He wondered if there was a point where they realized they weren't going to make it, weren't going to beat those long odds--that in the legend that would follow, they were going to be the nameless people that failed.

As a man, I was a failure. A pathetic teacher lusting after Catholic school girls in short skirts. As a monster, I'm superb. It's comforting to know my place in the world.

A natural response when people feel overwhelmed is to retreat into various forms of passivity. If we don__ try too much in life, if we limit our circle of action, we can give ourselves the illusion of control. The less we attempt, the less chances of failure. If we can make it look like we are not really responsible for our fate, for what happens to us in life, then our apparent powerlessness is more palatable.

I do not fear failure. I only fear the "slowing up" of the engine inside of me which is pounding, saying, "Keep going, someone must be on top, why not you?

I've concluded that I learned far more from my failures than from my successes.

The fear of failure is a liability.

There is only one reason of YOUR failure..'You

Get out of failure-o-phobia to enjoy success-o-mania.

Failure is when you accept it, otherwise it's just another obstacle.

After all is said and done, I believe the true measure of success is how many times you can bounce back from failure.

I see Jenna, smiling, chattering. And failing. When you are perfect, is there anywhere else to go?

To be defeated is only a fable in which one may tell of oneself. I will try and I will try again, though never shall I call it failure. I am simply one step closer to thy truth.

If you employed a strategy that is not conducive to the results you are looking for, then you will not achieve the desired result. You have to understand that it__ not you that failed; it__ just that you employed the wrong strategy.

What a brilliant cover story. In a success-obsessed society like this one, what's the best rock to hide something under? It's the rock called failure.

What we have not chosen we cannot consider either to our merit or our failure.