After You Fail Quotes

#1. After you fail, which I have, you can either choose to crumble and retreat and become nonfunctional, which I've seen happen, or you can just become a lone wolf, forget about the cool kids and just continue to do your own thing.

Diablo Cody

#2. Failure doesn't define you. It's what you do after you fail that determines whether you are a leader or a waste of perfectly good air.

Sabaa Tahir

#3. I do believe Jesus died so we could feel freed up to go after life to the full, so we would feel equpped to take risks and not beat ourselves up when we fail. He didn't die to make our lives look perfect. He died so we could stop feeling as if our lives have to be perfect for them to mean something.

Mandy Steward

#4. I want to go after dreams that are destined to fail without diving intervention.

Mark Batterson

#5. I'm 48. For a while after 'The Jerk' (movie) I had a feeling of failure. I was a little scared. First people discover you and they love you. You get big and then you fail. And people are glad that you fail. But I've always come back and I've started to trust myself.

Steve Martin

#6. My dear friend, I may be dense,' replied Humblot after having taken a brief and clearly bewildering glance at the opening of the novel, 'but I fail to see why a chap needs thirty pages to describe how he tosses and turns in bed before falling asleep.

Alain De Botton

#7. I do have a feeling that I may fail. But wait, be it only after I try.

Abhijit Haldar

#8. The biggest reason most people fail is that they try to fix too much at once - join a gym, get out of debt, floss after meals and have thinner thighs in 30 days.

Marilu Henner

#9. Compared to my talents, Whoopi Goldberg is like one of those fake plastic Buddhas you get at dollar stores. I mean really, I fail to see the humor in an overweight negro woman with dreadlocks, no eyebrows, and is named after a childish term for flatulence.

Zach Braff

#10. He could imagine the college rejection letters now.
'After learning that one kiss and a sleepless night led you to fail a test, we have decided you are no longer a fit for our institution.

Brigid Kemmerer

#11. You see people in Hollywood trying to make blockbuster after blockbuster, but it's not possible. There's some god up there saying, 'You will fail now.' But I suppose that's true of us all.

Ian McKellen

#12. Life is filled with tests, one after another, and if you don't recognize them, you are certain to fail the most important ones.

Brian Herbert

#13. All partnerships fail in the end, just like marriages. The only life after death any human being will ever know is staying in a marriage or a partnership after it's over. And that's not life - it's living death.

Greg Iles

#14. After the fire died down, what remained were two charred hearts, that once beat as one.

Anthony Liccione

#15. Just as an athlete with natural gifts may fail to develop the fundamental skills necessary to play their sport after their talent fades, so people naturally disposed to faith may fail to develop the skills necessary to sustain them for a lifetime.

Stanley Hauerwas

#16. Don't you know that day dawns after night, showers displace drought, and spring and summer follow winter? Then, have hope! Hope forever, for God will not fail you!

Charles Spurgeon

#17. I have seen many successful people fail after they start fearing they might lose what they have built.

Guy Laliberte

#18. After saying all that, what have we said, my God, my life, my holy sweetness? What does anyone who speaks of you really say? Yet woe betide those who fail to speak, while the chatterboxes go on saying nothing.

Augustine Of Hippo

#19. After I had given up to go, the thoughts of the journey were often attended with unusual sadness, at which times my heart was frequently turned to the Lord with inward breathings for his heavenly support, that I might not fail to follow him wheresoever he might lead me.

John Woolman

#20. To do good to one is to do bad to another. But you don't need to hear my excuses. They are the same that everyone makes to themselves when faced with the misery of others; though they would like to do the right thing, they simply fail to do so and look after themselves instead.

Fay Weldon

#21. Lack of leadership can have fearsome consequences. A dog's mental health, after all, depends to a large degree on leadership: dogs get enormously distressed when they think no one is in charge. Accordingly, it's not only nonsensical to fail to establish rules and limits with a dog ... but cruel.

Caroline Knapp

#22. The world will call you a failure. Listen well, then realize, they are wrong. After that, get up and fail better.

Jennifer Megan Varnadore

#23. Impulse is, after all, the best linguist; its logic, if not conformable to Aristotle, cannot fail to be most convincing.

Henry David Thoreau

#24. The shark had never begged Jonah in order to get him swallowed; Jonah's own actions took him into the shark's belly! Failure may not chase after you, but when you miss your way, you will rather go chasing failure!

Israelmore Ayivor

#25. Everyone was born with thought and dream...after a lot of time they just gave up. The life went upon their waist, they couldn't handle it and they fail!

Deyth Banger

#26. Is it not better to fail after asking advice than to risk acting on our own?

Vincent De Paul

#27. Strive to discover the mystery
before life is taken from you.
If while living you fail to find yourself,
to know yourself,
how will you be able to understand
the secret of your existence
after you die?

Farid Al-Din Attar

#28. This is why we have music, after all. Words cannot always do the work we need them to. Music is there for when words fail us. Finally

Patrick Rothfuss

#29. We're the league of the guilty, after all, not the league of the shortly-to-become-good. We are a work in progress. We will always be a work in progress. We will always fail, and it will always matter.

Francis Spufford

#30. Although one may fail to find happiness in theatrical life, one never wishes to give it up after having once tasted its fruits.

Anna Pavlova

#31. Fruits fail and love dies and time ranges;
Thou art fed with perpetual breath,
and alive after infinite changes,
And fresh from the kisses of death,
Of langours rekindled and rallied,
Of barren delights and unclean,
Things monstrous and fruitless, a pallid
And poisonous queen.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

#32. Because failure isn't what shapes us, it's what we do after we fail.

J.S. Cooper

#33. Over time as most people fail the survivor's exacting test of trustworthiness, she tends to withdraw from relationships. The isolation of the survivor thus persists even after she is free.

Judith Lewis Herman

#34. Everyone liked Robin. He liked Robin. How could he fail to like her, after everything they had been through together? However, from the very first he had told himself: this far and no further. A distance must be maintained. Barriers must remain in place.

Robert Galbraith

#35. Words are a means to an end. Those who chase after them inevitably fail to reach that end.

Anthony Marais

#36. Failing is great! Isn't it? I mean, it sets you free and, after all, failures are the pillars of success. So, you must fail!

Abhishek Ratna

#37. I felt like it was inevitable that I was going to fail in life and die young. So I was frantically scrambling to document my stunts and pack my message into a bottle. I thought maybe I could be discovered after I'd died, like Van Gogh.

Steve-O

#38. I am not predicting here that Obama will fail like Jimmy Carter. What I am predicting is the Republican Party is not extinct and will after a period of time become a strong opposition party.

Ed Rollins

#39. You may lose paradise, but gain heaven when you rise up and repent. The success that comes after a temporal failure is an amazing spectacular!

Israelmore Ayivor

#40. We often search for the gold in our life but we fail to understand that all glisters are not gold, When we understand our mistake it's too late, So never run after anything, Just wait for the right time to get the best in life.

Debolina Bhawal

#41. To this motive which encourages me is added another which made up my mind: after I have upheld, according to my natural intelligence, the side of truth, no matter what success I have, there is a prize which I cannot fail to win. I will find it in the depths of my heart.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#42. To fail at trying is worse than to fail after trying. If we never try, then we never learn.

Lindsey Rietzsch

#43. If you # fail , learn. If you succeed, relish your # success . You can only know the sweet taste of # victory after many bitter struggles.

Robert Kiyosaki

#44. If we look to our responsibility to the generations yet unborn who will come after us, how can we fail to recognize that peace and freedom are inextricably bound up one with another and that the threat to one is a threat to both

Winston Churchill

#45. Don't take rest after your first victory because if you fail in second, more lips are waiting to say that your first victory was just luck.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

#46. Yet, should our feeble efforts nought avail, Should, after all, our best endeavours fail; Still, let some mercy in your bosoms live, And, if you can't applaud, at least forgive.

George Gordon Byron

#47. So after that I had a new rule. If I'm hired by the plant engineer, I only go over his head if I'm in project failure mode. If the project is going to fail, then I'll go over his head. But as long as the project is going to come out, I never go over his head. Now, that's a rule I still follow today.

Robert Greene

#48. Most ventures fail in the early stages because people stop trying after they're told no too many times.

Adam Braun

#49. After my experiences with the 5:2 diet, I wasn't interested in a short-term fix that would fail later. I wanted a way of eating that made me lose weight without feeling deprived.

Kate Christensen

#50. Second Changes Are not given to make things right, But to prove that we could be better even after we fail

Wendy Prince

#51. And if after all this you eventually fail; don't take it personal. Don't be ashamed to start all over again.

Richard Branson

#52. This is a terrible confession to make, but after I left the Army I had a number of things to try. I had a great conceit to think that if all else failed I could always go to Hollywood. So when all else did fail I really went to Hollywood. And then I found out how wrong I was.

David Niven

#53. If we fail to look after others when they need help, who will look after us?

Gautama Buddha

#54. At every Christmas, I fail to remember the daughters' shoe sizes, and they are not growing, but grown. After ostensible hard thought about who needs what, I have failed to give good gifts; I have failed to receive good gifts.

Padgett Powell

#55. You need only do three things in this country to avoid poverty - finish high school, marry before having a child, and marry after the age of 20. Only 8 percent of the families who do this are poor; 79 percent of those who fail to do this are poor.

William Galston

#56. A minuscule 4 percent of funds produce market-beating after-tax results with a scant 0.6 percent (annual) margin of gain. The 96 percent of funds that fail to meet or beat the Vanguard 500 Index Fund lose by a wealth-destroying margin of 4.8 percent per annum.

David F. Swensen

#57. After more than sixty years of almost daily reading of the Bible, I never fail to find it always new and marvelously in tune with the changing needs of every day.

Cecil B. DeMille

#58. Most people have the opportunity of a lifetime flash right in front of them, and they fail to see it. A year later, they find out about it, after everyone else got rich.

Robert Kiyosaki

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

Richard Rohr

#60. In the ordinary course of things, how many succeed in society merely by virtue of their manners, while others, however meritorious, fail through lack of them? After all, it's only barbarians who wear uncut precious stones.

Lord Chesterfield

#61. Go after a dream that is destined to fail without divine intervention.

Mark Batterson

#62. It is the common experience, after all, that things that are well written are not only read with enjoyment by those who come to them for the first time, but also do not fail to be enjoyed when read again by those who know them and whose memory of them has not faded away.

Augustine Of Hippo

#63. I cannot give a single concert at which I do not play one piece after the other in an agony of terror because my memory threatens to fail me. This fear torments me for days beforehand.

Clara Schumann

#64. Every successful painter has worked hard. He cannot rest after having gained a certain degree of facility in drawing, and expect to retain it. He must advance or fall behind. Without practice he will forget; his eye will fail him; and his hand will deny its master.

Walter J. Phillips

#65. After all, what good is a life saved if you fail to live it?

Lisa Wingate

#66. How do you top 'Mormon?' I get sent scripts all the time and I don't know what I would do next. What do you do after that? So I think if you do see me onstage, you'll see me in something dramatic, maybe, or you'll see me try my hand at something else. Perhaps fail, terribly, but try.

Josh Gad

#67. When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

#68. Don't let your hopes or fears come between you and Jesus; follow hard after Him. He will never fail you.

Charles Spurgeon

#69. No matter how often we fail in any endeavor, we never get used to the feeling of depression that assails us after each successive failure.

Jim Corbett