Top 100 Failing Life Quotes
#2. Why, if those were my images of death, did I remain so unable to accept the fact that he had died? Was it because I was failing to understand it as something that had happened to him? Was it because I was still understanding it as something that had happened to me? Life
Joan Didion
#3. My business in life has been to think and learn, and to speak out with absolute freedom what I have thought and learned. The freedom is itself a positive and never-failing enjoyment to me, after the bondage of my early life.
Harriet Martineau
#4. Solitude is so necessary both for society and for the individual that when society fails to provide sufficient solitude to develop the inner life of the persons who compose it, they rebel and seek false solitudes.
Thomas Merton
#5. What could I do? What do you do to make up for failing everyone in your life? How do you make it right? How do you apologize for hideous things you never intended to happen?
Jim Butcher
#6. Failing often is the only way to ever get the things you want out of life.
David McRaney
#7. Claritypoint: A fear-based philosophy about life (seeing life as a testing center) can prevent you from seeing yourself and situations accurately.- A fear of failing skews your perspective and distracts you from learning and loving.
Kimberly Giles
#8. Sometimes when you start losing detail, whether it's in music or in life, something as small as failing to be polite, you start to lose substance.
Benny Goodman
#9. Many times in your life you may think you are failing, but ultimately you will express yourself and that expression will justify your life.
Irving Stone
#10. I am a responsible parent and have always provided for my children. That fact cannot be disputed. I have made mistakes in my life, but failing to care for my children is not one of them.
Jamal Lewis
#11. People go through life failing to see all sorts of amazing things because they aren't expecting to see them.
Dean Koontz
#12. The saddest of all failures is that of a soul, with its capabilities and possibilities, failing of life everlasting, and entering upon that night of death upon which morning never dawns.
Herrick Johnson
#13. I've heard all my life that 'this is impossible, you can't make' it and 'you're going to fail' but I didn't listen to them and I made it.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#15. The aim is to produce specific results by your actions, so you begin to do things on purpose. If I leave things to chance, I am losing the plot to make success deliberate, meaning I am increasing my chances of failing in any given task.
Archibald Marwizi
#16. Succeeding is not really a life experience that does that much good. Failing is a much more sobering and enlightening experience.
Michael Eisner
#17. The temples are a refuge from life's storms even a never-failing beacon guiding us to safety.
Thomas S. Monson
#18. There is a deep contradiction in failing to enjoy life and yet fearing death when faced with it.
Yoshida Kenko
#19. Because I'm attractive and sucessful so if I can't get a man I must be failing at something?
Jane Green
#20. The true Losers in Life, are not those who Try and Fail, but those who Fail to Try.
Jess C. Scott
#21. If it all looks good on the surface, I'll know I've failed at life
Julia Hoban
#22. You're never too old to keep failing your children, are you? Why weren't we told this was a life sentence?
Beth Gutcheon
#23. Sooner or later, the man who learnt lessons from his failures will be the one to be sought first for guidance, counsel and formula on how to be successful in life's endeavours.
Ogwo David Emenike
#24. No human ever became interesting by not failing. The more you fail and recover and improve, the better you are as a person. Ever meet someone who's ALWAYS had EVERYTHING work out for them with ZERO struggle? They usually have the depth of a puddle. Or they don't exist.
Chris Hardwick
#25. The only thing missing from your life is what you're failing to bring to it.
Brent Smith
#26. Even if we fail, we are still gaining life experience. The worst thing that could happen is that we come out smarter and more prepared for our next challenge.
Jane Powell
#27. Whoever fails to turn aside the ills of life by prudent forethought, must submit to fulfill the course of destiny.
Friedrich Schiller
#30. The arguments for purity of life fail of their due influence, not because they have been considered and confuted, but because they have been passed over without consideration.
Samuel Johnson
#31. It is desire that engenders belief; if we fail as a rule to take this into account, it is because most of the desires that create beliefs end only with out own life.
Marcel Proust
#32. You must get your living by loving. But as it is said of the merchants that ninety-seven in a hundred fail, so the life of men generally, tried by this standard, is a failure, and bankruptcy may be surely prophesied.
Henry David Thoreau
#33. Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be. Hurrah!
Sean O'Casey
#34. You can't live without failing at something, unless you love so cautiously you might as well have nit lived at all, in which case, you fail be default.
J.K. Rowling
#35. Failing sucks. But it's better than the alternative."
"Which is?"
"Not even trying." Now he did look at me, straight on. "Life's short, you know?
Sarah Dessen
#36. You must not end your life because you failed an examination. Failing an examination or making a mistake does not make you a failure at life. The context of life is broader than that.
Archibald Marwizi
#37. Permanent remorse about failing to do your human duty, in my opinion, can be worse than losing your life.
Miep Gies
#38. Average is a failing plan! Average doesn't work in any area of life. Anything that you give only average amounts of attention to will start to subside and will eventually cease to exist.
Grant Cardone
#39. I think at times I read too much of my own press. I wish I was better at taking in how great my life is, but that's surprisingly elusive. I tend to be very hard on myself and insecure about failing no matter what happens.
Seth MacFarlane
#40. What surprises me in life are not the marriages that fail, but the marriages that succeed.
Rita Hayworth
#41. (The subjects of What Should I Do With The Rest Of My Life) have convinced me that past failing can as easily prove preparatory as predictive. Age does not of itself limit on enable us. The choice is ours.
Bruce Frankel
#42. Failing adds to your experience, Success adds to your self-image. In life everything has its bright sides, you just need to perceive life positively, and focus on what you have instead of complaining on what you can't have
Jeekeshen Chinnappen
#43. My body trembled as all the regrets of my life washed through me, my heart feeling as if it were on the verge of failing. My sould cried out for her. It had never stopped its search for her in nine years, and I could still feel her calling for me.
A.L. Jackson
#44. What do you want?" I was trying so hard to stay calm, and failing miserably. Rrrrrrip. I felt cool air on my navel. "To make you come" - rrrripppp - "harder than you ever have in your life.
Jasinda Wilder
#45. But I think for the first time in my life, something has mattered enough for me to take a chance. I'm way more terrified of losing you than I ever could be of trying and failing.
Penelope Ward
#46. Jo couldn't even lose her heart in a decorous manner, but sternly tried to quench her feelings, and failing to do so, led a somewhat agitated life. She was mortally afraid of being laughed at for surrendering, after her many and vehement declarations of independence.
Louisa May Alcott
#47. By failing to let others be themselves before God and move at their own pace, we inevitably project onto them our own discomfort with their choice to live life differently than we do.
Peter Scazzero
#48. When I was growing up I noticed something. Every time I wanted to do something and I feared that I will fail, I always ended up failing. In life, whatever you fear always happen to you.
A.B. Joseph
#49. You do not fail in life, you only produce results, and you have the right to learn and grow from any results that you produce.
Wayne Dyer
#50. You are not here by accident today," she said. "God has a plan and purpose for your life. People are so afraid of failing, but if God wants you to do something, you don't have to worry about failing because God gets results. He gives you wisdom to do what he wants you to do.
Judy Christie
#51. Failing to grapple with complexity actually turns out to be a pretty bad life strategy.
John Green
#52. I'll fail."
"At schoool.""Failing at school is failing at life.
Ned Vizzini
#53. I grieved, but a part of me felt a lightening of a burden that I had carried all my life: that I could never be worthy of them, that I would always disappoint or fail them. As an unknown slave in the fields of the baron, I knew the worst was over. I had failed them. At least I could not do so again
Megan Whalen Turner
#54. Failure does not exist. Failure is simply someone else's opinion of how a certain act should have been completed. Once you believe that no act must be performed in any specific other-directed way, then failing becomes impossible.
Wayne Dyer
#55. Whenever you see me somewhere succeeding in one area of my life, that almost certainly means I am failing in another area of my life.
Shonda Rhimes
#56. One cannot withdraw from the life of the community. Injury to one member of it cannot fail to be the concern of all.
Patricia Wentworth
#57. Nobody adopts antisocial behaviour unless they fear that they will fail if they remain on the social side of life.
Alfred Adler
#58. Life will throw everything but the kitchen sink in your path, and then it will throw the kitchen sink. It's your job to avoid the obstacles. If you let them stop you or distract you, you're not doing your job, and failing to do your job will cause regrets that paralyze you more than a bad back.
Andre Agassi
#59. Life can be about taking chances and finding really great things and yes, failing sometimes. Or it can be about wondering what if because you never dared to try.
Lauren Dane
#60. I guess we're all guilty at some point of failing to appreciate the small things, because when we use a broad brush to paint our exemplary lives, we splatter ourselves with ignorance.
Danielle Esplin
#61. Precarity designates that politically induced condition in which certain populations suffer from failing social and economic networks of support and become differentially exposed to injury, violence, and death.
Judith Butler
#62. Do not say before hand what you are going to do; for if you fail, you will be laughed at.
Pittacus Of Mytilene
#63. We keep waiting for another Mahatma to make a difference in our society and nation. Well it is time to stop waiting. The mantra is "I change to change India". Which means each of us is the Mahatma and has the power to change this nation. Failing which we shall never change for the better.
Jeroninio Almeida
#64. It is better to fail at your own life than to succeed at someone else's.
Andre Gide
#65. You will only fail to learn if you do not learn from failing.
Stella Adler
#66. For the first time in her life she found herself failing at something.
Jane Green
#67. You are likely to fall when you stop paddling your bicycle. Such is life. As long as you don't give up, you will never end up failing!
Israelmore Ayivor
#68. How do you get up in the morning? Another wasted life it's so boring The system never failed you You failed yourself and all of your friends Now your heart is failing too A total system failure they pronounce you
Juliana Hatfield
#69. We will all fail in life, but nobody has to be a failure. Failing at a thing doesn't make you a failure. You are only a failure when you quit trying.
Joyce Meyer
#70. I would never be part of anything. I would never really belong anywhere, and I knew it, and all my life would be the same, trying to belong, and failing. Always something would go wrong. I am a stranger and I always will be, and after all I didn't really care.
Jean Rhys
#71. The scariest thing in my life is the first morning of production on all my movies. It's the fear of failing, the loss of face, and a sense of guilt that everybody puts their faith in you and not coming through.
Tony Scott
#72. Everyone has the ability to accomplish unique feats, everyone. You choose this. Become someone great in one other life. Forget about failing to many. Who cares? Doesn't matter when you start or finish, just start, no deviations, no excuses.
Tom Platz
#73. 35 "Everyone has a dream, a vision, a goal and a desire. Just because we have bigger dreams than others doesn't mean they don't have one. Sometimes we just too lazy to make it happen or are scared of failing."
But trying is better than not doing anything at all.
Kcat Yarza
#74. He wanted her the rest of his life, and failing that, he wanted permission to walk along beside her while she lived it.
William Gay
#75. If I could get the ear of every young man but for one word, it would be this: make the most and best of yourself. There is no tragedy like a wasted life
a life failing of its true end, and turned to a false end.
Thornton T. Munger
#76. Most of the reason we don't do things is because we're afraid to fail. I just made a decision one day that I was not not going to do things in my life because of fear.
Sara Blakely
#77. If you live life so cautiously as to never fail, you end up failing at life itself.
J.S.B. Morse
#78. We don't have to be afraid of stepping out. We don't have to be afraid of failing. We only have to be afraid of not trusting God.
Jennifer L. Lane
#79. Life is really a travesty of will: it is a parade of learning how to lose people and improve at feigning indifference.
I suspect I shall always fail at this, and fail miserably. I do not know whether that is winning at life or failing at happiness.
Michelle Franklin
#80. Fighting is like life. You can do everything to a tee. You can show up and fail. That's no reason to quit.
Frank Mir
#81. The human spirit fails, except when the Holy Spirit fills.
Corrie Ten Boom
#82. I come from playing sports. I compete, so I gotta be better than I was last year. I gotta get better, and that better gotta come from just growing. From learning new stuff to working on it, experience it in life, and failing.
Common
#83. It was failing part of my Ph.D. that led me into novel-writing. By then I was 29, had remarried and had a second baby. It struck me that I'd lost my path in life and I felt frustrated. That's when I started to write.
Kate Atkinson
#84. Gods damn you, LOcke,'she whispered. The corners of her eyes glistened.
'Twice now? Look, uh, if I said the wrong thing
'
'No,' she said, wiping at her eyes, trying but failing to do so nonchalantly. 'No, the trouble is you said the right thing.
Scott Lynch
#85. Every challenge you encounter in life is a fork in the road. You have the choice to choose which way to go - backward, forward, breakdown or breakthrough.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
#86. The Fear of failure is the greatest fear of man. Even the fear of death is fear of failing to continue life.
Anup Kochhar
#87. How much of life have I missed, he wondered, simply by failing to look? Or by looking and not seeing?
Irvin D. Yalom
#88. Friends are an aid to the young, to guard them from error; to the elderly, to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action; to those in the prime of life, to assist them to noble deeds.
Aristotle.
#89. By failing to value your time, you are devaluing your life.
Debasish Mridha
#90. The true self is always in motion like music, a river of life, changing, moving, failing, suffering, learning, shining,
Brenda Ueland
#92. A Gallagher Girl's real grades don't come in pass or fail - they're measured in life or death.
Ally Carter
#93. If I'm not free to fail, I'm not free to take risks and everything in life that's worth doing involves a willingness to take a risk.
Madeleine L'Engle
#94. You can't keep failing. You can't keep being defiant and stubborn. You have to make changes. You need to turn your life around.
Khali Raymond
#95. When the hypocrisy of life appears we often fail to recognise it or the question it raises
Jeremy Griffith
#96. If you want to live a creative life, get efficient at failing.
Matthew Donnelly
#97. Something about the music of nature and the dimming light loosened my tongue. "Music is my life. The only thing that made sense the last few years."
"I can't imagine you failing at anything.
Jenny B. Jones
#98. Without failing at one thing, there won't be an opportunity to try again, learn and grow. Life isn't static but dynamic. Learn to embrace whatever situation you may face and strive to overcome. Believe in yourself, knowing your best is yet to come.
Kemi Sogunle
#99. Because in life, the question is not if you will have problems, but how you are going to deal with them. Stop failing backward and start failing forward!
John C. Maxwell
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