Failure Is Constant Quotes

#1. The only species of human beings that are immune to failure are those that are dead and gone. Failure is constant; just prepare to deal with it!

Israelmore Ayivor

#2. To be an artist was to have failure as your constant bedfellow.

M. Thomas Gammarino

#3. To find the courage to keep writing after constant failure is awesomeness. Winning is eminent.

Sereda Aleta Dailey

#4. Literature is an ethical leap. It is a moral decision. A perilous exercise in constant failure. Literature should have grievances, because there are so many grievances in the world.

Miguel Syjuco

#5. I believe it's our responsibility as citizens to get in there and not accept the constant failure of prisons to deal with racism, lack of privilege, and impoverishment - not accept any of that. Just get in there!

Jimmy Santiago Baca

#6. Whether or not there was room in her life for Tamani, Laurel knew that there was precious little room in Tamani's life for anything but Laurel. He lived to protect her, and he'd never failed her. Annoyed her, frustrated her, hurt her, maddened her - but never once failed her.

Aprilynne Pike

#7. So in life, some enter the services of fame and others money, but the best choice is that of those few who spend their time in the contemplation of nature, and as lovers of wisdom.

Pythagoras

#8. I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

Winston S. Churchill

#9. I like being able to have things that identify you in a brand without blatantly showing a logo.

Shaun White

#10. Sometimes I find bringing in my old ideas is just detrimental.

Bear McCreary

#11. I get asked, 'How can you have such failures in your films?' Well, what else is life about? There's some sense of constant failure in something. Humor gives you a distance from it.

Alexander Payne

#12. The effort to feel happy is often precisely the thing that makes us miserable. And that it is out constant efforts to eliminate the negative - insecurity, uncertainty, failure, or sadness - that is what causes us to feel so insecure, anxious, uncertain, or unhappy.

Oliver Burkeman

#13. The growing "epidemic" of stress, lifestyle diseases, and autoimmune diseases has no root cause according to mainstream medicine, yet that root cause seems simple to us: it's really an epidemic of not loving the self.

Louise L. Hay

#14. Amazing things happen when you stop hiding behind that hulking beast.

Gayle Forman

#15. Janie, Ah hope God may kill me, if Ah'm lyin'. Nobody else on earth kin hold uh candle tuh you, baby. You got de keys to de kingdom.

Zora Neale Hurston

#16. Life is an apprenticeship to the constant renunciations, to the steady failure of our claims, our hopes, our powers, our liberty.

Henri Frederic Amiel

#17. What's troubling is that because the camera is 3D, the northern part of the screen isn't necessarily north anymore. So the jungle transforms into the true meaning of a jungle. For someone with no sense of direction like myself, I get lost in the caves every time.

Hideo Kojima

#18. Responsibility for the creation of the good world in which the good life may be realized, which the frustrated ages of the past loaded upon the gods, is now being assumed by man. The ideal of this modern drift is the realization of the full joy in living.

Eustace Haydon

#19. I've flown halfway around the world to kiss a girl. I jumped on a plane and flew to Australia.

Geoff Stults

#20. The constant desire to win is a very American kind of trouble. Less glamorous gains made along the way--learning, wisdom, growth, and confidence, dealing with failure--aren't given the same respect because they can't be given a grade.

William Zinsser

#21. I think it's fairly common for writers to be afflicted with two simultaneous yet contradictory delusions, the burning certainty that we're unique geniuses, and the constant fear that we're witless frauds who are speeding toward epic failure.

Scott Lynch

#22. Success is transient. Failure makes us diligent. But yearning to succeed is constant.

Debasish Mridha

#23. By the way, the secret of speaking French is confidence. Whether you are right or wrong, you don't hesitate.

Joseph Epstein

#24. I end up writing about all kinds of things. I never make an attempt to write about anything in particular. I don't have a little list of topics to write about.

Tracy Chapman

#25. Any man who keeps working is not a failure. He may not be a great writer, but if he applies the old-fashioned virtues of hard, constant labor, he'll eventually make some kind of career for himself as writer.
[1967 interview]

Ray Bradbury

#26. Bush humble foreign policy was hijacked into nation-building.

Ron Paul