Quotes About Continuous Failure

#1. Believe me, it is tough to deal with the social consequences of the appearance of continuous failure. We are social animals; hell is other people.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#2. At some point my need for a solution was replaced by the poetry of my continuous failure.

Charles Simic

#3. Now the only sure basis of an alliance is for each party to be equally afraid of the other

Thucydides

#4. The greatest gift you can bestow upon your children is your time and undivided attention.

Jim Brozina

#5. Success or failure is not a one day event, but continuous life process. Each day you succeed and each day you fail with life, and most of the time, success follows the failure.

Roshan Sharma

#6. In solitude, at last, we're able to let God define us the way we are always supposed to be defined - by relationship: the I-thou relationship, in relation to a Presence that demands nothing of us but presence itself. Not performance but presence

Richard Rohr

#7. Every book is a world.

Gabrielle Zevin

#8. Failure is an adventure for continuous learning.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#9. Feeling is the consciousness of the resulting conditions - of success, failure, equilibrium, compromise or balance, in this continuous rivalry of ideas.

James Mark Baldwin

#10. This was the sort of cruelty that only came from turned backs, from being ignored. Well-aimed lashes and direct blows were more easily understood. At least then the stricken knew their anguished cries were being heard.

Hugh Howey

#11. I live, I live, with an absolutely continuous sense of failure. I am always defeated, always. Every book is the wreck of a perfect idea. The years pass and one has only one life. If one has a thing at all one must do it and keep on and on and on trying to do it better.

Iris Murdoch