Top 80 Quotes About Failing At Life
#1. By failing to value your time, you are devaluing your life.
Debasish Mridha
#2. The American family is failing in its job of turning out stable human beings ... It is failing because Americans do not dare to cultivate in themselves those characteristics which would make family life creative and rewarding. To do so, would ruin them financially.
Margaret Halsey
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. Any other foundation will fail, but Christ is a sure and steady rock to build your life on.
Billy Graham
#12. It has been said that if you aim at nothing in life, you are likely to hit nothing! I have never had anyone come to me and say, 'Venita, I plan to fail.' Yet I have observed many who failed to plan and who unfortunately met with the same dismal results.
Venita VanCaspel
#13. 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
#14. I think the failure of The American church to affirm the goodness of civilizational life is our greatest failing today.
Greg Forster
#15. For the first time in her life she found herself failing at something.
Jane Green
#16. You will only fail to learn if you do not learn from failing.
Stella Adler
#17. Failing to grapple with complexity actually turns out to be a pretty bad life strategy.
John Green
#18. Failing to win is not important, but failing to participate is.
Debasish Mridha
#19. 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
#20. Do not say before hand what you are going to do; for if you fail, you will be laughed at.
Pittacus Of Mytilene
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. One is not, my dear sir, a superior man merely because one sees the world in an odious light. One only hates mankind and life itself through failing to look deeply enough.
Francois-Rene De Chateaubriand
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. Life and death- what paltry words, what tarnished bookends,what unjust summation for drawing breath one moment and failing to release it the next.
Rebecca Rasmussen
#27. Nobody adopts antisocial behaviour unless they fear that they will fail if they remain on the social side of life.
Alfred Adler
#28. 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
#29. The most creative and most periods of my life that were, had the most growth, were the ones where I was perceived to be failing. Perceived success is a, is really hard 'cause it doesn't really, it's not asking you to grow, see failure is asking you to grow.
Ethan Hawke
#30. 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
#31. 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
#32. Watching somebody else fail definitely makes you feel better with what you've accomplished and where your standing is in life.
Shiri Appleby
#33. 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
#34. I'll fail."
"At schoool.""Failing at school is failing at life.
Ned Vizzini
#35. I complain about my life. I used to complain about boys or not being able to drive or failing a test. Now I complain about boys, not being able to drive, and leaving home so much.
Gabourey Sidibe
#36. It is better to fail at your own life than to succeed at someone else's.
Andre Gide
#38. 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
#39. 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
#40. 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
#41. If you want to live a creative life, get efficient at failing.
Matthew Donnelly
#42. When the hypocrisy of life appears we often fail to recognise it or the question it raises
Jeremy Griffith
#43. 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
#44. 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
#45. A Gallagher Girl's real grades don't come in pass or fail - they're measured in life or death.
Ally Carter
#47. The true self is always in motion like music, a river of life, changing, moving, failing, suffering, learning, shining,
Brenda Ueland
#48. 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
#49. 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.
#50. How much of life have I missed, he wondered, simply by failing to look? Or by looking and not seeing?
Irvin D. Yalom
#51. The Fear of failure is the greatest fear of man. Even the fear of death is fear of failing to continue life.
Anup Kochhar
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. 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
#55. 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
#56. The human spirit fails, except when the Holy Spirit fills.
Corrie Ten Boom
#57. 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
#58. 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
#59. 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
#60. If you live life so cautiously as to never fail, you end up failing at life itself.
J.S.B. Morse
#61. 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
#62. The only thing missing from your life is what you're failing to bring to it.
Brent Smith
#63. 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
#64. 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
#65. You're never too old to keep failing your children, are you? Why weren't we told this was a life sentence?
Beth Gutcheon
#66. The desecration of women indicated the failure of human beings to honor and protect life and that this failing would, if we did not correct it, be the end of us all. p. xxxii
Eve Ensler
#67. If it all looks good on the surface, I'll know I've failed at life
Julia Hoban
#68. The true Losers in Life, are not those who Try and Fail, but those who Fail to Try.
Jess C. Scott
#69. Because I'm attractive and sucessful so if I can't get a man I must be failing at something?
Jane Green
#70. There is a deep contradiction in failing to enjoy life and yet fearing death when faced with it.
Yoshida Kenko
#71. I would be a winner because I was a loser! That's right. I dream of failure every night of my life, and that's my secret. To makeit in this rat race you have to dream of failing every day. I mean, that is reality.
Donald Freed
#72. The temples are a refuge from life's storms even a never-failing beacon guiding us to safety.
Thomas S. Monson
#73. Succeeding is not really a life experience that does that much good. Failing is a much more sobering and enlightening experience.
Michael Eisner
#74. 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
#75. 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
#76. 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
#77. His death had been as futile as his life. He died ingloriously, of a stupid disease, failing once more, even at the end, to accomplish anything.
W. Somerset Maugham
#78. 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
#79. 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
#80. 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