Sorry I'm A Failure Quotes

#1. I've seen high and lows. When things go well that doesn't make me feel like some genius. Nor will I allow the next disappointment to make me feel like a complete failure.

Ben Affleck

#2. I can afford to take a risk in my life. Only the insecure cannot afford to risk failure. The secure can be honest about themselves. They can admit failure. They are able to seek help and try again. They can change

John C. Maxwell

#3. There is only one reason that you ever fail at anything ... and that is because you eventually change your mind. That's it! ... anything and everything you have ever decided to do, you have succeeded, or will succeed, at doing.

Victor L. Wooten

#4. ( ... ) after an early dinner at The Egg and We, a recently inaugurated and not very successful little restaurant which Pnin frequented from sheer sympathy with failure ( ... )

Vladimir Nabokov

#5. If there is one lesson I've learned from failure and success, it's this. I am not the outcome. I am never the result. I am only the effort.

Kamal Ravikant

#6. Failure is an event, it is not a person.

Zig Ziglar

#7. As a people, we have become obsessed with Health. There is something fundamentally, radically unhealthy about all this. We do not seem to be seeking more exuberance in living as much as staving off failure, putting off dying. We have lost all confidence in the human body.

Lewis Thomas

#8. Positive mental attitude is the right mental attitude in all circumstances. Success attracts more success while failure attracts more failure.

Napoleon Hill

#9. Speculation is carried on in safety, but, when it comes to action, fear causes failure.

Thucydides

#10. There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible.

Elliot Richardson

#11. Some of the reasons John McCain lost in 2008 were his lackluster campaign, his refusal to showcase Obama's extreme liberalism and, thus, his failure to demonstrate why he would make a better president than Obama.

David Limbaugh

#12. Like caterpillars our metamorphosis begins with what comes from our mouth. Caterpillars spin silk cocoons from the mouth. We speak life or death, success or failure. All transformation starts with what comes from our mouth.

Brandi L. Bates

#13. When we learn to expect more success than failure in life, we soon will develop an attitude of success.

M. Russell Ballard

#14. Success without fulfillment is failure

Tony Robbins

#15. A casual attitude toward human hurt and pain is the surest sign of educational failure.

Norman Cousins

#16. I - and I still consider myself, I'm sorry to tell you, a Marxist and a Communist, but I couldn't help noticing how all the best Marxist analyses are always analyses of a failure.

Slavoj Zizek

#17. When a child makes a mistake or fails to accomplish a certain goal, we must avoid any word or action which indicates that we consider him a failure. 'Too bad that didn't work.' 'I'm sorry it didn't work out for you.' We need to separate the deed from the doer.

Rudolf Dreikurs

#18. If today shows no results, that doesn't mean the past wasn't working or the present isn't working. It just means we see only part of the picture. Faith believes God is working in every part of the process.

Deb Brammer

#19. Dwelling in failure won't change anything nor will it create a good outcome.

Yunho

#20. In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.

Abraham H. Maslow

#21. To punish failure is yet another way to encourage mediocrity.

Michael Eisner

#22. Procrastination and excuses are sour spices that spoil the sweet taste of an effective work. They must hence, not be prompted under desire, partly because they are strictly time-stripping and also because they have no known essence.

Israelmore Ayivor

#23. Failure is fantastic, because you meet yourself and get to know your limitations. This is how I express myself, and I can't do it any other way.

Billy Childish

#24. I believe there's only one regulation in life that works: failure.

Rick Santelli

#25. A closed door really is an open door in disguise.

Lindsey Rietzsch

#26. Success, after all, loves a witness, but failure can't exist without one.

Junot Diaz

#27. The whole system was based upon getting kids to a certain standard and packing their minds with information so they could go on to a good university ... The great failure in education, much of the time, is a lack of excitement and stimulus.

Bill Bryson

#28. Success is built on disappointment, and disappointment is inherent in all success.

Bette Davis

#29. I like to do matrices. One option per line, different facets for each column. Salary, location, happiness index, failure index, and all that.

Marissa Mayer

#30. As a man, I was a failure. A pathetic teacher lusting after Catholic school girls in short skirts. As a monster, I'm superb. It's comforting to know my place in the world.

Thomm Quackenbush

#31. The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance.
Remember, the greatest failure is to not try. Once you
find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.

Debbi Fields

#32. And each forgets, as he strips and runs With a brilliant, fitful pace, It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones Who win in the lifelong race. And each forgets that his youth has fled, Forgets that his prime is past, Till he stands one day, with a hope that's dead, In the glare of the truth at last.

Robert W. Service

#33. It's amazing - and poignant - to think that Leonardo (da Vinci)did consider himself as something of a failure. He didn't believe that he had achieved everything he might have done. His notebooks have a repeated refrain: 'Tell me if I ever did a thing.

Ross King

#34. All those sounds of her failure and regret would be left behind, and in their place there would be silence.

Eowyn Ivey