Failures don’t define you. Your determination does. Keep your head up!

Success is not final. Failure is not fatal. It’s the courage to continue that counts.

You have a lot to learn. Unfortunately for you, your time for learning is over.

I never knew a storm so gray it failed to have its clearing day.

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail. It’s just a matter of time and your dreams will be realized.

Remember to keep your head up, even in failure.

Instead of letting your hardships and failures discourage or exhaust you, let them inspire you.

Edison failed 10,000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

I think it’s important to have a good hard failure when you’re young. I learned a lot out of that. Because it makes you kind of aware of what can happen to you. Because of it I’ve never had any fear in my whole life when we’ve been near collapse and all of that. I’ve never been afraid. I’ve never had the feeling I couldn’t walk out and get a job doing something.

Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.

Life has knocked me down a few times, it showed me things I never wanted to see. I experienced sadness and failures. But one thing

I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.

You only fail when you stop trying, so just keep on moving forward!

Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.

Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

Every adversity, every failure and every heartache carries with it the seed of an equivalent or a greater benefit.

Failure is the opportunity to start over again more intelligently.

Starting over is opportunity informed by failure, which is opportunity made intelligent.

Forgive yourself your failures, but resume. Fall down, pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start over again. One teacher liked to say ‘Fall down

Let go of your mistakes and failures. You can’t do anything about the past, but you can do something about right now.

Stanley was right. I never hit another home run. I struck out most of the time. But they always remembered that home run and while they still hated me, it was a better kind of hatred, like they weren’t quite sure why.

Hell, I’d even failed with women. Three wives. Nothing really wrong each time. It all got destroyed by petty bickering. Railing about nothing. Getting pissed-off over anything and everything. Day by day, year by year, grinding. Instead of helping each other you just sliced away, picked at this or that. Goading. Endless goading. It became a cheap contest. And once you got into it, it became habitual. You couldn’t seem to get out. You almost didn’t want to get out. And then you did get out. All the way.

sitting here watching the second hand on the TIMEX go
around and
around…
this will hardly be a night to remember
sitting here searching for blackheads on the back of my neck
as other men enter the sheets with dolls of flame
I look into myself and find perfect emptiness.
I am out of cigarettes and don’t even have a gun to point.
this writer’s block is my only possession.
the second hand on the TIMEX still goes around and around…
I always wanted to be a writer
now I’m one who can’t.

might as well go downstairs and watch late night tv with the wife
she’ll ask me how it went
I’ll wave a hand nonchalantly
settle down next to her
and watch the glass people fail
as I have failed.

I’m going to walk down the stairway now

what a sight:

an empty man being careful not to trip and bang his empty head.

Human beings are the only creatures who are allowed to fail. If an ant fails, it’s dead. But we’re allowed to learn from our mistakes and from our failures. And that’s how I learn, by falling flat on my face and picking myself up and starting all over again.

No mistake or failure is as bad as to stop and not try again.

We thought surely you would join us for the New Year’s banquet, but you failed to do so. Such a shame. Akito was especially distressed

I’m the one who owes you an apology. I’m the one who failed to protect you. Thank you for everything, Kana. It’s alright now. It’s

Hold your head high, gorgeous, for they will kill to see you fall.

Let old memories and failures slip away and embrace the new month with a smile and appreciation. Dream new dreams, set new goals, and aim a little higher.

To start over after failing the initial dream is part of our maturing process.

“I am not a complete person — I’m a stunted city person. I am more or less a failed drizzling shit with absolutely nothing to offer.”
“Christ,” she said, “don’t you think I know that?”

there is moss on the walls
and the stain of thought and failure and
waiting.

I once had a competition with adjectives, and I won, because adjectives failed to give me a word that described how much you mean to me. I love you more than words could ever describe.

J. K. Rowling was on welfare when she wrote the first Harry Potter book and has stated that she considered herself “the biggest failure I knew,” but this didn’t stop her.

The trouble with those of us who fail to achieve what we desire, is not that we lack the ability to do so, but that we lack the faith implicit in the “Let Go And Let God” principle, which dictates whatever is necessary for us to reach our goal will indeed occur.

Front Three: The Progress Reports: We’re going to hack into the faculty computer network and use their grading database to send out letters to Kevin et al.’s families saying that they are failing some of their classes.

It was the central moment of Alaska’s life. When she cried and told me that she fucked everything up, I knew what she meant now. And when she said she failed everyone, I know whom she meant. It was the everything and the everyone of her life.

Yeah, Pudge is adorable / but you want incorrigible / so Jake is more endurable / ’cause he’s so – damn. Damn. I almost had four rhymes on adorable. But all I could think of was unfloorable, which isn’t even a word.

And if after all this you eventually fail; don’t take it personal. Don’t be ashamed to start all over again.

You can’t fail if you don’t quit. You can’t succeed if you don’t start.

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.

Just get on with starting, the worst and the most surprising thing to ever expect is short term failure.

It was a sickness: this great interest in a medium that relentlessly and consistently failed, time after time after time, to produce anything at all. People became so used to seeing shit on film that they no longer realized it was shit.

Failure gave me strength. Pain was my motivation.

People are more obsessed with the idea of failing than the idea of succeeding.

I know success or failure in my life or ministry does not depend on my own skill or even on external circumstances, it depends only on my faithfulness. God will give me the gifts necessary to do whatever He calls me to do, and He will not be hindered in His work by circumstances.

Over commitment in business is usually due to a lack of faith, which results in fear – specifically, the fear of failure. But if we really believe God is in control, then we also should believe He’s able to make us successful while we are keeping our lives in balance.

When failure comes your way, you must always keep your head up and think positive.

Sometimes what I plan fails, but God always give me a better option.

If you fail the first time that’s just a chance to start over again.

It is not the failure that holds us back but the reluctance to begin over again that causes us to stagnate.

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

People who make decisions go to the top. Those who fail to make decisions go nowhere.

Keep your head up and smile, because someone somewhere wants to see you fail.

Don’t worry about failing, because you’re going to fail… probably quite often. Failing is an important part of learning. Many of the greatest lessons you’ll receive in life are going to come from your failures.

Do not give your attention to what others do or fail to do; give it to what you do or fail to do.

Keep your head up in failure and your head down in success.

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

Nothing’s a failure, it’s just not supposed to work out that way because something better is supposed to come along.

If at first you fail, try again. Start again with a new perspective, a new approach. Don’t be afraid to ask for help in the process.

If you fail at your first try, it’s really alright. Consider your next try as a new chance to start all over again!

Quite often very talented people FAIL because they believe they are too big to do the little things, while the most successful amongst us are quite willing to do the little things. They truly are BIG people.

Ritsu Sohma: I’m a complete failure. At everything I do, I’m absolutely worthless. I know this, and yet I continue to burden the human race with my presence. Every day I rob the world of valuable air by breathing. I’m a thief, and I hate myself for it. I don’t deserve to exist. But even though I know it’s the right thing to do, I’m such a useless coward. I don’t even have the courage to jump!
Tohru Honda: No, don’t! Don’t jump! It’s okay that you don’t have that kind of courage. The important thing is you’re alive. And life hurts sometimes and sometimes it can be hard, but it won’t always be that way. There’s gotta be a reason for you to live.

If you associate yourself with peer pressure or complacency, you’re destined for failure.

The white sheep will not walk one by one, slowly counted, over green lawns through the gap in the hedge. You can count the stars in the dark pond up to twenty but no further without rebellion. The nursery-taught methods of courting sleep fail one by one.

Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over again, and you will grow stronger until you have accomplished a purpose – not the one you began with perhaps, but one you’ll be glad to remember.

So we gave up. I’d finally had enough of chasing after a ghost who did not want to be discovered. We’d failed, maybe, but some mysteries aren’t meant to be solved.

Don’t settle for average. Bring your best to the moment. Then, whether it fails or succeeds, at least you know you gave all you had. We need to live the best that’s in us.

If all things fail now, I hope you remember that I told you to never settle for less, ever.

“I’m the eldest!” Sophie shrieked. “I’m a failure!”
“Garbage!” Howl shouted. “You just never stop to think!”

There was a time when everyone seemed to be telling me [that Sophie is under a spell]. Even Calcifer did—when I asked him. But do you honestly think I don’t know my own business well enough not to spot a strong spell like that when I see it? I had several goes at taking it off you when you weren’t looking. But nothing seems to work. I took you to Mrs. Pentstemmon, hoping she could do something, but she evidently couldn’t. I came to the conclusion that you liked being in disguise.

All of it has made me grateful. The high points. The low points. The good fortunes. The lessons learned. The failures and setbacks that have occurred. The retorts. Everything.

For survivors, the word closure often connotes that the bereaved are underachievers who flunked a grief course.

Even an Englishman was niver improved by bein’ blown up.

Failure is not meant to be final and fatal…. It is meant to refine you to be all that you are meant to be.