Failure Quotes

That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.

I am not concerned that you have fallen -- I am concerned that you arise.

My greatest concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are concerned with your failure.

Everybody said, "Follow your heart". I did, it got broken

Suicide is a confession of failure. And like divorce, it is shrouded in excuses and rationalizations...

Failure is becoming someone who needs others to fail.

A world where a majority had imbibed the lessons implicit within tragic art would be one in which th...

For the rest of history, for most of us, our bright promise will always fall short of being actualis...

To err is human, to forgive, divine.

Philosophy, as defined by Fichte, is the "science of sciences." Its aim was to solve the problems of...

I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fa...

If my attitude be on of fear, not faith, about the one who has disappointed me; if I say “Just what ...

And for all those years, we never talked about the disaster at the recital or my terrible accusation...

   Susan poured herself out some more wine. She said:   "You're nice. You must come and see me some ...

I dreamt -- marvellous error! -- that I had a beehive here inside my heart. And the golden bees were...

We need to accept that we won’t always make the right decisions, that we’ll screw up royally sometim...

You can't be paralyzed by fear of failure or you will never push yourself.

From my boyhood I have had an intense and overwhelming conviction that my real vocation lay in the d...

In my inmost heart I believed that I could succeed where others failed, and now I had the opportunit...

It is true that success is the most boring thing, it is tinny and brittle, failure runs deeper. Succ...

The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reac...

I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.

War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.

I counsel you, put down in record even your doubts and surmises. Hereafter it may be of interest to ...

A person needed to experience real danger or they would never find joy in excelling. There had to be...

There was no correcting past mistakes, especially since he could see no real 'mistakes' he had made....

You want to be competent? she thought. You want to learn to be in control of what goes on around you...

The sorrow of God lies in our fear of Him, our fear of life, and our fear of ourselves. He anguishes...

But if I've learned anything about the world of grace, it's that failure is always a chance for a do...

What makes authentic disciples is not visions, ecstasies, biblical mastery of chapter and verse, or ...

The reassuring smile was now useless. I was plastic. Everything was veiled. Objectivity, facts, hard...

Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward towards ...

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.

He possessed the logic of all good intentions and a knowledge of all the tricks of his trade, and ye...

There is nothing that teaches you more than regrouping after failure ad moving on. Yet most people a...

There is nothing that teaches you more than regrouping after failure and moving on. Yet most people ...

So, I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the t...

Look at Charlie Brown's face. Would you please hold still a minute Charlie Brown? I want Linus to st...

Lucy: You learn more when you lose Charlie Brown: Well then I must be the smartest person in world!!...

She felt as if she had somehow failed him and herself by allowing his mother’s behavior to upset her...

Houses built on bridges are scandals. A bridge wants to not be. If it could choose its shape, a brid...

The manager of my line told me, You never put anything down except to be read. Every word ever writt...

The failure to dissect the cause of war leaves us open for the next installment.

Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

Aim low and you won't be disappointed.

Success is most often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failu...

Failure is not an option. It just happens all the time. Like, all the time.

I took the sleeper out of Glasgow, and as the smelly old train bumped out of Central Station and acr...

He will know from and early age that failure is not disgrace. It's just a pitch that you missed, and...

Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.

Much of life is about failure, whether we acknowledge it or not, and your destiny is profoundly shap...

What if there was something essentially wrong with Claude Sylvanshine that wasn't wrong with other p...

We don't have time for such uncertainty because it reliably breeds indecision, and indecision is one...

Who is the man who can speak to the strong?Where is the fool who can talk to the wise?Men who are de...

People in the business will stay with you through drugs and alcohol and divorces and insanity and ev...

As Henry Moore carvedor modelled his sculpture every day,he strove to surpass Donatello4. and failed...

Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.

Don't worry about being effective. Just concentrate on being faithful to the truth.

The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong i...

Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a...

I think everyone fails, but there are so many kinds of failure.

The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the ...

And I will stop trying to fall in love again, and keep it a secret. It never works out anyway

Her failure was a useful preliminary to success.

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorio...

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

You can only arrive at mastery by practicing the techniques you have learned, facing challenges and ...

She posed as being more indolent than she felt, for fear of finding herself less able than she could...

When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when...

It's failure that gives you the proper perspective on success.

When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when...

Success is counted sweetest by those ne'er succeed.

There is nothing fiercer than a failed artist. The energy remains, but having no outlet, it implodes...

There is nothing fiercer than a failed artist. The energy remains, but, having no outlet, it implode...

I had drunk much wine and afterward coffee and Strega and I explained, winefully, how we did not do ...

She didn't like it," he said immediately."Of course she did.""She didn't like it," he insisted. "She...

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

We'll all be failures?""Yes. I don't mean only money failures, but just sort of - of ineffectual and...

I'll be living quietly in a house somewhere in the suburbs, enjoying a peaceful existence not writin...

I’ve witnessed, incognito, the gradual collapse of my life, the slow foundering of all I wanted to b...

My past is everything I failed to be.

When a Truthsayer's gifted by the drug, she can look many places in her memory - in her body's memor...

. . . failure is also the stern parent of truth. (p525)

A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Succ...

I'd rather be a failure in something that I love than a success in something that I hate.

Alas, how easily things go wrong!A sigh too much, a kiss too longAnd there follows a mist and a weep...

...every human being is doomed to die, which is the greatest of all failures.

I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.

I knew that I had a facility with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts, and I felt that this...

It is bound to be a failure, every book is a failure, but I do know with some clarity what kind of b...

Let his sword break and his shield shatter, Sansa thought coldly as she shoved out through the doors...

When you know you have unconditional love, there is no point in rebellion and no need to fear failur...

I feel to invite women everywhere to rise to the great potential within you. I do not ask that you r...

Success is fucking up on your own terms.

If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.

As it was, she always did whatever occurred to her, which was, admittedly, not difficult for someone...

I began to enjoy my own generosity; I felt the pleasure of pleasing others, especially as this was a...

There are three reasons I failed. Not enough training. Not enough training. And not enough training.