logo

Quotes About Failure

We are teaching kids to fail. We need to teach our kids to succeed.
~ John Catsimatidis
Oh, I don't think religion has failed. It's man who has failed. Christ hasn't failed. The Gospel hasn't failed. The teachings of God have not failed.
~ Gordon B. Hinckley
I have been relegated as a player, and I have suffered the feeling of failure. It is awful, and when you are part of an international outfit that gets so close, and you don't do it, it is not a good feeling. I don't want that again. I want to be part of a team that does something no one else has done.
~ Chris Coleman
Every great team has had to fail at some point in order to be successful.
~ Sue Bird
Being a leader requires being confident enough in your own decisions and those of your team to own them when they fail. The very best leaders take the blame but share the credit.
~ Travis Bradberry
MARKET GARDEN proved "an epic cock-up," as a British major averred, a poor plan with deficient intelligence, haphazard execution, and indifferent generalship
~ Rick Atkinson
After killing hundreds of American and British soldiers during TORCH, the French had failed to so much as scratch a single German invader.
~ Rick Atkinson
His errors and failures have not traveled the same distance as his successes.
~ Rick Bass
For maybe the first time in my life, I had tried to do the safe thing, and it had blown up in my face. Never, ever again.
~ Rick Bragg
We know there is no such thing as freedom without the risk of failure.
~ Rick Perry
With humility, you are better able to enjoy and understand success, and you are better able to examine and handle failure.
~ Rick Pitino
How does it feel to be helpless, Led? To depend on something that fails you? There's no more running from who you are; no one to hold you together anymore. You're alone now-- The ghost of Tokyo has come for you all.
~ Rick Remender
everything Trump touches DIES!!
~ Rick Wilson
Once you can accept failure, you can have fun and success.
~ Rickey Henderson
The fear of failure has killed many of hopes and dreams.
~ RJ Intindola
So...the lesson here is, never succeed at anything, because it will only raise people's expectations of you
~ Rob Reger
But that's who your wife is, the person you fail in front of. Love is so confusing; there's no peace of mind.
~ Rob Sheffield
The news was somewhere between an incredible accomplishment and a huge disaster.
~ Robbie Robertson
Nature gave men two ends -- one to sit on, and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
~ Robert Albert Bloch
Only later in life did I learn that failure can be the best teacher
~ Robert B. Oxnam
Yet neither the regressives' stop-at-nothing tactics nor their social Darwinist message would have gained much traction were it not for the stunning failure of Democrats to make the case for a strong and effective government that responds to the needs of average people.
~ Robert B. Reich
S&P's intrusion into American politics is also ironic because much of our current debt is directly or indirectly due to S&P's failure (along with the failures of the two other major credit-rating agencies, Fitch and Moody's) to do its job before the financial meltdown.
~ Robert B. Reich
The Church calls people to be not spiritual mediocrities, but great saints, and this is why its moral ideals are so stringent. Yet the Church also mediates the infinite mercy of God to those who fail to live up to that ideal (which means practically everyone). This is why its forgiveness is so generous and so absolute. To grasp both of these extremes is to understand the Catholic approach to morality.
~ Robert Barron
Modernity, the child of the Enlightenment, failed when it became apparent that the good society cannot be achieved by unaided reason.
~ Robert Bork