Quotes About Failure

Success and failure. We think of them as opposites, but they're really not. They're companions - the hero and the sidekick.

You need to screw up to learn. You need to experience to create greatness.

You need to screw up to learn. You need to experience to create greatness. It's not just about bowls, you know.

I am a gluttonous, gorging failure. A waste. My body isn't used to high-sugar carbs laced with witchcraft. It can barely cope with soup and crackers.

It's a shame we can't just admit that we failed family living, sell the house, split up the money, and get on with our lives.

I can't believe we have to keep playacting until I graduate. It's a shame we can't just admit that we have failed family living, sell the house, split up the money, and get on with our lives.

I bet they'd be divorced by now if I hadn't been born. I'm sure I was a huge disappointment. I'm not pretty or smart or athletic. I'm just like them—an ordinary drone dressed in secrets and lies. I can't believe we have to keep playacting until I graduate. It's a shame we can't just admit that we have failed family living, sell the house, split up the money, and get on with our lives.

We were like mourners at an invisible cenotaph during the two minutes' silence which commemorates an irremediable failure of the human will.

If you look at suicides, most of them are connected to depression. And the mental health system just fails them. It's so sad. We know what to do. We just don't do it.

Christmas it seems to me is a necessary festival; we require a season when we can regret all the flaws in our human relationships: it is the feast of failure, sad but consoling.

To find beauty in the sad, hope in the midst of loss, and dignity in failure is great poetic art.

We are like Humpty Dumpty and all these king's horses and all these king's men cannot put us back together again

Today,' said Lymond, 'if you must know, I don't like living at all. But that's just immaturity boggling at the sad face of failure. Tomorrow I'll be bright as a bedbug again.

All talk, talk, talk - no action or results. Sad.

Every father wants a daughter to meet the right God, and the right man. Perhaps her father had failed with both.

The rocket worked perfectly, except for landing on the wrong planet.

Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing.

I have failed in finding parasites in mosquitoes fed on malaria patients, but perhaps I am not using the proper kind of mosquito.

If there is a wrong way to do something, then someone will do it.

Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.

Ahimsa is a science. The word 'failure' has no place in the vocabulary of science.

Now, being a science fiction writer, when I see a natural principle, I wonder if it could fail.

[Should Britain fail, then the entire world would] sink into the abyss of a new dark age made more sinister ... by the lights of perverted science.

Scientific method is the way to truth, but it affords, even in principle, no unique definition of truth. Any so-called pragmatic definition of truth is doomed to failure equally.