Quotes About Failure

Never give up; nothing is done overnight. Anyone who achieved anything in life always did it after many failures. Don't give up hope.

I assume everything I do in life is gonna be a failure, and then if it turns up roses, then I'm psyched.

Life is a series of failures punctuated by brief successes.

What matters is this: Being fearless of failure arms you to break the rules. In doing so, you may change the culture and just possibly, for a moment, change life itself.

I never did one thing right in my life, you know that? Not one. That takes skill.

To achieve your dreams, you must embrace adversity and make failure a regular part of your life. If you're not failing, you're probably not really moving forward.

Fighting is like life. You can do everything to a tee. You can show up and fail. That's no reason to quit.

If you have a level of expectation in your life that you have to be a quote-unquote star, whatever that means, you might be setting yourself up for failure.

The best people in the world aren't those who never fail - but those who fail and learn something from it. I hope that your goal in life isn't to slide safely into death not having screwed up much.

If your life doesn't end in failure, you haven't reached high enough. So it was failure I had to achieve.

Uncertainty and the prospect of failure can be very scary noises in the shadows. Most people will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.

The only time you lose at something is when you don't learn from that experience.

School is a drill for the battle of life. If you fail in the drill you will fail in the battle.

Life is a game, where either you lose or you learn.

You cannot learn to skate without making yourself ridiculous - the ice of life is slippery.

Do not say before hand what you are going to do; for if you fail, you will be laughed at.

More men fail though lack of purpose than lack of talent.

Think about it. Every time you fail at a task you've actually learned something new. The question is "what?"

I don't think there's anything to be afraid of. Failure brings great rewards - in the life of an artist.

The greatest leverage you can create for yourself is the pain that comes from inside, not outside. Knowing that you have failed to live up to your own standards for your life is the ultimate pain.

Life is all about learning and one of the most memorable ways of learning something is by messing up.

The invention of the ship is also the invention of the shipwreck...

So nevertheless, what I'm saying is that what one is - one's parameters are constantly narrowed by one's success, and my desire is to widen my field even if I risk failure.

I constantly experience failure in that my work is never as good as I want it to be. So I live with failure.