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Quotes About Failure

There is a time in every life when paths are chosen, character is forged. I could have chosen a different path. But I didn't. I failed myself.
~ Libba Bray
Look, I know this seems a little half-assed...' 'No, dude. I'd be thrilled if this plan were half-assed. This is, like, no-assed.' 'You're right. It's the most no-assed thing I've ever done in my life.
~ Libba Bray
We have work to do if you are not to be a total failure like high-waisted, acid-wash jeans.
~ Libba Bray
What happened to the winner Adina asked. She tripped. And the first runner-up? Miss Michigan cracked her knuckles. She tripped, too.
~ Libba Bray
how do we learn to accept and forgive those who have both succeeded and failed in helping us become who we are?
~ Linda Gray Sexton
fail a stringent code of ethics and that none of us was capable of earning a place of honor.
~ Lisa Bevere
Irresponsible is only irresponsible if you fail. Succeed, however; and irresponsible quickly becomes merely unorthodox.
~ Lisa Gardner
being a math genius doesn't necessarily translate to financial gain. Lots of geniuses die poor.
~ Lisa Gardner
Every 36 seconds in America a woman lays her body down forced to choose abortion out of a lack of practical resources and emotional support. Abortion is a reflection that society has failed women.
~ Patricia Heaton
Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure.
~ Mark Skousen
As a society, we've become terrified of failure, but you can't grow without risking it.
~ Bear Grylls
If a severe pandemic materializes, all of society could pay a heavy price for decades of failing to create a rational system of health care that works for all of us.
~ Irwin Redlener
The dioxin story is the story of how science has failed to provide us with answers, how corporations control policymaking and decisions in our society, and how government is silenced.
~ Lois Gibbs
We have 200, 000 kids a year who drop out of the French school system and have no hope. They become a drag on society.
~ Xavier Niel
Those who succeed and do not push on to greater failure are the spiritual middle-classers.
~ Eugene O'Neill
No individual can ultimately fail. The Divinity which descends into humanity is bound to re-gain its original state.
~ Nilakanta Sri Ram
Every Warrior of the Light has failed in his spiritual duties.
~ Paulo Coelho
Death of a Salesman' is a brilliant taxonomy of the spiritual atrophy of mid-twentieth-century white America.
~ John Lahr
We cannot make up for failure in our devotional life by redoubling energy in service. We shall never take people beyond our own spiritual attainment.
~ William Griffith Thomas
If we fail to solve this moral and spiritual crisis we may be doomed like the great nations of the past.
~ Billy Graham
An atheist is a person who has nobody to blame when he screws up.
~ Fakeer Ishavardas
Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose.
~ Wilma Rudolph
Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
~ Babe Ruth
There is winning and there is misery.
~ Bill Parcells