Quotes About Failure

Everything in life has let me down.

Life is a glorious opportunity, if it is used to condition us for eternity. If we fail in this, though we succeed in everything else, our life will have been a failure.

Succeeding is not really a life experience that does that much good. Failing is a much more sobering and enlightening experience.

Successful people make their decisions quickly and change their minds slowly. Failures make their decisions slowly and change their minds quickly.

There is no possibility of failure because you only control your actions and they only influence the probable evolution of your life over stochastic future paths. There is no failure, only feedback.

It's always easy to blame others. You can spend your entire life blaming the world, but your successes or failures are entirely your own responsibility.

If you allow failure to take on more of a role in your life than possible, then you'll always look at it on the defense and you'll always shoot yourself down before it even goes anywhere.

There's no way that you can live an adequate life without making many mistakes.

There are no successes and failures in life, only achievements - stepping stones.

Many times you will fail. That is the nature of the world, and the truth of life. But when you find your horse again, will go back or will you go forward?

The saddest thing in life is wasted talent

If you have never failed you have never lived.

It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.

It doesn't matter if you come from the inner city. People who fail in life are people who find lots of excuses. It's never too late for a person to recognize that they have potential in themselves.

Would anyone choose Hell over Heaven? YES! Why? Pride. They don't want to go in the only way you can go in, on your knees. They don't want to admit they are a failure, that their life is a mess.

With comics, you always talk about a big break, but there are a lot of big breaks in your life and not one of them makes a big difference.

Life's full of tricky snakes and ladders.

There is a deep, abiding, unshakable satisfaction in a life of complete failure.

Even in the best of lives, mistakes are made.

I hated myself and the world because I had failed to face and accept the limitations of my self and of life. In literature this refusal is called romanticism; in psychology, neurosis.

I worry sometimes that humans are afraid of helping humans. There's less risk associated with animals, less fear of failure, fear of getting to involved.

My whole life has been merely a succession of miserable and unsuccessful denials of feelings or reason.

My life has been nothing but a failure.

If you fail to gain absolute self-control, you have failed in the greatest victory of life.