Quotes About Failure

If you or I fail at business, we fail. If we cheat and fail, we go to jail. But if you're rich and politically connected, your incompetence may be protected by a government bailout.

I realized that the way most people were going about protein engineering was doomed failure.

I've done performances in movies that I was immensely proud of and the movies didn't take off like a rocket at Cape Canaveral, it didn't take off.

If you get out back-to-back in T20s, it proves costly.

Human misery must somewhere have a stop:             there is no wind that always blows a storm;             great good fortune comes to failure in the end.

Had I succeeded, I'd be called wise: our wisdom depends on our success.

The temptation for Guy, which he resisted as best he could, was to brood on his own bereavement and deplore the countless occasions of his life when he had failed his father. That was not what he was here for. There would be ample time in the years to come for these selfish considerations.

You probably think you know...The failure and the success both believe in their hearts that they have accurately balanced points of view, the success because he's succeeded, and the failure because he's failed. The successful man tells his son to profit by his father's good fortune, and the failure tells his son to profit by his father's mistakes.

In any case you mustn't confuse a single failure with a final defeat.

How strange to have failed as a social creature—even criminals do not fail that way—they are the law's Loyal Opposition, so to speak. But the insane are always mere guests on earth, eternal strangers carrying around broken decalogues that they cannot read.

Wine gave a sort of gallantry to their own failure.

The failure and the success both believe in their hearts that they have accurately balanced points of view, the success because he's succeeded, and the failure because he's failed. The successful man tells his son to profit by his father's good fortune, and the failure tells his son to profit by his father's mistakes.

The very qualities I love you for are the ones that will always make you a failure.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

A bad driving and not even trying!

We'll all be failures? Yes. I don't mean only money failures, but just sort of - of ineffectual and sad, and - oh, how can I tell you?

I talk with the authority of failure.

Every man is born a success, he makes himself a failure.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgerald

It's just us. We're pitiful, that's all. The very qualities I love you for are the ones that will always make you a failure.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

She was too stupid to pull off something like that. "You're

Each drop of rain is my failed life weeping in nature.