Quotes About Failure

Many have been ruined by their fortunes, and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it the great have become little, and the little great.

cruel optimism.' This is when you take a really big problem with deep causes in our culture - like obesity, or depression, or addiction - and you offer people, in upbeat language, a simplistic individual solution. It sounds optimistic, because you are telling them that the problem can be solved, and soon - but it is, in fact, cruel, because the solution you are offering is so limited, and so blind to the deeper causes, that for most people, it will fail.

Is anarchism possible? The failure of attempts to attain freedom does not mean the cause is lost.

When ideas fail, words come in very handy.

There are people who make no mistakes because they never wish to do anything worth doing.

Unqualified activity, of whatever kind, leads at last to bankruptcy.

Life is an apprenticeship to the constant renunciations, to the steady failure of our claims, our hopes, our powers, our liberty.

For some reason, we see divorce as a signal of failure, despite the fact that each of us has a right, and an obligation, to rectify any other mistake we make in life.

I'm the most insecure guy in Hollywood. If you had it good all your life, you figure it can't ever get bad, but when you had it bad, you wonder how long a thing like this will last

I've produced more pilots than United Airlines, and they've all been disasters. Every audition I ever took in my life I lost.

Military cemeteries in every corner of the world are silent testimony to the failure of national leaders to sanctify human life.

Many a promising career has been wrecked by marrying the wrong sort of woman.

I think everyone has a certain kind of formula in their life. When you deviate from that formula, you're going to fail big or you're gonna win big.

I failed to communicate, that's why I chose to leave

The whole romantic part of my life was a wipeout. I didn't even own a belt.

Sport and life is about losing. It's about understanding how to lose.

There are two great tragedies in life: one is to fail to achieve one's grandest ambitions, and the other one is to succeed.

The saddest of all failures is that of a soul, with its capabilities and possibilities, failing of life everlasting, and entering upon that night of death upon which morning never dawns.

Fear of self is the greatest of all terrors, the deepest of all dread, the commonest of all mistakes. From it grows failure. Because of it, life is a mockery. Out of it comes despair.

Life is like topography, Hobbes. There are summits of happiness and success, flat stretches of boring routine and valleys of frustration and failure.

There is no Latter day Saint who dies after having lived a faithful life who will lose anything because of having failed to do certain things when opportunities were not furnished him or her.

If I'm not free to fail, I'm not free to take risks and everything in life that's worth doing involves a willingness to take a risk.

I have tried and failed to lead a conventional life. When I try to be like other people, I fall out of bed.

It is not in the least likely that any life has ever been lived which was not a failure in the secret judgment of the person who lived it.