Quotes About Failure

Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.

If anything can go wrong, it will.

In any other sport, if you miss the catch all you lose is the ball.

Of all the people I have ever known, those who have pursued their dreams and failed have lived a much more fulfilling life than those who have put their dreams on a shelf for fear of failure.

"Murphy's Law": If something can go wrong, it will.

He that trusteth in his riches shall fall.

The more chance there is of stubbing your toe, the more chance you have of stepping into success.

Everyone crashes. Some get back on. Some don't. Some can't.

If at first you don't succeed, skydiving definitely isn't for you.

Everyone will experience failure for something. But the worse failure is not being able to conquer yourself.

General Failure's Fault. Not Yours.

Success always occurs in private, and failure in full view.

It was a masterpiece. Nobody bought it. (re: Rain, Steam and Speed - The Great Western Railway, 1844)

There are, he assures her, no such things as curses. There is luck, maybe, bad or good. A slight inclination of each day towards success or failure. But no curses.

He was failing at everything important. A room away his daughter was sitting with her face in her hands and he could not go to her.

The despair doesn't last. Marie-Laure is too young and her father is too patient. There are, he assures her, no such things as curses. There is luck, maybe, bad or good. A slight inclination of each day toward success or failure. But no curses.

Men in public life did their best to avoid accidental events or actions from being seen as unlucky. On a famous occasion during the civil war, Caesar tripped when disembarking from a ship on the shores of Africa and fell flat on his face. With his talent for improvisation, he spread out his arms and embraced the earth as a symbol of conquest. By quick thinking he turned a terrible omen of failure into one of victory.

Old Conservatism, at least in its more principled forms, is, as has been aptly said, the 'other God that failed' alongside Communism and radical socialism.4

I was with him throughout the whole process: writing the books, finishing them and then the horrible disappointment when nobody was interested. You have no idea what it's like, Susan, being rejected, those letters that turn up in the post with six or seven lines dismissing the work of a whole year.

As far as he could see, the communist system was defeating itself without his help. How else to explain the forlorn hopelessness of its capital?

Shi bai kepu seck yi!

The platform underneath the balloon fell on her as she was trying to escape," she explained. "She was crushed." "I'd have been disappointed too.

In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.

The only real failure in life is one not learned from.