Quotes About Failure

It's been the structure of my life: you scheme and plan and try and fail and try again and accumulate and lose and win back, and then you tell.

And I'm drawn to failure. I often write about it, and I'm sympathetic with it, I think, because I feel I'm contending with it constantly in my own life.

I'm not really equipped to do anything else but making movies. In every other aspect of my life I'm a total failure.

Audacity succeeds as often as it fails; in life it has an even chance.

Success comes and goes. Your flops stay with you for life.

The dark, uneasy world of family life - where the greatest can fail and the humblest succeed.

I have failed so much, but I have learned so much more in life from my failures than my successes.

In his life, Donald Trump's had a great track record of failure, bankruptcies, running from Vietnam, everything like that.

The British hamburger thus symbolised, with savage neatness, the country's failure to provide its ordinary people with food which did anything more for them than sustain life.

My life failed on the very day I was born.

One of the hardest things in life to accept is a called third strike.

Mistakes are life. Mistakes are not to be tolerated...they are to be encouraged. The bigger the better.

The true confessors have been aware that not only is life mostly failure, but that in one's failure or pettiness or wrongness exists the living drama of the self.

I was good at digging holes. It was the rest of life I sucked at.

We have once again succeeded in destroying what we could not create.

We will all fail in life, but nobody has to be a failure. Failing at a thing doesn't make you a failure. You are only a failure when you quit trying.

I'm living life as best I can - but I'm not exempt from failure and making bad choices.

Life is about having a good time, and it was a good time. We did some things well and some things poorly, but that was always the case.

Death and life, success and failure, pain and pleasure, wealth and poverty, all these happen to good and bad alike, and they are neither noble nor shameful - and hence neither good nor bad.

It's very weird to succeed at thirty-nine years old and realize that in the midst of your failure, you were slowly building the life that you wanted anyway.

The thing about failure is that you never know how close you were to success.

I fail all the time, but we are all just human and imperfect, but you know what's best for you, so follow your gut. That's probably my biggest life lesson, follow your gut.

It's true that the people that succeed in life are the people that keep getting up after they fall down, but no one gets through without falling down.

When Star Trek is hitting its stride and doing what it's supposed to do, it can be very provocative, but because it's reaching so high and trying to live up to its own expectations, it fails more than most shows.