Quotes About Failure

The first thing you have to learn when you go into the arts is to learn to cope with rejection. If you can't, you're dead

The leaders I met, whatever walk of life they were from, whatever institutions they were presiding over, always referred back to the same failure something that happened to them that was personally difficult, even traumatic, something that made them feel that desperate sense of hitting bottom--as something they thought was almost a necessity. It's as if at that moment the iron entered their soul that moment created the resilience that leaders need.

give yourself a strong incentive to want to risk failure.

As Winston Churchill once said, "The trick is to go from one failure65 to another, with no loss of enthusiasm." But how does one learn to perform that "trick" of "failing enthusiastically"?

The answer is, through questioning. Rather than run from a failure or try to forget it ever happened, hold it to the light and inquire, Why did the idea or effort fail? What if I could take what I've learned from this failure and try a revised approach? How might I do that?

As Winston Churchill once said, "The trick is to go from one failure65 to another, with no loss of enthusiasm.

you can't help but feel uncomfortable," because it becomes clear that fear of failure "keeps us from attempting great things . . . and life gets dull. Amazing things stop happening." But if you can get past that fear, Dugan said, "Impossible things suddenly become possible.

Success is often followed by failure. Yesterday's victory doesn't win today's battle.

One uncontrolled character flaw can ruin your greatest accomplishment.

Ever had one of those days you couldn't hit the ground with your hat?

The 1962 Mets went 40-120, losing more games than any ball club in the twentieth century and finishing 60½ games out of first place.

God is not cruel, but He is not lenient. He is true; He is not safe. He is unchanging; therefore we must change. We must learn in order to succeed. Our failures do not influence our grades, but our unwillingness to learn from them does. I

You miss 100 of the shots you never take.

You miss one hundred percent of the shots you don't take.

You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take

You miss 100% percent of the shots you don't take

There is no one that God does not love with all that he is. His love reaches beyond every sin and failure, hoping that at some moment they will come to know just how loved they are.

It is not the fear of losing God's favor that takes us to the depth of fellowship with him and transforms our lives with his holiness. It is our certainty of knowing his unrelenting love for us, even in the midst of our weakness and failure, that leads us to the fullness of his life.

God sees something redemptive even in letting us fail. He seems less concerned about our mistakes than how we respond to them. Do our mistakes lead us away from trusting in our own strength or wisdom and toward seeking what it means to put our trust in him?

It is wrong to condemn people for doing a thing and then offer no alternative but failure. A person could get mad about that.

It was very successful, but it fell on the wrong planet.

Don't stop on the road to success so you don't get run over by failure.

Failure is the haystack, success is the needle and I am the magnet."