Quotes About Failure

There are a lot of good actors who work forever and never make one good thing.

We could do good things in Afghanistan for the next 100 years and fail.

Football is like that - sometimes you have good times, sometimes you have bad times.

failure is also the stern parent of truth. (p525)

Los seres que abrigan una idea tan elevada de sí mismos nunca imaginan que puedan llegar a caer algún día. Cuando se produce la caída, estos seres se vacían, azorados, desprevenidos; su sustancia se evapora en el estupor del fracaso. Sin medias tintas, ni matices, y sin previo aviso. Así son.

The only thing that went wrong was the human race itself.

When some men fail to accomplish what they desire to do they exclaim angrily, "May the whole world perish!" This repulsive emotion is the pinnacle of envy, whose implication is "If I cannot have something, no one can have anything, no one is to be anything!

One thing was clear: his attempt at sincerity and clarity had been a total failure. The world was accustomed to subterfuge and verbal pyrotechnics, and when it didn't get the expected commodity, it grew suspicious. Sincerity had no market value.

Modern prophets say that our economics have failed us. No! It is not our economics which have failed; it is man who has failed-man who has forgotten God. Hence no manner of economic or political readjustment can possibly save our civilization; we can be saved only by a renovation of the inner man, only by a purging of our hearts and souls; for only by seeking first the Kingdom of God and His Justice will all these other things be added unto us.

You have to learn to be a healthy competitor, winning or losing. Because there can be a lot more losses than there are wins.

The good wins are still great, and you are on cloud nine when that happens, but the losses sting.

You could have 20 wins in a row, and if you lose your next one, you suck now, according to how the fans are.

People say wins and losses don't' matter. Yeah, they kind of do in a way because Hulk Hogan wouldn't have been Hulk Hogan had he lost all his matches.

The epic failures make up the journey along the way to getting the wins.

So the reason that the Bay of Pigs failed was that the original promise made by Eisenhower was not kept by the subsequent Administration. It allowed hostile air to wipe out the approaching invasion force.

I'm not an artist, and I want to take risks, and when the possibility of failure occurs, it's because the idea is all exciting or interesting as a high wire act, and sometimes you've got to fall off, just by virtue of the fact that you're constantly trying to evolve and do new things.

I'm fully aware that things that resonate and become real hits are the exception to the rule, so much so that I've wired myself for failure.

Wisconsin's kids shouldn't be allowed to fail just because Washington is failing them.

If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements.

If you persist in your purpose of secession, there will be war - a bloody and cruel war. Not only will the North fight, but she will also triumph. The experiment of secession will fail, and the South, in ruin and desolation, will bitterly repent the day when she attempted to overthrow a wise and beneficent government.

Foreign aid is neither a failure nor a panacea. It is, instead, an important tool of American policy that can serve the interests of the United States and the world if wisely administered.

I think the main reason my marriages failed is that I always loved too well but never wisely.

After that he turned to the question of invading England. Hitler said that during the previous year he could not afford to risk a possible failure; apart from that, he had not wished to provoke the British, as he hoped to arrange peace talks.

Don't be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.