Quotes About Failure

Sometimes in greatness you fall short, only to rise again.

Why do Greeks always open restaurants that fail?

I'll never tell you I'm able to come to grips with 0-and-16.

I always look at a group of people who want to attempt an enterprise greater than their means. They begin on this enterprise and they fail.

In football, there are no guarantees.

Coach education in Germany is actually very good, but I do not understand why many coaches do not have the guts to push through an idea when they have lost two or three times.

Drama is not great when it's a roll off the curb into the gutter.

I've never been a hero at gymnastics.

You have to forgive me because I have a habit of not winning things.

I was in 'Hair,' which didn't work in London, but it was a show we all believed in.

International aid as a means of development is a major failure, and not just in Haiti.

I've bombed on stage millions and millions of times. And that's part of it. You go up with a half-baked idea, and you bomb, and so what? Nothing bad happens if you bomb.

You do feel bad when things don't work. But you cannot succeed without failing. It goes hand-in-hand.

No matter what I did, it was never enough.

I love you. I care about you, and I choose to forgive you. Even though my feelings of hurt may linger, I will not allow what has happened to come between us. I hope that we can learn from this experience. You are not a failure because you have failed. You are my spouse, and together we will go on from here." Those are the words of affirmation expressed in the dialect of kind words.

There are valuable life lessons that only failure can teach your child.

Here was the tiredness of failure imposed on a country that believed only in its opposite. Here was the end product of our deep moral exhaustion.

I started to see it Eunice's way. We now had obligations to each other. Our families had failed us, and now we had to form an equally strong and enduring connection to each other. Any gap between us was a failure. Success would come when neither of us knew where one ended and the other began.

It's okay to give up on a dream. The majority of dreams don't come true. Our whole country is learning as much.

To recognize that the greatest error is not to have tried and failed, but that in trying, we did not give it our best effort.

I found out that Willy Wonka had failed at the box office. It seems strange now to think that Roald Dahl's morality story wasn't embraced. I was told that many mothers thought the lessons in the movie were too cruel for children to understand. As the years since have proven, children don't have any trouble understanding the movie—they crave to know what the boundaries are. It was the mothers who had a little difficulty.

Then it would be over. Over and dead and done with, never to live again. He would recall his longing as something that had once occupied an augur whose name chanced to be his, Silk, a name not common but by no means outlandish. (The old caldé, whose bust his mother had kept at the back of her closet, had been—what? Had he been Silk, too? No, Tussah; but tussah was another costly fabric.) He would try to bring peace and to save his manteion, fail at both, and die.

But perhaps the real reason we keep writing is the hope naïve perhaps that we'll make a better job of it next time. Unless you're a genius or a fool you realize that everything you write however "successful " is always a sort of failure. And so you try again.

A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself. Indeed he progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself.