Quotes About Failure

Failing my driving test first time; that was a disappointment on a geological scale.

Words fail, there are times when even they fail.

A man who is right every time is not likely to do very much.

Every time something slips through the cracks, the cracks get bigger.

The bar exam's a mother. I mean, for me it was. I failed it the first two times, but I guess it's like losing your virginity, third time's the charm.

Obviously the first sentiment is disappointment that we didn't get the car home and more disappointment that at the time that it stopped the car was in the lead.

Schools stifle family originality by appropriating the critical time needed for any sound idea of family to develop - then they blame the family for its failure to be a family.

Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.

Every time I fumble or drop a ball I am embarrassed.

A "take" is an opportunity to fail ... and we think that we have to get it right all the time.

My mantra is: Realize you're going to fail all the time, and accept it. That doesn't mean I'm not frightened of it.

Foreign policy is like hitting a baseball: if you fail 70 percent of the time, you go to the Hall of Fame.

I've told you for the fifty-thousandth time, stop exaggerating. Losers are people who are afraid of losing.

George Tenet has been the director of central intelligence since 1997, time enough to have changed the Agency's culture. He has failed. He should go.

One thing I've learned over time is, if you hit a golf ball into water, it won't float.

I think that I failed by not studying more, and praying more, and spending more time with my family.

It was the failures who had always won, but by the time they won they had come to be called successes.

The idea that more taxes and more government spending is the best way to help hardworking middle class taxpayers - that's an old idea that's failed every time it's been tried.

We all fail. But none of us fail all the time.

In fact, my New Year's resolution every year, and I'm Jewish so I get two New Years a year, is to meditate, and I fail every time.

Because he stinks on the power play. He stinks. I don't know why. I wish I could put him on the power play, but every time I put him on, he stinks.

All men fall. It's but time and method that differ.

Any time you're throwin dirt you're losin ground.

Babe Ruth was the home-run king of his time, but also the strikeout king.