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Quotes About Failure

God does not accept me conditionally, on the basis of my performance, but bestows his love and forgiveness freely, despite my innumerable failures.
~ Philip Yancey
You learn just as much from your failures. Sometimes you love your failures even more.
~ Tina Weymouth
Failure isn't failure if a lesson from it's learned. I guess love would not be love without a risk of being burned.
~ Garth Brooks
There is no sorrow I have thought more about than that-to love what is great, and try to reach it, and yet to fail.
~ George Eliot
But for failing love on our part, therefore is all our travail.
~ Julian of Norwich
I did a pilot for Anything But Love in 1988 that didn't sell.
~ Kathryn Bigelow
I love failure. It's stuff that I'm thinking about all the time in my life, so it would make sense to me anyway to write about it.
~ Loudon Wainwright III
I did fail, say what you will, for Jo wouldn't love me.
~ Louisa May Alcott
typically, our love for our leaders is one-sided: their successes become our own, while their failures are theirs alone.
~ Marcia Whicker
He has been trying to sing Love into existence again And he has failed
~ Margaret Atwood
When we are unable to love and appreciate ourselves and our efforts, we run away from our mistakes and failures, rather than learning from them.
~ Meredith L. Young-Sowers
There was nothing more to say. Her happy plan had come to nothing.
~ Beverly Cleary
Goossens, the man who started it all, likewise failed to see his dream realized. In 1956, while passing through customs at Sydney Airport, he was found to be carrying a large and diversified collection of pornographic material, and he was invited to take his sordid continental habits elsewhere. Thus, by one of life's small ironies, he was unable to enjoy, as it were, his own finest erection.
~ Bill Bryson
He invested heavily in an automated general store in which customers would put a coin in a slot and a moment later a bag of coal, potatoes, onions, nails, hairpins, or other desired commodity would come sliding down a chute to them. The system never worked. It never came close to working.
~ Bill Bryson
The whole system was based upon getting kids to a certain standard and packing their minds with information so they could go on to a good university ... The great failure in education, much of the time, is a lack of excitement and stimulus.
~ Bill Bryson
Surrounding yourself with sycophants and bootlickers is the surest route to failure.
~ Bill Clinton
If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.B
~ Bill Clinton
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
~ Bill Cosby
Non so quale sia la chiave del successo, ma la chiave del fallimento è il cercare di piacere a tutti.
~ Bill Cosby
only to reminisce about his high school career, which included a failed stint at quarterback. Finally, Parcells said, "We're going to come
~ Bill Parcells
Life is like topography, Hobbes. There are summits of happiness and success, flat stretches of boring routine and valleys of frustration and failure.
~ Bill Watterson
Miss Wormwood: Calvin, your test was an absolute disgrace! It's obvious you haven't read any of the material. Our first president was not Chef Boy-Ar-Dee and you ought to be ashamed to have turned in such preposterous answers! Calvin: I just don't test well.
~ Bill Watterson
If you try to be anyone but yourself, you will fail; if you are not true to your own heart, you will fail. Then again, there's no success like failure
~ Bob Dylan
I failed to communicate, that's why I chose to leave
~ Bob Dylan