Quotes About Failure

Dear me," Romulan said, "worst of all my execrable failings, to bring you, sir, to such a display.

Mevary's obvious attempt to catch him flabbily and disadvantageously in the nude had failed.

I never doubted my standing in the next life, but I often felt shame in this life, constantly disappointing God in my failure to love as He asked me to love. As such, I was caught in a kind of stupor of unworthiness.

The expectation of fulfillment in relationships will always fail you

Like all such absurd acts of aggression, nothing was accomplished.

So many Christians today see a system in which they cannot measure up and so they feel unworthy. The church seems to have failed them.

Even now, years later, it's hard to tell why the government stood by and let the city of New Orleans be destroyed, dispatching troops rather than help.

Success and failure are equally disastrous.

Real life is about accepting ups and downs, the good and the bad, the possibility of failure as well as the ambition to succeed. Atheism speaks to the truth about our human nature because it recognizes all this and does not seek to shield us from the truth by myth and superstition

All careers go up and down like friendships, like marriages, like anything else, and you can't bat a thousand all the time. So I think I've been very, very lucky.

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Tus fracasos y tus culpas. Se quedan contigo. Se aglomeran y afean, crecen cancerosos dentro de ti y te dan ganas de morir.

And what if I fail?" "Ah! Then you'll have a story to tell.

There aren't enough words in the English language to express how badly I stink at sports.

They'd won a lot of admirers that season but finished up with nothing. You can't put applause in a trophy cabinet.

Ce qui commence par : "Je me hâtais de déplaire exprès, par crainte de déplaire naturellement" (Mauriac) continue par : "Je me hâtais d'échouer exprès,par crainte d'échouer naturellement", et pourrait se terminer un jour par : "Je me hâtais de mourir exprès,par crainte de mourir naturellement" (une phrase d'excellent comique).

It's ridiculous! What kind of detectives can't find a missing elephant?

Al fin y al cabo, al éxito le encanta tener testigos, pero el fracaso no puede existir sin ellos

Success, after all, loves a witness, but failure can't exist without one.

Failures are trickling springs that feed into rivers of success, if only you keep creating.

From small mistakes come great catastrophes;

Directly after the show people might have responded better to it, but who really knows. It did what it did and while it seems like a failure to most but it was a success for me and has given me so many opportunities.

War is an admission of failure

Not even my not-finest hour. More like fifteen minutes.