Quotes About Failure

If you lost a major actor because of a broken jaw, the project collapses.

Almost no one wants to admit the genius of Jeff Bezos and Amazon. Apparently, many have failed to see that Amazon has become the world's biggest retail company.

I tried out for 'Jeopardy' once, when they came to Cleveland, but I didn't make it.

My second marriage to Jessica just fell apart. It was nothing to do with restaurants.

A joke bombing on stage doesn't bother me, especially if it's intended to bomb.

I told jokes badly.

Personally - and I don't mean to brag - my jokes have been falling flat for most of my life.

Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.

In the operative part there are two defects and two corresponding prerogatives of instances. For operation either fails us or it overtasks us. The chief cause of failure in operation (especially after natures have been diligently investigated) is the ill determination and measurement of the forces and actions of bodies.

The degree to which people in developed countries take political institutions for granted was very much evident in the way that the United States planned, or failed to plan, for the aftermath of its 2003 invasion of Iraq.

BORN UNDER A THREEPENNY HALFPENNY PLANET, NEVER TO BE WORTH A GROAT. Said of any person remarkably unsuccessful in his attempts or profession. BOTCH.

The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.

All the painters who appear in our museums are failures at painting; the only people ever talked about are failures; the world is divided into two categories of people: failures and those unknown.

The pure, clean water of spiritual truth is placed in rusty containers, and the subsequent failings of the church down through the centuries should not be projected onto the faith itself, as if the water had been the problem.

What is the tactful, the effective way of announcing that your life's work has been wasted?

Si existe Dios asumirá el fracaso.

Lo malo de un fracaso es que tapona la vida, cierra otros posibles caminos hacia el éxito.

What a terrible time this is to be a Christian. The churches have failed and betrayed us, and the ministry preaches hate and murder. If there is a sane and reasoning voice in the Christian church today it is sadly silent.

For most of the universe's inhabitants, life is not all gummy wads and tarty tarts; is a struggle against hardship, unfairness, corruption, abuse, and adversity in all its guises, where even to survive - let alone survive with dignity - is heroic. To soldier through the days in the wake of failure is the courageous act of many.

My fear is that these kids are always going to be evaluating their self-worth in terms of whether they hit the next rung society has placed in front of them at exactly the time that society has placed it. And that's dangerous, because you're going to slip and fall in your life.

In the end, everything is found to be wanting.

What we've got here is failure to communicate.

I also knew that I was on my way to becoming the worst athlete in the history of American boyhood.

When you have done your best for a flower, and it fails, you have some reason to be aggrieved.