Quotes About Failure

How did I fail my son so much that he'd betray what we believe? What great sin have I committed that I have to bear this burden?

What did I do wrong with my children? Everett tries to comfort me, but I feel like a complete failure.

Zia didn't trust materials. Or rather, he trusted them to fail. Superconductors, carbon composite, silicon, the human body. Problem was, you never knew just how or when...

The multiple failures of top-down design, and the omnipresence of unintended consequences, can be attributed in large part, to the absence of relevant information.

If you make a mistake, you learn from it. If you never make a mistake, you're never the wiser. These

She never wanted anybody to fail to meet their potential. To her that was the greatest error of all.

The only failure is not knowing how to be happy.---My Story

Programming is full of odd ideas. Using shorter, less descriptive names often produces code that's more readable overall. The most powerful languages usually have far fewer concepts than the lesser ones. And failing and copying may be the best way to produce successful, original work. - Patrick Collison is a student at MIT.

Your career is stagnating by the minute. You are steadily letting your sedentary computer-programming desk-bound lifestyle turn your body into mush. All of these problems are much bigger and harder to just fix than a bug. They're all complex, hard to measure, and comprised of many different small solutions—some of which will fail to work!

Despite the failure of Velda Cannon's Depends, we'd had a great time.

suck failure, fur face!

So the cluviel dor was a test of Eric's sincerity, in Niall's eyes. And the cluviel dor was a test of my love for Eric, in Eric's eyes," I said. "And we both failed the test.

Death ray, fiddlesticks! Why, it doesn't even slow them up!

He possessed the logic of all good intentions and a knowledge of all the tricks of his trade, and yet he never succeeded at anything, because he believed too much in the impossible. Surprising? Why so? He was forever in the act of conceiving it!

It's not a field, I think, for people who need to have success every day: if you can't live with a nightly sort of disaster, you should get out. I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that the ghosts you chase you never catch.

Not many people leave a job where they have fallen short and land another one higher up the ladder. Nice work if you can get it.

When I was about 15... I made my first attempt as a leading lady, and was, of course, a complete failure.

We never tell our kids how to handle success, we never teach them what to do during times of failure. Someone should tell them to mellow down while they experience success so that they may have a long successful stint.

It's more interesting for me as an audience member to see a movie about a loser.

Membership First's record is one of conflict, division and, ultimately, failure.

The Prince interview was a failure. Huge, but most memorable 'cause he didn't say anything.

While I revel in the memories of my own Grammy moment, I also know how it feels to walk away empty-handed.

You're not going to be selling a lot of merchandise if you are losing all your matches.

At some point, an industry has to either succeed or fail on its own merits.