Quotes About Failure

My beautiful proof lies all in ruins.

A zombie film is not fun without a bunch of stupid people running around and observing how they fail to handle the situation.

The higher they fly the harder they fall.

We have been better taught than the world. We cannot make the excuses of the world if we fail.

I rise today to offer a formal and heartfelt apology to all the victims of lynching in our history, and for the failure of the United States Senate to take action when action was most needed.

When I was young I observed that nine out of every ten things I did were failures, so I did ten times more work.

The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure.

I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.

I'd rather be a failure at something I enjoy than a success at something I hate.

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.

I'd rather be a failure in something that I love than a success in something that I hate.

Indecision and delays are the parents of failure.

If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?

Failure teaches you everything—you learn nothing from success.

You can't have any successes unless you can accept failure.

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.

I think our failure in the production of good town churches of distinctive character must have struck you often, as it has me, when contrasted with our comparative success in country churches.

So to be a disciple, while it involves drastic renunciation, is to enter a realm of privilege (10:29-31), and the dullness and failure of the first disciples is offset by the special revelation that will enable them ultimately to fulfill their high responsibility. Two contrasting aspects of discipleship thus reflect the two poles of Mark's paradoxical Christology.

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

There are many victories worse than a defeat.

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Many people fail not so much because of their mistakes; they fail because they are afraid to try.

Expansion in the mission of the federal government has created a belief in its effective power. Its ineffectiveness is therefore seen not as a systemic failure but as the result of a deliberate failure designed to benefit the powerful and harm the many.