Quotes About Failure

The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game ! and lost.

Most people are afraid of failing. I think there's nothing wrong in failing.

Studies by Medical Corps psychiatrists of combat fatigue cases ... found that fear of killing, rather than fear of being killed, was the most common cause of battle failure, and that fear of failure ran a strong second.

Show me a good and gracious loser, and I'll show you a failure.

Nothing is so common as unsuccessful men with talent. They lack only determination.

Critics are the men who have failed in literature and art.

As a bankrupt thief turns thief-taker in despair, so an unsuccessful author turns critic.

Self distrust is the cause of most of our failures. In the assurance of strength, there is strength, and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers.

To be ambitious for wealth, and yet always expecting to be poor; to be always doubting your ability to get what you long for, is like trying to reach east by traveling west. There is no philosophy which will help a man to succeed when he is always doubting his ability to do so, and thus attracting failure. No matter how hard you work for success, if your thought is saturated with the fear of failure, it will kill your efforts, neutralize your endeavors and make success impossible.

A faint endeavor ends in a sure defeat.

When we begin to take our failures non-seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

A sense of humor judges one's actions and the actions of others from a wider reference ... it pardons shortcomings; it consoles failure. It recommends moderation.

Every man's got to figure to get beat sometime.

The best brewer sometimes makes bad beer.

We must somehow get comfortable with the reality of periodic failure. ... Like a trip to the dentist, the thought of occasional reverses may not make us tingle with joyful anticipation, but then again, it's not the end of the world.

Show me a person who has never made a mistake and Ell show you somebody who has never achieved much.

We all choke, and the man who says he doesn't choke is lying like hell. We all leak oil.

He who has never failed somewhere, that man cannot be great.

A good marksman may miss.

Virtually nothing comes out right the first time. Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. The only time you don't want to fail is the last time you try something.... One fails forward toward success.

Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.

If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk.

When we can begin to take our failures non-seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you can be satisfied that you've tried.