Quotes About Failure

The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape.

Do not feel sorry for the bad luck of people, because behind everyone's misery is their own stupidity and laziness.

There is no loneliness like that of a failed marriage.

It is not marriage that fails; it is people that fail. All that marriage does is to show people up.

I feel that marriage can lead to the ultimate rejection and failure and divorce and things we all fear.

Coming to terms with the fact that my marriage was a failure was devastating and very difficult.

Nothing is as bad as a marriage that's a hopeless failure.

I've never really been very good at marriage. It's one of my failures. I've tried my best, but I do realise the common denominator is me; it's something I'm doing.

When unfailing love comes to fail, It will fail forever.

I never knew a man who was good at making excuses who was good at anything else.

The church that is man-managed instead of God-governed is doomed to failure. A ministry that is college-trained but not Spirit-filled works no miracles.

Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn; and you are too sensible a man not to learn from this failure.

The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.

A man can fail, but he isn't a failure until he blames someone else.

The greatest risk to man is not that he aims to high and misses, but that he aims to low and hits.

It is better to fail in originality, than to succeed in imitation. He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great. Failure is the true test of greatness.

Ken Lay has, does and will continue to accept responsibility for the fall of Enron. He was the man at the controls. But failure is not a crime.

It is better to fail with your own vision than to fail with another man's vision.

I have no more pleasure in hearing a man attempting wit and failing, than in seeing a man trying to leap over a ditch and tumbling into it

A good education is not so much one which prepares a man to succeed in the world, as one which enables him to sustain a failure.

There is nothing more common than unsuccessful men with talent.

Behind every successful man, there is a woman - And behind every unsuccessful man, there are two.

What we've got here is failure to communicate. Some men you just can't reach.

When the men in Russia foul up, they are dismisses, sometimes losing their necks. But we protect those who fail and press them to the government bosom.