Quotes About Failure

I know acts and I'm not going to name names but these people sold ten million copies the first time and the second album sells three million and it's considered a failure and they're dropped and that's really a shame.

A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.

You'll Never Win ... until you Lose

one who makes no mistakes makes nothing

One who makes no mistakes makes nothing at all.

Dove ci sono buone notizie non c'è letteratura - chi lo ha detto? La letteratura esiste solo per indagare le meccaniche dell'infelicità; se no è spazzatura, è robaccia commerciale, a prescindere. In ogni caso per evitare equivoci, tu sei sempre stato d'accordo con questa idea di letteratura. Il che è normale, se sei un intellettuale fallito.

he was way too low

For making mistakes is not an exercise of competence, nor is the commission of slips an exercise of knowledge how; it is a failure to exercise knowledge how.

If it wriggles, it's biology. If it smells, it's chemistry. And if it doesn't work, it's physics.

This is the counsel of despair which would keep the mind out of hell. The tradition is far kinder in its understanding that to live, to love, is to be failed; to forgive, to have failed, to be forgiven, for ever and ever. Keep your mind in hell, and despair not.

Ma il coraggio era anche quello. Era la consapevolezza che l'insuccesso fosse comunque il frutto di un tentativo. Che talvolta è meglio perdersi sulla strada di un viaggio impossibile che non partire mai.

El triunfo de los dictadores es consecuencia de tres fracasos: de la filosofía, de la religión, del capitalismo democrático.

But in its final creation it was not the part of the Father's power to fail as though exhausted. It was not the part of His wisdom to waver in a needful matter through poverty of counsel.

los imprevistos son siempre el resultado de la incompetencia

We're giving our freedoms away. The American experiment was about freedom. Freedom to be stupid, freedom to fail, freedom to succeed.

Without failure there is no sweetness in success. There's no understanding of it.

The result of preventing failure in a country rooted in freedom is a country that is no longer rooted in logic.

A president who is burdened with a failed and unpopular war, and who has lost the trust of the country, simply can no longer govern. He is destined to become as much a failure as his war.

in the face of severe injustice, a refusal to dissent is the sign of a character flaw or moral failure.

disregarding maintenance schedules and failing to adhere to regulators and manufacturers regulations are other surreptitious ways of saving money. 

If you're 40 years old and you've never had a failure, you've been deprived.

A strong urge to succeed coupled with strong opposition to what it takes to succeed is the surest way to failure.

We seek success to avoid failure but avoiding failure reduces the chances of success. So, seek success to avoid failure, don't avoid failure to seek success. Because if you avoid failure you will fail to avoid failure.

Let us plunge ourselves into the roar of time, the whirl of accident ; may pain and pleasure, success and failure, shift as they will - it is only action that can make a man.