Quotes About Failure

No one really starts anything new, Mrs. Nemur. Everyone builds on other men's failures. There is nothing really original in science. What each man contributes to the sum of knowledge is what counts.

Man's worst tragedy in life is his failure to reach his greatest potential

A man obsessed with failure has succeeded better than others in portraying it.

A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, but then fail all the more completely because he drinks.

We all make mistakes, probably the man most often.

Sometimes man needs great failures today to accomplish great successes tomorrow!

I believe that if you are talking about economic stress, the systems of the world are very fragile, and if we put our hope and trust in the systems that men have created, they will guarantee failure.

The average person would have quit at the first failure. That's why there have been many average men and only one Edison.

Most real failures are due to limitations which men set up in their own minds.

I was never a man of great ambition I cried too easily I didn't have a head for science Words often failed me While others prayed I only moved my lips

What a sad thing men are. Can't do nothing good without being so weak we have to mess it up. Can't build something up without tearing it down.

Edison failed ten thousand times before he perfected the modern electric lamp. The average man would have quit at the first failure. That's why there are so many average men and only one Edison.

It is curious how vanity helps the successful man and wrecks the failure.

Every instance of a man's suffering the penalty of the law is an instance of the failure of that penalty in effecting its purpose, which is to deter.

(Men without ambition are boring) And that attitude, mistress, is why the females of your kind continue to struggle for equality. And why they continue to fail.

Every failure teaches a man something, to wit, that he will probably fail again.

Love lost is a special kind of failure, I think. It's a reminder that some consummations, no matter how devoutly wished for, never come; that some apes will never be men, not in all the world's ages.

organizations like the church or General Motors promote a man up and up until he reaches a spot which he is obviously incapable of filling, and there they lay him to rest.

Men fall from great fortune because of the same shortcomings that led to their rise.

Rocks whereon greatest men have oftest wreck'd.

Men don't get knocked out, or I mean they can fight back against big things. What kills them is erosion; they get nudged into failure. They get slowly scared.[...]It's slow. It rots out your guts.

God help me if I ever do another movie with an explosion in it. If you see me in a movie where stuff is exploding you'll know I've lost all my money.

Win or lose, everybody gets what they want out of the market. Some people seem to like to lose, so they win by losing money.

Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without hell.