Quotes About Failure

Over a 10-year period, 99 out of 100 new entrepreneurs will fail. Only one will be left standing as others get pushed out of the market or burn out from working so hard. It's really sad.

For decades, conventional wisdom in the United States held that it was only a matter of time before China would become more liberal, first economically and then politically. We could not have been more wrong - a miscalculation that stands as the greatest failure of U.S. foreign policy since the 1930s.

You know what 'FAILING' stands for? It stands for 'Finding An Important Lesson, Inviting Needed Growth.'

I bombed so much as a standup that messing up doesn't matter to me anymore. I kind of enjoy bombing sometimes - I try and make everybody hate me more. Like, once I know it's not going well, I can just have fun.

Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent.

Every man is entitled to make a darn fool of himself at least once in a lifetime.

Wall Street's graveyards are filled with men who were right too soon.

Initiative is the essence of manhood. Noting comes to the man who is passive, except failure.

All men are mortal, and therefore all men are losers; our profoundest loyalty goes out to the failed.

We earth men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things.

Show me a satisfied man, and I'll show you a failure.

You know who the critics are? The men who have failed in literature and art.

Ten men have failed from defect in morals, where one has failed from defect in intellect.

It is not by great acts but by small failures that freedom dies. . . . Justice and liberty die quietly, because men first learn to ignore injustice and then no longer recognize it.

It was as helpful as throwing a drowning man both ends of the rope.

Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does.

The man who forms the habit of beginning without finishing has simply formed the habit of failure.

When man meets an obstacle he can't destroy, he destroys himself.

The vain man makes a merit of misfortune, and triumphs in his disgrace.

Financial sense is knowing that certain men will promise to do certain things, and fail.

The man who has never made a mistake will never make anything else.

You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men.

The whole Bible is the story of men and women trying to get back to God, to overcome that sin with sacrifices, good works, sermons, prophesy, witnessing, giving all kinds of things. It never worked

Examples are few of men ruined by giving.