Quotes About Failure

You can't hit a home run every time.

Theories are great, they sound great, but the minute you are asked to prove one in actual life, why the thing blows up.

The more chance there is of stubbing your toe, the more chance you have of stepping into success.

Of course to adhere to standards, to idealism, to vision in the face of immediate dangers takes great courage and takes self-confidence. But we also know that only those who dare to fail greatly, can ever achieve greatly.

You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.

He turned being a Big Loser into a perfect triumph by managing to lose the presidency in a way bigger and more original than anyone else had ever lost it before.

The moral of my book is that anyone who doesn't succeed in bringing his personal relations and those of his family into a secure state is also incapable of assuming an effective position in civil life.

God created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed -- that is the meaning of evolution.

Failure too is a form of death.

Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.

If the mystery can be reduced to one solution, it lies in a simple coincidence: Rimbaud's interest in his own work had survived the realization that the world would not be changed by verbal innovation. It did not survive the failure of all his adult relationships. He had always treated poems as a form of private communication. He gave his songs to chansonniers, his satires to satirists. Without a constant companion, he was writing in a void.

Failure isn't bad if it doesn't attack the heart. Success is all right if it doesn't go to the head.

Why do we capital-N Nerds love Mars so much? Because it's beautiful, it's tough, it's buried in our mythic, childhood memories. It's covered with human triumphs but also with sad stories of failure.

I will learn by screwing up.

You have a practiced apathy, Mr. Wayne. But a man who doesn't care about the world doesn't spend half his fortune on a plan to save it—and isn't so wounded when it fails that he goes into hiding.

You can fail as Bruce Wayne," he said. "As Batman, you can't afford to." "Is that what you're afraid of?" Bruce asked indignantly. "That if I go back out there, I'll fail?" "No," Alfred said. "I'm afraid you want to.

Rejected pieces aren't failure; unwritten pieces are.

I think the failure of The American church to affirm the goodness of civilizational life is our greatest failing today.

IT WOULD BE tempting to read the story of Fordlandia and Belterra as a parable of arrogance

In relation to therapeutic issues where we are manufacturing our own pain, the pain must be understood as a failure of creativity. The response to a certain situation has rigidified. We have lost our ability to create new responses for new situations. We do not understand how we have participated in creating our pain. We are no longer able to recognize new situations when they occur.

The biggest mistake is being too afraid of making one.

Success and failure, ultimately, have little to do with living the gospel. Jesus just stood with the outcasts until they were welcomed or until he was crucified — whichever came first.

I hate the calendar, which is both a circle and a straight line, a wheel and an arrow, grinding each anniversary, each day a reminder of my failures, my lost plans, unfulfilled objectives and wishes, the days aren't taken off the calendar, subtracted one by one, but added, another small stone accumulated, another foot moved ahead, the arrow flying forward instead of falling back to earth, when all I want is a complete stop.

No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.