Quotes About Failure

When it comes to our children, we do not have the luxury of despair. If we rise, they will rise with us every time, no matter how many times we've fallen before. I hope you will remember that the next time you fail...Remembering that is the most important work as parents we can possibly do.

That was my father: the man who hadn't fathered me. It amazed me every time. Again and again and again. Of all the wild things, his failure to love me the way he should have had always been the wildest thing of all.

Every step that I take is another mistake to you.

Is the proposed operation likely to succeed? What might the consequences of failure? Is it in the realm of practicability in terms of material and supplies?

That's part of this world: you learn probably more from the failures than you do from the successes.

You know what resolutions are? They're a setup for defeat.

Chetan Bhagat

In play, there are two pleasures for your choosing— The one is winning and the other losing.

Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.

Most editors are failed writers — but so are most writers.

A zombie film is not fun without a bunch of stupid people running around and observing how they fail to handle the situation.

When you lose, don't lose the lesson.

This is the paradox for me: in failure alone is there any possibility of success. I don't think I'm alone in this – nor do I think it's an attitude that only prevails among people whose work is obviously 'creative'.

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.

The saddest life is that of a political aspirant under democracy. His failure is ignominious and his success is disgraceful.

Representative Fiorello La Guardia responded, "I maintain this law will be almost impossible of enforcement. And if this law fails to be enforced-as it certainly will be, as it is drawn-it will create contempt and disregard for law all over the country.

People who feel quite satisfied, who find no criticism coming from the voice within, are generally failures. They may have been successful up to the present, but failure is written for their futures.

Don't be afraid to fail. Don't waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures and go on to the next challenge. It's OK to fail. If you're not failing, you're not growing.

Nothing held her, she was nothing holding to this thing: I am Hermione Gart, a failure.

To change a failure into a success requires a change in perspective

What we love will either take us to greatness or to ruin

Writing is not a great profession as a lot of writers proclaim. I write because this is something I can do. Another thing—very often I think a lot of writers write because they have failed to do other things. How many writers can't drive? A lot. They're not practical. They are not capable in everyday life.

I have promised the Tunisian people that the French army will go, If I fail, I will be swept away.

nothing is as effective as spectacular real-life cases – successful or otherwise – in persuading people.