Quotes About Failure

Be a Student of the Game. Like most clichés of sport, this is profound. You can be shaped, or you can be broken. There is not much in between. Try to learn. Be coachable. Try to learn from everybody, especially those who fail. This is hard.

If success is rare and slow, everybody knows how quick and easy ruin is.

Which, I wonder, brother reader, is the better lot, to die prosperous and famous, or poor and disappointed? To have, and to be forced to yield; or to sink out of life, having played and lost the game? That must be a strange feeling, when a day of our life comes and we say, 'Tomorrow, success or failure won't matter much: and the sun will rise, and all the myriads of mankind go to their work or their pleasure as usual, but I shall be out of the turmoil.

It is impossible not to notice that our world is tormented by failure, hate, guilt, and fear.

You write a hit play the same way you write a flop

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know…

Some rise by sin, and some by virtues fall.

Oft expectation fails, and most oft there where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest, and despair most fits.

Alack, when once our grace we have forgot, Nothing goes right; we would and we would not.

They that stand high have many blasts to shake 275 them, 276 And if they fall, they dash themselves to pieces.

Then with the losers let it sympathize, for nothing can seem foul to those that win.

depression in its major stages possesses no quickly available remedy: failure of alleviation is one of the most distressing factors of the disorder as it reveals itself to the victim, and one that helps situate it squarely in the category of grave diseases.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal

Everyone, Ross said, seems a little less concerned than I do. Am I more tender-hearted for others or only tender because of my own conscience? We are not–untender, she said. Not so. But maybe we are more–resigned. When a man is condemned to death we accept it, though it's sad to do so. We know we cannot change it. You hoped to change it–so it's more of a–a disappointment. You feel you have failed. We don't feel that because we never hoped to succeed.

On all counts I've let these people down. I came among them a stranger and a physician. I have met with nothing worse than suspicion and much that's been better than kindness. Eggs that could be ill spared pressed on me in return for some fancied favor. Little gestures of goodwill even from people who are Choake's people. Confidence and trust. In return I have helped to break up the life of one of their number. If I went now I should go for good, a cheat and a failure.

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy." [PERTH, 28 MAY 1948]

I have achieved a great deal to achieve nothing in the end.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders

SUCCESS IS NOT FINAL; FAILURE IS NOT FATAL; IT IS THE COURAGE TO CONTINUE THAT COUNTS.

The failure to strangle Bolshevism at its birth and to bring Russia, then prostrate, by one means or another, into the general democratic system lies heavy upon us today.

Success is Ability to go from One Failure to Another. Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.

It was not through wrong judgment that they failed, but through want of will-power. In such times the Kingdom of Heaven can only be taken by storm.

Those two impostors,' Triumph and Disaster, never played their pranks more shamelessly than in the Great War. When men have done their duty and done their best, have shirked no labour and flinched from no decision that it was their task to take, there is no disgrace in eventual personal failure. They are but good comrades who fall in the earlier stages of an assault, which others, profiting by their efforts and experiences, ultimately carry to victory.