Quotes About Failure

So when they win, it's their hard workAnd when they lose, it's their bad luck

It's good to remember that success may be just beyond the next failure, and you'll get there, not because you're destined to, but because you're determined to.

On athleticism, God knows no favor. It seems rather he is in the business of teaching winners how to lose and losers how to win.

Few teams sometimes fails miserably because team members wish to work in the team but they want to be recognized individualy.

Everything begins with failing. If you stop to fail, then your failing to stop, to try and try again, and bring success.

a hundred failures mean a thousand successes

Failure is the ultimate motivator, the supreme teacher, and the definitive guarantee of life. Failure is what makes success so addictive.

The No. 1 thing you should know about me: I've always tried to put God first in my life, and I'm the first to admit I often have failed because I'm too proud and too stubborn.

Everyone who feels stuck in the Obama economy is right to focus on the here and now. And I hope you understand this too, if you're feeling left out or passed by: You have not failed, your leaders have failed you.

New Year's resolutions generally don't work for me. Or I don't work for them. I make them, like everyone else, but I can't think of one I have stuck to for more than 24 hours.

I was a horrible student.

My investigation found Sallie Mae put student borrowers into expensive subprime loans that it knew were going to fail.

I studied math, and I was terrible at it.

My family had seen that I was not putting enough heart and soul into studies. I started failing too, but they were sure that I will eventually end up doing a job.

I mean, I've sold all these scripts and nothing's been made. Studios have closed, stars have died. I had a director find Jesus. And the pictures just don't get made.

Just because a company falls doesn't invalidate what we can learn by studying that company when it was at its historical best.

I was never an A student. I never really liked going to school like many of my friends. There were just too many students and too competitive. We were sort of forced into studying to go to college. It was like if we didn't go to college, society looked at us as failures. We didn't know what to do with the situation.

I believe the perfect life is the right combination between great things, great success and stupid mistakes or failures.

I failed first grade, which is my biggest problem. You always feel like a failure, like you're stupid.

I have done a lot of stupid things in my life.

But as an entrepreneur you have to feel like you can jump out of an aeroplane because you're confident that you'll catch a bird flying by. It's an act of stupidity, and most entrepreneurs go splat because the bird doesn't come by, but a few times it does.

Things fall apart and happen out of stupidity and carelessness.

Performing arts buildings are complex. The acoustics, the sight lines and all that have to just be perfect. So you begin with just making these things sublime as musical instruments. And if you fail there, you have failed it all.

Subsidies should never be a permanent feature of any market. They should be introduced only to address market failure and they should be withdrawn gradually as those distortions in the market are addressed.