Quotes About Failure

The more times I was turned down, the more I believed I was getting closer to making it. A lot of people in Korea say that failure is the mother of success, so I believed that more times I failed, the more likely I was to succeed.

I feel as if I've been so inured to failure, because I fail more than I succeed. As with any kind of fiction, I throw out so many pages; I get rejected so many times.

If your investing approach requires that you become Nostradamus to succeed, then you are destined to fail.

I said if I ever conducted, I would always give myself the best chance to succeed - though sometimes, despite everything, you still fail.

energy, all your hopes—into a dream, then meeting the hard knocks of failure over and over again, falling down and getting up…having to push yourself up to rise and try again for seven long years.

Every year for five years I spent every cent I had on I Know I've Been Changed, putting it on in different cities and in different theaters. Every single show—every one—failed. The financial failure and the heartbreak tore at my faith. Yet something kept the dream alive in my mind and in my heart and so I kept going, kept hoping, until finally, in 1998, I'd

The only way to live a perfect life is to not take risks, to just sit in a little box and never go after what you want or reach for your goals (because, God forbid, ya could try and ya could fail, and that sho' ain't perfect).

La brujería es la salsa que los idiotas vierten sobre el fracaso para ocultar el sabor de su incompetencia.

If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.

Experience is the worst teacher. It always gives the test first and the instruction afterward.

Failing to plan means planning to fail. What are your goals?

Businesses may come and go, but religion will last forever, for in no other endeavor does the consumer blame himself for product failure

A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

It takes 8,460 bolts to assemble an automobile, and one nut to scatter it all over the road.

A life spent making mistakes is not only most honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

Success always occurs in private and failure in full public view.

Success has many fathers, but failure is an orphan.

There is nothing worse in this world then wasted talent.

Victory has 100 fathers, defeat is an orphan!

We are all failures-at least the best of us are.

Yesterday's failures are today's seeds That must be diligently planted to be able to abundantly harvest Tomorrow's success.

There is the world of difference between failing at something and being a failure - but many people do not differentiate.

Human beings are compelled to live within a lie, but they can be compelled to do so only because they are in fact capable of living in this way. Therefore not only does the system alienate humanity, but at the same time alienated humanity supports this system as its own involuntary masterplan, as a degenerate image of its own degeneration, as a record of people's own failure as individuals.

To pursue a so-called Third Way is foolish. We had our experience with this in the 1960s when we looked for a socialism with a human face. It did not work, and we must be explicit that we are not aiming for a more efficient version of a system that has failed.