logo

Quotes About Failure

Dreams can come true there [Los Angeles]in ways impossible anywhere else, and they can get destroyed as well.
~ James Frey
Failure and disillusionment are realities, but ideologies are made of dreams. And dreams, it would seem, do not fade easily.
~ Unknown
Mistakes and failures are precisely your means of education. They tell you about your own inadequacies.
~ Robert Greene
Education is the only billion dollar industry that tolerates abject failure.
~ Geoffrey Canada
There is no better education than your own failures, if you've the eyes to see. We must have the courage to fail. It's evidence that we're risking to be our best.
~ Tim Hansel
I remember that I was never able to get along at school. I was at the foot of the class.
~ Thomas A. Edison
The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.
~ Norman Cousins
If you win, everyone asks what's your secret, when most of the time you did exactly the same in the ones you lost.
~ Edwin van der Sar
When things don't go well, you try to find any kind of excuse.
~ Jose Fonte
I don't believe a mistake-free learning environment exists.
~ Astro Teller
When expectations are really high, you're doomed.
~ Thomas Gibson
You can try your best and do everything right for the most part and still not get sacks, and sometimes you can get sacks that fall into your lap.
~ Julius Peppers
I was a pretty terrible lawyer. A really, really terrible lawyer.
~ Elizabeth Strout
Large incumbents become big and sometimes become lazy and set themselves up for failure in the future.
~ Taavet Hinrikus
When a leader doesn't do his or her job, it isn't just a problem with the person. They take their whole organization down.
~ John T. Chambers
Our leaders continue to say that we're making strong headway against this problem. And I think we are not.
~ Michael Scheuer
No one wants to see a failed Lambeau Leap.
~ Davante Adams
When I was a player and hit into a double play, I felt as if I was letting everyone down.
~ Joe Torre
Letting goals in doesn't look great to myself.
~ Joe Hart
Show me someone who has never made a mistake in their life, and I'll show you a liar. It happens.
~ Harry Redknapp
There's instances where you do everything right and you work hard and things don't work out. That's part of life, and it ends up being life lessons for some guys.
~ Brian Flores
When you are not successful, nobody listens to you.
~ Jim Sarbh
We all deal with failure. If you're lucky to have a long career, it's part of the experience.
~ David Henry Hwang
Any great, long career has at least one flameout in it.
~ Tina Brown