Quotes About Failure

Sometimes it's easier to overcome a fall and a break than the fear of failure.

A whole lifetime could be spent making excuses, giving in, feeling guilty, resolving to do better, mentally beating myself up for not sticking to my resolve, feeling like a failure, and then resigning myself to the fact that things can't change.

If I'm trusting God, I will stare at all the possible ways He'll use this whether I fail or succeed.

every great success story has elements of failure.

Compromise built upon compromise equals failure. Instead, resisting temptation allowed promise upon promise to be built up in my heart, and that creates empowerment.

If aught be worse than failure from overstress of a life's prime purpose, it is to sit down content with a little success.

There is nothing more discouraging than speaking with an employee who received significant funding for advanced education and professional development, and then failed to fully use their new skills to benefit their organization. When this happens, employees typically leave to work at an organization that wants their skill and talent.

The first two movies I directed failed, when I was 21 and 23, and that was the greatest thing that could have happened.

We must be willing to fail and to appreciate the truth that often "Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived.

It is in the whole process of meeting and solving problems that life has meaning. Problems are the cutting edge that distinguishes between success and failure. Problems call forth our courage and our wisdom; indeed, they create our courage and our wisdom. It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually. It is through the pain of confronting and resolving problems that we learn.

Those accustomed to failure fear the novelty of success. Those taught the lessons of subordination are oft timid in the school of self-service.

Ketika kami tidak mengerjakan ujian dengan baik, guru akan mencerca kami, dan mengeluh bahwa ia mengajar kelas berisi siswa-siswa idiot yang tidak berguna. Guru, seharusnya Anda tidak meremehkan kami, karena kegagalan kami adalah awal keberhasilan

Those academics books that makes you feel like you ain't good enough, they were written by a human being like you. You not stupid for failing, you just not understanding someone else's point of view and it is normal not to understand someone's point of view

Ultimately, illegal immigration is a symptom of failures that extend well beyond Europe and that will not be solved either by welcoming newcomers or by keeping them out.

Lincoln, Susan B. Anthony, Gandhi, King, Havel, Mandela, and many other memorable leaders have found in righteous indignation the psychological edge they needed to endure years of doubt and trial. However, such an emotion is not something everyone can control, and it has, when unleashed, enough destructive energy to turn grand potential to failure.

Evidently it was very easy to fall if one had already fallen.

I failed him, yet he is a sweet wonder of this world.

Why the hell does everybody want to succeed? I'd like to meet somebody who wanted to fail. That's the only sublime thing.

But the road to hell, as we remember, is paved with good intentions. That they are a near total failure should seem obvious by now.

It is not always easy. Your successes are unheralded -- your failures are trumpeted. I sometimes have that feeling myself. [ Speech at CIA Headquarters , November 28, 1961]

And finally, at age seventy, having distinguished himself as a brilliant Secretary of State, an independent President and an eloquent member of Congress, he was to record somberly that his "whole life has been a succession of disappointments. I can scarcely recollect a single instance of success in anything that I ever undertook." Yet

If we fail, then freedom fails.

Victory has a hundred fathers, but defeat is an orphan

El éxito tiene muchos padres, pero el fracaso es huérfano.