Quotes About Failure

I hate seeing people that look like you. Especially if God's living by the motto 'If at first you don't succeed.'

Obviously somebody had been appallingly incompetent and he hoped to God it wasn't him.

God created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed - that is the meaning of evolution.

God uses people who fail - Cause there aren't any other kind around.

The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgement passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.

Being human means you will make mistakes. And you will make mistakes, because failure is God's way of moving you in another direction.

It takes hundreds of good golf shots to gain confidence, but only one bad one to lose it.

Failure is not getting beat. Failure is when you don't do a good job preparing.

Christianity is not about good people getting better. It is good news for bad people coping with their failure to be good.

A true artist, in my mind, is willing to fail sometimes, because if you're not brave enough to say yes and follow your gut, it's never going to be good.

Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us that nothing we do will ever be good enough - that we should try again.

Some times your best effort just isn't good enough.

We failed, but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing.

At the end of the day, nobody can tell you how to tackle failure or how to handle change. The world is very good at encouraging you to go along with the status quo and at basking in your successes.

You can be good in a good movie, you can be good in a bad movie, you can be bad in a bad movie, but never, ever, be bad in a good movie.

The only road to doing good shows, is doing bad shows.

So far as good writing goes, the use of the exclamation mark is a sign of failure. It is the literary equivalent of a man holding up a card reading LAUGHTER to a studio audience.

Good habits are the key to all success. Bad habits are the unlocked door to failure.

So many financial dreams are thwarted by the failure to act upon good intentions.

I did the best I could, and in some arenas, my best was not good enough. I've made some bad choices.

Good intentions aren't enough. People have good intentions when they set a goal to do something, but then they miss a deadline or other milestone.

I wasn't ever good enough to be on the baseball team and that sort of stuff.

Walk along one day and do nothing wrong, play by the rules, be a good person, do everything right: it doesn't guarantee anything.

I know it wouldn't seem like I've had a lot of failure in my career, but there are things that I regard as failures, when I look at certain performances and go, 'That's not good enough.'