Quotes About Failure

any pursuit of happiness contrary to the common good is doomed to failure.

I tried ice-skating and wasn't very good at it.

I began as a weatherman and I learned very quickly I wasn't very good at it.

If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.

I've seen the bottom and I know the difference between good golf and bad golf.

My main piece of advice would be dont worry about being published - just write a really good book, but also dont be afraid to write a bad book. Give yourself permission to fail, and dont be afraid.

I never made a good movie.

It's interesting about people who choke. I'm, believe it or not, a good athlete. I've watched people choke over the years.

I can't imagine how many first performances I've done, perhaps 500. Some of them have been very good, and some of course very bad.

I'm not a matchmaker. I'm a horrible matchmaker. I always try. I'm not very good.

I understand how important the automakers are to America. And I understand a bankruptcy; a failure in that industry wouldn't be a good thing. It's something we should avoid.

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said this week there's a good chance we never get bin Laden. bin Laden! We couldn't even get O.J.!

Sometimes you do things that are fundamentally built to touch the world, and you feel good when you're successful doing it, and you're disappeared when the world fails to respond, which also happens.

I did my best. I guess my best wasn't good enough.

I had six good years and one bad one, and everyone was wondering whether I'd have a good one again.

I think I may have failed at a lot of things, but the one thing I can say, and that I'm proud of, is that I am a good parent.

Failure hurts pretty bad. But when you got good people around you they remind you that failure is actually just a lesson. It's how not to walk so you don't fall again.

Good people in the West have often failed to distinguish between Islam and Islamism.

There's not a conspiracy to prevent really good writing from being found You have to have the humility to fail over and over and over.

We are afraid of failure, of ridicule, of being rejected. We are afraid we're not good enough.

The answer to the question "where do good ideas come from" is always the same, the come from bad ideas. If you come up with 20 bad ideas you get one good one.

You have good games, you have bad games. You have good years, you have bad years. I have always been kind of philosophical about that.

I mean the only thing us dead soldiers got in common is that none of us was good enough or lucky enough to survive the fight. We're a host of failures.

He was, he would be the first to admit, a coward, an incompetent, and not even very good at being a failure.