Quotes About Failure

How beautiful it is to learn that Grace isn't fragile, and that in the family of God we can fail and not be a failure.

Bad news has never been broken gently in my family. Because, breaking it gently takes a few extra seconds. And who's got that kinda time? Hey, we maybe failures, but we are very busy.

It's a shame we can't just admit that we failed family living, sell the house, split up the money, and get on with our lives.

Is there any stab as deep as wondering where and how much you failed those you loved?

My story as an artist has been about trial and error. It's been about artist development, character building, struggle, happiness and failure, family, and music.

Getting a divorce is always horrible because you feel you've failed. Everyone hates to give up on a marriage. You think your family's broken up.

Growing up, I had the weird fantasy list: I wanted to be Alice Cooper, Steven Spielberg, and Stan Lee. You have to have almost psychotic drive, because you're going to have years of failure.

I'm sorry, my lady, " said Geric, rubbing his arm. "But I failed to force an apology out of the offending goose.

All stories are ultimately about the fall.

Oh yes. You've done a marvelous job of succeeding at failure.

Whenever I fail as a father or husband... a toy and a diamond always works.

A bad play folds and is forgotten, but in pictures we don't bury our dead. When you think it's out of your system, your daughter sees it on television and says, My father is an idiot.

I'm more comfortable with whatever's wrong with me than my father was whenever he felt he failed or didn't measure up to the standard he set.

My father always told me that I was going to be a failure - I think he was more talking about himself, but I didn't know it at the time.

What we should really fear is not failure but the heart that is no longer brave enough to take risks and embrace challenges

There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.

At first I wasn't sure that I had the talent, but I did know I had a fear of failure, and that fear compelled me to fight off anything that might abet it.

Accept false steps as opportunities to learn. It's one thing to hate failure, it's another to fear it.

Playing things too safe is the most popular way to fail.

In tennis, it is not the opponent you fear, it is the failure itself, knowing how near you were but just out of reach.

When there is fear of failure, there will be failure.

Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure. When you conquer negative attitudes of doubt and fear you conquer failure.

What is there to be afraid of? The worst thing that can happen is you fail. So what? I failed at a lot of things. My first record was horrible.

This country has nothing to fear from the crooked man who fails. We put him in jail. It is the crooked man who succeeds who is a threat to this country.