Quotes About Failure

How many times had those awful words - "I know what I'm doing" - been uttered throughout history as prelude to disaster?

If I win, I'm a prodigy. If I lose, then I'm crazy. That's the way history is written.

This is always history's greatest failure, its inability to believe what it sees, what, almost always, someone sees.

It's so damned humiliating.

The history of mankind is little else than a narrative of designs which have failed and hopes that have been disappointed.

If history offers no obvious solutions, however, it does at least provide the comfort of knowing that failure is nothing new.

I rise today to offer a formal and heartfelt apology to all the victims of lynching in our history, and for the failure of the United States Senate to take action when action was most needed.

I didn't know how to run a business. I was a terrible gallerist, the worst in history, possibly.

No one in history had ever done less and yet been so wrong.

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes follies and misfortunes of mankind.

George W. Bush is history's president, a man for whom the long-term success or failure of democracy in Iraq will determine his place in history.

The historic lesson is that it was a strategic failure to go into Iraq. History will not be and should not be kind with that decision.

What do I think about when I strike out? I think about hitting home runs.

My horse was in the lead, coming down the home stretch, but the caddie fell off.

The sun isn't your friend. It didn't laugh at that stupid little joke. But when the business failed, when your beauty failed, when you should have gone home but spent the night, the sun kept shining.

The Orlando Magic were so bad last season, the cheerleaders stayed home and phoned in their cheers.

Honesty is the fastest way to prevent a mistake from turning into a failure.

He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.

I have fallen, I have sunk so low. I have messed up, better I should know.

Honesty is about the scars. It's about the blemishes. But it's more than just bragging about failure, which could be a form of ego. It's about truly helping people.

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

A nation that fails to honor its heroes, soon will have no heroes to honor.

All honor to him who shall win the prize. The world has cried for a thousand years. But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears.

Nonsense and noise will oft prevail, When honor and affection fail.