Quotes About Failure

To fail is not tragic. To be human, is.

I was heartbroken, but used to it; the patterns of struggle and failure in life tend to repeat themselves.

Failure is God's way of saying, "Excuse me, you're moving in the wrong direction."

What is difficult to acknowledge is that I saw this mistake coming and second-guessed myself, went against my own intuitive judgment. It wasn't that I had not seen the truth. I had. But I failed to find the courage to act on it. Of course, my intuition can be wrong. But making a wrong decision, acting on an intuition that is inaccurate, is a real mistake, one I can live with more easily than the mistake of failing to act on what, to the best of my ability, I know.

War is something Arafat sends others to do for him. That is, the poor souls who believe in him. This pompous incompetent caused the failure of the Camp David negotiations, Clinton's mediation.

quel fallito Club Finanziario che chiamano Unione Europea e che non si capisce a cosa serva fuorché a legittimare l'antiamericanismo quindi a spaccare in due l'Occidente, a imporci una stupidaggine detta Moneta Unica, a pagare eccessivi ed immeritati stipendi (esenti da tasse) ai membri del suo inetto e inutile Parlamento.

Achievement is not always success while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.

There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.

Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.

Leaders who won't own failures become failures.

There are many shortcuts to failure, but there are no shortcuts to true success.

The difference between success & failure isn't ability as much as action.

The only people capable of handling success are those who have learned to handle failures w/o taking their eyes off the prize.

Most people fail in leadership b/c they think when they should be working and work when they should be thinking.

Most people fail in life because they were not prepared for the opportunities when they appeared.

Truth is only sweet to the ears only after a person is sick of drinking the vinegar of repeated failures.

Winners aren't those who lose the least, but rather those who learn the most from their losses on their way to victory.

People fail 2 ways: 1) don't know what to do 2) don't do what they know; therefore, great leaders must educate and inspire.

The two major ways people fail financially: 1) Spend when they should save. 2) Save when they should invest.

Fame and fortune await the few with the faith to fall forward despite frustrating failures.

It is a weak man who blames his failures on the strength of others.

If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault.

Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.