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Quotes About Failure

I have failed, and failed, and failed again,' he said. 'But no amount of failure can move Elyon's hand of affection away from me. It's inescapable. To live boldly for that kind of love is the least I can do.
~ Patrick Carman
He had attempted to preserve the skin like a hide, placing it in a solution of water and salt for about a week. He concluded that he must have used too much salt, because the skin broke into pieces and he had to throw it out. "It was very disappointing.
~ Unknown
Even if you have the innate ability to do great things, if you're petrified of failure, you won't be able to take the necessary risks to get what you want.
~ Unknown
What a sad thing men are. Can't do nothing good without being so weak we have to mess it up. Can't build something without tearing it down. It ain't the Spackle that drove us to the end. It was ourselves.
~ Patrick Ness
What a sad thing men are. Can't do nothing good without being so weak we have to mess it up. Can't build something up without tearing it down.
~ Patrick Ness
What a sad thing men are. Can't do nothing good without being so weak we have to mess it up. Can't build something up without tearing it down. It ain't the Spackle that drove us to the end. It was ourselves.
~ Patrick Ness
We would have wanted you to like us. We realise now that we probably would have failed.
~ Patrick Ness
The past always fails those who grasp at it.
~ Patrick Ness
Normally I miss deadlines like a storm trooper misses Jedi.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
It's a horrible thing to have your body fail you. You never think about it when you're young.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
I hate nothing so much as doing a thing badly.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
I am the king of good ideas gone terribly wrong.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
For me, failure has been a strict teacher of God's mercies, a curriculum I wouldn't volunteer for, yet a class I can't afford to miss.
~ Unknown
If you were sexually abused & could not go to your family for support, you deserve to realize that your family failed you fundamentally. Your parents did not provide a safe atmosphere of support & protection for their children, which is a parent's first responsibility. It was not your fault.
~ Unknown
The perosn who doesn't make mistakes is unlikely to make anything.
~ Paul Arden
Failure was a major contributor to its success.
~ Paul Arden
She knows there's no success like failure And that failure's no success at all.
~ Unknown
The demands of words are too great for that; one meets with failure too often to exult in the occasional success.
~ Paul Auster
The paradox was that the closer movies came to simulating reality, the worse they failed at representing the world - which is in us as much as it is around us.
~ Paul Auster
Listen to your mother. His favorite question was: Have you been a good boy? Ferguson tried to be a good boy and listen to his mother, although he sometimes fell down on the job and forgot to be good or to listen, but the lucky thing about those failures was that his father never seemed to notice.
~ Paul Auster
one meets with failure too often to exult in the occasional success.
~ Paul Auster
Under the right circumstances and in the right doses, physical pain and emotional pain, difficulty and failure and loss, are exactly what we are looking for.
~ Paul Bloom
The first transplant recipients did not die because their new kidneys failed, but rather because their bodies would not be fooled. Though the new kidney cells looked and acted in every respect like the old ones, they did not belong. Transplant surgeons must now give the recipient immunosuppressant drugs for the rest of the patient's life
~ Unknown
Since your standing with God is based not on your righteousness but on Christ's, in moments of failure, you can run to him and not from him.
~ Paul David Tripp