Quotes About Failure

Our country's honor calls upon us for a vigorous and manly exertion; and if we now shamefully fail, we shall become infamous to the whole world.

The painful warrior famous for fight, After a thousand victories, once foil'd, Is from the books of honor razed quite, And all the rest forgot for which he toil'd

Some people get where they hope to in this world. Most of us don't.

It is only those who hope to transform human beings who end up by burning them, like the waste product of a failed experiment.

Intention is for achievers. Hope is for the hopeless.

If your theory is found to be against the second law of thermodynamics I give you no hope; there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation.

Disillusions all come from within ... from the failure of some dear and secret hope. The world makes no promises; we only dream it does; and when we wake, we cry!

Perplexed and troubled at his bad success The Tempter stood, nor had what to reply, Discovered in his fraud, thrown from his hope.

Hope is the raw material of losers.

When you put a great amount of energy and hope in a big project, you can be destroyed if you don't do it. But myself, I say: "To fail is only to see the way to fail."

Hope was based on the unknown, and I liked knowing things. Like that I was going to fail. Failure had better odds.

No sustainable prosperity or security can be attained at the expense or marginalization of others. Indeed, in today's world, humanity will either triumph or fail as a whole.

The Holocaust is not only a tragedy of the Jewish people, it is a failure of humanity as a whole.

The persistence of erroneous beliefs exacerbates the widespread anachronistic failure to recognize the urgent problems that face humanity on this planet.

Jesus can identify with our weaknesses or failures because He shared in our humanity in the flesh.

If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?

My grandfather invented the cold air balloon... But it never really took off.

My headshot is a scratch and sniff, it smells like failure and onions.

if you make waffles, throw out the first one.

If it doesn't work, at least it will be an interesting train wreck.

Writing humor in my column isn't as dangerous as performing it. If I fail in front of a live audience, the humiliation is as great as anything a human being can suffer.

That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.

The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure.

Attitude, humor and action (persistence) will whip fears and rejection. Fear of failure doesn't exist, if you believe it doesn't.