Quotes About Failure

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

We may outrun By violent swiftness And lose by over-running.

Oft expectation fails, and most oft thereWhere most it promises.

Oft expectation fails, and most oft where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest; and despair most sits.

The only time you don't fail is the last time you try anything — and it works.

What's more, our government's responses were late, slow, indecisive and almost impossible to understand. Perhaps the worst outcome so far is the rise of "moral hazard." When risky behavior is insured against the consequences of its failure, that is considered moral hazard. If performed on a broad enough scale, it can be catastrophic for a nation.

Every failure is a step to success. Every detection of what is false directs us towards what is true: every trial exhausts some tempting form of error.

Accustom yourself to look first to the dreadful consequences of failure; then fix your eye on the glorious prize which is before you; and when your strength begins to fail, and your spirits are well nigh exhausted, let the animating view rekindle your resolution, and call forth in renewed vigour the fainting energies of your soul.

I think that's the only way you can ever be truly successful in this world. You have to acknowledge that it is from above. And you have to have the confidence that even if you lose it all, things will be okay. You have to be willing to fail, and all the while work your tail off to succeed.

I eventually became proud of my strikeouts, because each one represented another learning experience.

Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.

Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.

Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.

We all must learn not to pray according to our victory. It is easy to pray after we have been victorious, but not after we have failed.

I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately triumph than to triumph in a cause that will ultimately fail

I would rather fail in a cause that would ultimately succeed, than succeed in a cause that would ultimately fail.

Given the consistency and dimensions of his exaltation of flops, it has remained a puzzle on par with string theory how he manages to raise money for each fresh theatrical holocaust.

If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.

If you're not failing now and again, it's a sign you're playing it safe.

If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.

The failures and successes are necessary for learning.

My story of success and failure is not just about music and being famous. It's about living and loving and trying to find purpose in this crazy world.