Quotes about Failure

Success needs no explanation. Failure does not have one that matters.

Believe it or not, Christianity is not about good people getting better. If anything, it is good news for bad people coping with their failure to be good.

self-defeating statement is one that fails to meet its own standard.

Most schools don't do this job well at all. Instead, most children feel failure when they go to class. They could also hire athletics to do the job. For a few, sports do the job well. But for the less gifted, athletics makes students feel failure, too. So they hire electronic games to feel successful. And yet for many, even such games yield failure. So they hire friends who have feelings of failure, too—and engage in drugs and other things to feel successful.

We know that people who fail in their jobs often do so not because they are inherently incapable of succeeding, but because their experiences have not prepared them for the challenges of that job—in other words, they've taken the wrong "courses.

We saw for a moment laid out among us the body of the complete human being whom we have failed to be, but at the same time, cannot forget.

Virtually all the characters in the novel have failed to live up to their early dreams and ambitions.

Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn; and you are too sensible a man not to learn from this failure.

is too late for that. I shall never be better than I am. I shall sink lower, and be worse.

Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.

The United States of America will never be intimidated by thugs and assassins. The killers will fail, and the Iraqi people will live in freedom.

Pain that results in success is better than pleasure that results in failure.