Quotes about Failure

If I write a book where all I've ever experienced is success, people won't take a positive lesson from it. In being candid, I have to own up to my own failures, both in my marriage and in my work environment.

God is not what you imagine or what you think you understand. If you understand you have failed.

He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.

I've told you for the fifty-thousandth time, stop exaggerating. Losers are people who are afraid of losing.

I think that I failed by not studying more, and praying more, and spending more time with my family.

what is joy without sorrow? what is success without failure? what is a win without a loss? what is health without illness? you have to experience each if you are to appreciate the other. there is always going to be suffering. it's how you look at your suffering, how you deal with it, that will define you.

It may be a procession of faithful failures that enriches the soil of godly success. Faithful actions are not religious acts. They are not even necessary actions undertaken by people of faith. Faithful actions, whether they are marked by success or they end in failure, are actions that are compelled by goodness.

If in 100 years I am only known as the man who invented Sherlock Holmes then I will have considered my life a failure.

I was very lucky to get well known much later in life. You need to have flopped quite a few times to get a sense of how little any of it has to do with you.

Win without boasting, lose without excuses - internalize your failures and externalize your victories.

Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

It is through our failure to endure the tests that come to us in little things that the habits are molded, the character misshaped; and when the greater tests.