Quotes about Failure

An unwillingness to accept risk has swamped more leaders than anything I can think of.

If a teenage guy tends to overreact when he fails, there is a pretty good chance he thinks his significance is based on success.

Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down.

So while I will never minimize the costs involved in military action, I am convinced that a failure to act in Libya would have carried a far greater price for America.

I decided to become an actor because I was failing in school and I needed the credits.

I've always said if I'm winning at one thing, I'm failing at another.

As quickly as it started, our business model evaporated. But while Traf-O-Data was technically a business failure, the understanding of microprocessors we absorbed was crucial to our future success.

All those who try to go it sole alone,Too proud to be beholden for relief,Are absolutely sure to come to grief.

Washington Irving once introduced Charles Dickens at a dinner given in the latter's honor. In the middle of his speech Irving hesitated, became embarrassed, and sat down awkwardly. Turning to a friend beside him he remarked, There, I told you I would fail, and I did. If you believe you will fail, there is no hope for you. You will.

fail a stringent code of ethics and that none of us was capable of earning a place of honor.

Every Warrior of the Light has failed in his spiritual duties.

This is, perhaps, the most difficult of all mortifications to achieve a 'holy indifference' to the temporal success or failure of the cause to which one has devoted one's best energies. If it triumphs, well and good; and if it meets defeat, that also is well and good, if only in ways that, to a limited and timebound mind, are here and now entirely incomprehensible.