Quotes about Failure

"Murphy's Law": If something can go wrong, it will.

Bad Command or File Name. Good try, though.

Success always occurs in private, and failure in full view.

Leaders who fail to prune their pride will meet demise. That's not a guess, it's a guarantee. With pride, it's not a matter of 'if' we will fall, but 'when.' There are no exceptions.

The more she tried to live a perfect life for God, the more she recognized her failings.

Anything and anyone can fail, he said, but brave good friends help.

It's an old, old trick of autocratic rule. Good subjects must feel guilty. The guilt begins as a feeling of failure. The good autocrat provides many opportunities for failure in the populace.

Hence, the Reformers dramatically failed to put their finger on the nerve of the original problem: a clergy-led worship service attended by a passive laity. It is not surprising, then, that the Reformers viewed themselves as reformed Catholics.

When you're in school, every little mistake is a permanent crack in your windshield. But in the real world, if you're not swerving around and hitting the guard rails every now and then, you're not going fast enough. Your biggest risk isn't failing; it's getting too comfortable.

We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.

We human beings grow through our failures, not our virtues.

The Great God Science. It has failed us, because it was never meant to be a god, but only a few true scientists understand that.