Quotes about Failure
Humility is the only soil in which virtue takes root; a lack of humility is the explanation of every defect and failure.
— Andrew Murray
Trials in this life will expose what is in your heart—whether the offense is toward God or others. Tests either make you bitter toward God and your peers or stronger. If you pass the test, your roots will shoot down deeper, stabilizing you and your future. If you fail, you become offended, which can lead to defilement with bitterness.
— John Bevere
The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.
— John Maxwell
For three decades, we have sought to solve the problems of unemployment through government planning, and the more the plans fail, the more the planners plan.
— Ronald Reagan
A great artist has to be ready to fail.
— Marina Abramovic
If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Great marketing only makes a bad product fail faster.
— David Ogilvy
The history of mankind is little else than a narrative of designs which have failed and hopes that have been disappointed.
— Samuel Johnson
A nation that fails to honor its heroes, soon will have no heroes to honor.
— Winston Churchill
Perplexed and troubled at his bad success the tempter stood, nor had what to reply, discovered in his fraud, thrown from his hope.
— John Milton
Most people fail, not because of lack of desire, but, because of lack of commitment.
— Vince Lombardi Jr.
Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn't have to be like this.
— Stephen Hawking