Quotes about Failure

The act of trying to guarantee the success of an innovation is almost certain to make it less likely that it will succeed.

Perfect closes the door. It asserts that we're done, that this is the best we can do. Worse, perfect forbids us to try. To seek perfection and not reach it is a failure.

Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

There is no sorrow I have thought more about than that—to love what is great, and try to reach it, and yet to fail.

Many Theresas have been born who found for themselves no epic life wherein there was a constant unfolding of far-resonant action; perhaps only a life of mistakes, the offspring of a certain spiritual grandeur ill-matched with the meanness of opportunity; perhaps a tragic failure which found no sacred poet and sank unwept into oblivion.

My sense of my own superiority over many of my classmates would have been much more muted if I knew that they had seen me failing miserably at woodwork or cross-stitch.

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.