Quotes about Failure
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.
- Mark Twain
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.
- Desmond Tutu
If in 100 years I am only known as the man who invented Sherlock Holmes then I will have considered my life a failure.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
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.
- George Clooney
Win without boasting, lose without excuses - internalize your failures and externalize your victories.
- H Jackson Brown, Jr.
Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.
- John Wooden
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.
- Ellen White
The proud may be for a time in great power, and may see success in all that they undertake; but in the end they will find only disappointment and wretchedness.
- Ellen White
Those who defer obedience till every shadow of uncertainty disappears and there remains no risk of failure or defeat, will never obey at all.
- Ellen White
We can choose to gather to our hearts the thorns of disappointment, failure, loneliness, and dismay due to our present situation, or we can gather the flowers of God's grace, unbounding love, abiding presence, and unmatched joy.
- Barbara Johnson
When you know you have unconditional love, there is no point in rebellion and no need to fear failure. I was free to follow my instincts, enjoy my life, and love my parents as much as they loved me.
- George W. Bush
Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.
- Julie Andrews