Quotes tagged ‘Failing’

“I saw a great love as a kind of perfect love. Maybe it's not. Maybe a great love, like a great country or a great leader even... is a flawed one. Maybe what makes it great is its embrace of our failings, our scars...our fucked-upedness... as long as we are questioning always for the better... knowin…”

— Tony McNamara, Catherine, Elle Fanning, imdb.com

“She is the only person who has been here for me. The only person that doesn't make me feel like I am failing at everything.”

— Anthony King, Jen Harding, Christina Applegate, imdb.com

“You learn much more from failure than success, and honestly analyzing one’s failures can lead to the type of introspection that helps us grow — as well as show that the path to success isn’t a straight line.”

— Tim Herrera, nytimes.com

“Here’s my day so far; went to jail, lost the girl of my dreams and got my butt kicked pretty good. Still, things could be a lot worse. Oh, that’s right…I’m falling to my death. Guess they can’t. How did it all come to his you ask. My end starts at the beginning, the very beginning!”

— Alan J. Schoolcraft, Brent Simons, Megamind (voice), Will Ferrell, imdb.com

“'Don't be afraid to fail' — people allowed to recover from failure and not have it be used against them to withhold any future they may have.”

— Jonny Sun, twitter.com

“Dream audaciously. Have the courage to fail forward. Act with urgency.”

— Phil Knight, addicted2success.com

“The only time you must not fail is the last time you try.”

— Phil Knight, inc.com

“The root of a nation's misfortunes has to be sought in the moral failings of the government.”

— Aung San Suu Kyi, amazon.com

“What was the circle's excuse for failing to complete his assignment? I didn't get around to it.”

— Spicymeatball314, reddit.com

“At the end of a miserable day, instead of grieving my virtual nothing, I can always look at my loaded wastepaper basket and tell myself that if I failed, at least I took a few trees down with me.”

— David Sedaris, amazon.com

“The reason why so many people fail, is because they are worried about what other people think of them.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk, garyvaynerchuk.com

“Entrepreneurship is not fancy… Entrepreneurship is hard. It’s fighting fires, it’s failure after failure.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk, garyvaynerchuk.com

“I deem almost everything else a micro failure. I believe that most people look at micro failures and make them bigger than they are. It’s a mindset. There’s always a way to come back if it didn’t kill you.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk, garyvaynerchuk.com

“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”

— Samuel Beckett, amazon.com

“You are going to fail, and failing, for me, is as joyful as succeeding. Failing means that there is something to learn, and we can improve and do it better next time.”

— Sebastian Thrun, brainyquote.com

“Most people never pick up the phone, most people never ask. And that’s what separates the people that do things from the people that just dream about them. You gotta act. And you gotta be willing to fail.”

— Steve Jobs, youtube.com

“Sometimes to survive the biggest pains on the way up, you have to fly without a safety net. You have to fall.”

— James Altucher, thoughtcatalog.com

“Which is worse: failing or never trying?”

— David K. William, lifehack.org

“I’m just a big, fat Wookiee-humping loser with no future!”

— Daniel Palladino, Rory Gilmore, Alexis Bledel, imdb.com

“That which we manifest is before us; we are the creators of our own destiny. Be it through intention or ignorance, our successes and our failures have been brought on by none other than ourselves.”

— Garth Stein, amazon.com