628 Quotes About Failing

Even when you self-destruct, you want to fail more, lose more, die more than others, stink more than others.

The future is always a wholeness, a sameness. We're all tall and happy there,' she said. 'This is why the future fails. It always fails. It can never be the cruel happy place we want to make it.

Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.

Those who have not found the heaven below, will fail of it above.

Everything seems stupid when it fails.

What I want is to be willing to fail rather than stagnate.

If the reason you’re taking on a mission is for the money you’ll make, I believe you’ll fail.

So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind that exhausts the imaginative capacity; if it fails to do this the failure will announce itself either in prose or in insignificant verse.

My biggest adjustment has been learning not to be afraid to fail.