Best Personal Failure Quotes

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.

I did have a relationship with Miss Lewinsky that was not appropriate. In fact, it was wrong. It constituted a critical lapse in judgment and a personal failure on my part for which I am solely and completely responsible.

At the end of the day I have always seen the end of my relationships as a personal failure. There is nothing ever pretty in saying goodbye.

In baseball, even the best hitters fail seven of ten times, and of those seven failures there are different reasons why. Some are personal failures, others are losses to the pitcher. You just get beat. In those personal failures, I felt I could have done better.

To be truthful, some writers stop you dead in your tracks by making you see your own work in the most unflattering light. Each of us will meet a different harbinger of personal failure, some innocent genius chosen by us for reasons having to do with what we see as our own inadequacies. The only remedy to this I have found is to read a writer whose work is entirely different from another, though not necessarily more like your own—a difference that will remind you of how many rooms there are in the house of art.

Our society teaches a woman at a certain age who is unmarried to see it as a deep personal failure. While a man at a certain age who is unmarried has not quite come around to making his pick.

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

Stringent standards of self-evaluation [can] make otherwise objective successes seem to be personal failures

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

the knowledge of personal failure … is the invaluable predicate of all honest compassion.