Failure Quotes

I never view mistakes as failures. They are simply opportunities to find out what doesn't work.

The one who fails to prepare is preparing to fail.

Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous. Among people of every race, color, and creed, all around the world, socialism has led to hunger in countries that used to have surplus food to export.... Nevertheless, for many of those who deal primarily in ideas, socialism remains an attractive idea -- in fact, seductive. Its every failure is explained away as due to the inadequacies of particular leaders.

Better to dare mighty things and fail than to live in a grey twilight where there is neither victory nor defeat.

When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realise that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.

I do believe that political arrangements which are based upon violence, intimidation and theft will eventually break down - and will deserve to do so.

No one is ever successful at everything that they do.

We fail, not because of big problems, but because of small purposes.

Children have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed of failing, but to get up and try again. Most of us adults are so afraid, so cautious, so 'safe,' and therefore so shrinking and rigid and afraid that it is why so many humans fail. Most middle-aged adults have resigned themselves to failure.

If you fail to plan,you can plan to fail.

If you try and fail, make another effort, andstill another...until you succeed.

I failed my way to success.

Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results.

If you have no major purpose, you are drifting toward certain failure.

Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

I was always afraid of things that worked the first time. Long experience proved that there were great drawbacks found generally before they could be got commercial; but here was something there was no doubt of.

Take the happiest man, the one most envied by the world, and in nine cases out of ten his inmost consciousness is one of failure. Either his ideals in the line of his achievements are pitched far higher than the achievements themselves, or else he has secret ideals of which the world knows nothing, and in regard to which he inwardly knows himself to be found wanting.

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.

Don't let failure get you down. Babe Ruth struck out over 1,300 times.

Failure is an inside job. So is success. If you want to achieve, you have to win the war in your thinking first. You can't let the failure outside you get inside you.

In truth, the only difference between those who have failed and those who have succeeded lies in the difference of their habits. Good habits are the key to all success. Bad habits are the unlocked door to failure. Thus, the first law I will obey, which precedeth all others is - I will form good habits and become their slave.

Failure gave me strength. Pain was my motivation

Remember, life is all what you focus on. Learn lessons and keep moving forward towards your goals and dreams... "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."

Every failure teaches a man something, to wit, that he will probably fail again.

I have had a lot of success with failure

If a man wants to set up as an innkeeper and he does not succeed, it is not comic. If, on the contrary, a girl asks to be allowed to set up as a prostitute and she fails, as sometimes happens, it is comic.

Every failed experiment is one step closer to success.

When I hear people debate the ROI of social media? It makes me remember why so many business fail. Most businesses are not playing the marathon. They're playing the sprint. They're not worried about lifetime value and retention. They're worried about short-term goals.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it. How many a person has thrown up his or her hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience, would have achieved success. A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

The first important step in weathering failure is learning not to personalize it.

Making a mistake is falling down; failure is not getting up again.

So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.

Failure is a few Errors in judgment repeated everyday. The man says, Well I didn't walk around the block today and it didn't kill me, so it must be okay. No, no, it is that kind of error in judgment that after six years has him out of breath and panting as he walks from his car to his office. You can't make those kinds of mistakes; it will end up costing you.

When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.

In 2006, the Blockbuster board got together and said, ‘Do you know anyone using Netflix.’ …Look how that worked out. That is what happens when you put ten 80-year-old guys in a room…Be on record. Be on the right side of history. You don’t want to be the person that supported the Blockbuster decision.

Remind thyself, in the darkest moments, that every failure is only a step toward success, ... Your life will never be the same again.

As to the idea that advertising motivates people, remember the Edsel.

With every failure, every crisis, every difficult time, I say - What is this here to teach me? And as soon as you get the lesson, you get to move on. If you really get the lesson, you pass and you don't have to repeat the class.My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.

Look at government programs for the past fifty years. Every single one - except warfare - achieved the exact opposite of its announced goal.

Meet your failure nobly, and it will not differ from success.

We must reconcile ourselves to a season of failures and fragments.

Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats. Yet each struggle, each defeat, sharpens your skills and strengths, your courage and your endurance, your ability and your confidence and thus each obstacle is a comrade-in-arms forcing you to become better... or quit. Each rebuff is an opportunity to move forward; turn away from them, avoid them, and you throw away your future.

No single piece of macroeconomic advice given by the experts to their government has ever had the results predicted.

The answers to these questions will determine your success or failure. 1) Can people trust me to do what's right? 2) Am I committed to doing my best? 3) Do I care about other people and show it? If the answers to these questions are yes, there is no way you can fail.

Nothing in life is worthwhile unless you take risks. Fall forward. Every failed experiment is one step closer to success.

The difference between those who succeed and those who fail isn't what they have'it's what they choose to see and do with their resources and their expertise of life.

Ninety nine failed solutions equals a gain of 99 pieces of information.

Is it not true that the clever rogue is like the runner who runs well for the first half of the course, but flags before reaching the goal: he is quick off the mark, but ends in disgrace and slinks away crestfallen and uncrowned. The crown is the prize of the really good runner who perseveres to the end.

Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself And falls on the other side

I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I've done that sort of thing in my life, but I've always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don't know why. Because they're harder. They're much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you've completely failed.

Show me a man who makes no mistakes, and I will show you a man who doesn't do things.

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena..who errs, who comes short again and again; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who spends himself in a worthy cause.

Forget the failures. Keep the lessons.

You might say what if I screw up? Then screw up big! Go for it! Do a big screw-up!

Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.

Failure is the foundation of success: success is the lurking place of failure.

Failure is simply a price we pay to achieve success