Failure Quotes

If it does not work the first time, try, try again. Then quit. No need to be an idiot.

Nothing is so common as unsuccessful men with talent. They lack only determination.

I assume my stance, and take back the club, low, slowly; at the top, my eyes fog over, and my joints dip and swirl like barn swallows, I swing. There is a fruitless commotion of dust and rubber at my feet. "Smothered it," I say promptly. After enough lessons the terminology becomes second nature.

I failed so therefore I succeed.

Success is not getting to the top - but how you bounce up from the bottom that counts.

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

People who fail focus on what they will have to go through; people who succeed focus on what it will feel like at the end.

Just because you've failed once, it doesn't mean you're going to fail at everything.

Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.

I've never been afraid to fail.

He who fails to prepare, prepares to fail

If you're not failing, you're probably not really moving forward.

That's what you want to do? Then nothing beats a trial but a failure. Give it everything you've got. I've told you many times, 'Cant do is like Dont Care.' Neither of them have a home.

Do not judge me by my success, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.

Racism does not have a good track record. It's been tried out for a long time and you'd think by now we'd want to put an end to it instead of putting it under new management.

The reason I shift gears constantly, why I'm doing an opera, why I've done essays, why I've written poetry for years that nobody wanted, why I do short stories and novels and screenplays... is so I will have new ways of failing. This means becoming a student again.

To learn to succeed, you must first learn to fail.

You can't be paralyzed by fear of failure or you will never push yourself.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.

Lamon, that speech won't scour. It is a flat failure and the people are disappointed.

The highest reward for our toil is not what we get for it but what we become by it. ... Mistakes are not failures. They are proof that we are making an effort. When we understand that, we can more easily move out of our comfort zone, try something new, and improve. ... Improvement demands a commitment to grow long after the mood in which it was made has passed.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnson's administration, especially in the Pentagon, where Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's brilliant 'whiz kids' tried to micro-manage the Vietnam war, with disastrous results.

I missed 9000 shots in my career, lost almost 300 games and missed the shot to win the game 26 times.

Those who praise themselves do not prevail.

I have failed many times, but I have never gone into a game expecting myself to fail.

The twin killers of success are impatience and greed.

Success is not achieved by winning all the time. Real success comes when we rise after we fall.

The chief factor in any man's success or failure must be his own character.

While we cannot guarantee that we shall one day be first, we can guarantee that any failure to make this effort will make us last.

All golfers fear the one-iron. It has no angle, no loft. The one-iron is a confidence-crusher, a fear trip, an almost guarantee of shame, failure, dumbness and humiliation if you ever use it in public.

If everything I did failed - which it doesn't, it actually succeeds - just the fact that I'm willing to fail is an inspiration. People are so scared to lose that they don't even try. Like, one thing people can't say is that I'm not trying, and not I'm not trying my hardest, and I'm not trying to do the best way I know how.

Mr. Edison worked endlessly on a problem, using the method of elimination. If a person asked him if he were discouraged because so many attempts proved unavailing, he would say, "No, I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.".

I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.

Not to innovate is the single largest reason for the decline of existing organizations. Not to know how to manage is the single largest reason for the failure of new ventures.

We can let our past [difficulties and failures] beat us or teach us [to be more knowledgeable, competent and realistic in the future]!

The secret of success is to triple your rate of failure.

If you fail, never give up because F.A.I.L. means "first Attempt In Learning".

I know fear is an obstacle for some people, but it is an illusion to me . . . Failure always made me try harder next time.

Successful people make decisions quickly (as soon as all the facts are available) and change them very slowly (if ever). Unsuccessful people make decisions very slowly, and change them often and quickly.

The unsuccessful person is burdened by learning, and prefers to walk down familiar paths. Their distaste for learning stunts their growth and limits their influence.

Want to impress others? Talk about your successes. Want to impact others? Talk about your failures.

We haven't failed. We now know a thousand things that won't work, so we are much closer to finding what will.

And when one of you falls down he falls for those behind him, a caution against the stumbling stone. Ay, and he falls for those ahead of him, who though faster and surer of foot, yet removed not the stumbling stone.

We fought a war on poverty, and poverty won

The usual devastating put-downs imply that a person is basically bad, rather than that he is a person who sometimes does bad things. Obviously, there is a vast difference between a "bad" person and a person who does something bad.Besides, failure is an event, it is not a person - yesterday ended last night.

To give you an idea how well I was doing at the time I quit, I was the only one who knew I quit.

You are fortunate if you have learned the difference between temporary defeat and failure, more fortunate still if you have learned the truth that the very seed of success is dormant in every defeat that you experience.

The farmer after sacrificing pleasure, taste, freedom, thought, love, to his work, turns out often a bankrupt, like the merchant.This result might well seem astounding. All this drudgery, from cockcrowing to starlight, for all these years, to end in mortgages and the auctioneer's flag, and removing from bad to worse. It is time to have the thing looked into, and with a sifting criticism ascertained who is the fool.

The only way to fail is to quit.

Don't let your failures define you.

Good attitudes among players do not guarantee a team's success, but bad attitudes guarantee it's failure.

Leaders who fail to prune their pride will meet demise. That's not a guess, it's a guarantee. With pride, it's not a matter of 'if' we will fall, but 'when.' There are no exceptions.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

If it turns out that my best wasn't good enough, at least I won't look back and say that I was afraid to try; failure makes me work even harder.

Trust me I never lose. Either I win or learn from it

I started SpaceX with the expectation of failure.

He felt as though he were failing in practically every area of his life. Lately, happiness seemed as distant and unattainable to him as space travel. He hadn't always felt this way. There had been a long period of time during which he remembered being very happy. But things change. People change. Change was one of the inevitable laws of nature, exacting its toll on people's lives. Mistakes are made, regrets form, and all that was left were repercussions that made something as simple as rising from the bed seem almost laborious.

It is only through timidity that states are lost.