Failure QuotesFailure quotes remind us that temporary failure comes when we try new things. Those failures are rarely fatal. They simply give us evidence of what does not work. Thomas Edison was a failure genius. Failure means you took a risk and that is a good thing. Failures are steps in the ladder of success. James Allen If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re playing it safe. Woody Allen Failure is impossible. Susan B. Anthony For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour. Mary Kay Ash To try and fail is at least to learn; to fail to try is to suffer the inestimable loss of what might have been. Chester Barnard Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. Samuel Beckett All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right-about-face which turns us from failure towards success. Dorothea Brande Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Act as though it were impossible to fail. Dorothea Brande I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate. George Burns Every failure to cope with a life situation must be laid, in the end, to a restriction of consciousness. Wars and temper tantrums are the makeshifts of ignorance; regrets are illuminations come too late. Joseph Campbell Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. Truman Capote Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success. Dale Carnegie Ninety-nine percent of all failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses. George Washington Carver Courage is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm. Winston Churchill Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. It is courage that counts. Winston Churchill I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everyone. Bill Cosby No success in public life can compensate for failure in the home. Benjamin Disraeli It only ‘doesn’t work out’ if you quit. Never, ever quit! Mike Dooley Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you’re going to do now and do it. Will Durant Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. Thomas Alva Edison Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. Thomas Alva Edison Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories. Ralph Waldo Emerson The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure. Sven Goran Eriksson No man is a failure who is enjoying life. William Feather The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. Remember, the greatest failure is to not try. Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it. Debbi Fields Thomas Edison tried 10,000 different materials before finding one that was suitable to serve as a light bulb filament. So if at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. We need to set up a system where risk is rewarded. One where we recognize that failure helps us to increase our creativity. Nothing risked is nothing gained. Beth Flynn Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently. Henry Ford Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit. Napoleon Hill Success is 99 percent failure. Soichiro Honda I’ve missed more than 9,000 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. Michael Jordan Mistakes are the portals of discovery. James Joyce There are no failures – just experiences and your reactions to them. Tom Krause If I’m not free to fail, I’m not free to take risks and everything in life that’s worth doing involves a willingness to take a risk. Madeleine L’Engle An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail. Edwin Land Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act. Maxwell Maltz The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous. On the contrary, it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel. Somerset Maugham My will shall shape my future. Whether I fail or succeed shall be no man’s doing but my own. I am the force: I can clear any obstacle before me or I can be lost in the maze. My choice, my responsibility; win or lose, only I hold the key to my destiny. Elaine Maxwell We cannot choose the things that will happen to us. But we can choose the attitude we will take toward anything that happens. Success or failure depends on your attitude. Alfred A. Montapert An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail. Isaac Newton Anxiety is love’s greatest killer. It creates the failures. It makes others feel as though you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic. Anaïs Nin You must have long-range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short-range failures. Charles C. Noble Nothing gives a man a sense of failure so often as an overdeveloped sense of perfection. George S. Odiorue What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step toward something better. Wendell Phillips Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don’t fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day. Jim Rohn Lack of discipline inevitably leads to failure. Jim Rohn It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy course; who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly; so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat. Theodore Roosevelt Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know. William Saroyan What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail? Robert H. Schuller When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn’t want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work. George Bernard Shaw Disappointment often focuses on the failure of our own agenda rather than on God's long-term purposes for us, which may use stress and struggle as tools for strengthening our spiritual muscles. Luci Shaw You may be disappointed if you fail, but you’re doomed if you don’t try. Beverly Sills If you’re gonna be a failure, at least be one at something you enjoy. Sylvester Stallone When I face the desolate impossibility of writing 500 pages, a sick sense of failure falls on me, and I know I can never do it. Then gradually, I write one page and then another. One day’s work is all that I can permit myself to contemplate. John Steinbeck Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over again, and you will grow stronger until you have accomplished a purpose-not the one you began with perhaps, but one you’ll be glad to remember. Anne Sullivan There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons. Denis Waitley The only true failure lies in failure to start. Harold Blake Walker Failure is delay, but not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead-end street. William Arthur Ward If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate. Thomas J. Watson Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness. Oprah Winfrey Failure is a signpost to turn you in another direction. Oprah Winfrey Failure is just a way for our lives to show us that we’re moving in the wrong direction, that we should try something different. It holds no more power than we give it. Oprah Winfrey Return from Failure Quotes and Sayings about Failure to Quotes Listed by Subject
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