Quotes for Failure

"The better a man is, the more mistakes he will make, for the more new things he will try. I would never promote to a top-level job a man who was not making mistakes...otherwise he is sure to be mediocre."
- Peter Druker

"One’s best success comes after his greatest disappointments."
––Henry Ward Beecher

"He is foolish to blame the sea who is shipwrecked twice."
–– Publilius Syrus

"Everyone has his burden. What counts is how you carry it."
––Merle Miller

"Don’t be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps."
–– David Lloyd George

"Learn to see in another’s calamity the ills that you should avoid."
––Thomas Jefferson

"A man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies.”
– William Wrigley Jr.

"Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it’s only kept a secret from the person who fails.”
–Robert Half

"In some attempts, it is glorious even to fail." Longinus

Remember, you only have to succeed the last time.
Brian Tracy

"Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently." Henry Ford

"Failures are divided into two classes - those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought." John Charles Salak

"Many of life's failures are men who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." Anonymous

"I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it." Lou Holtz


Incorrect assumptionslie at the root of every failure.Have the courage to test your assumption.
Brian Tracy


"When you are down on your back, if you can look up, you can get up." Les Brown


"Success is not permanent. The same is also true of failure."Dell Crossword

"In order to succeed, you must first be willing to fail."Anonymous

"It is wise to keep in mind that no success or failure is necessarily final."Anonymous

"One great source of failure is found in a lack of concentration of purpose. There will be adverse winds in every voyage, but the able seaman firmly resists their influence, while he takes advantage of every favorable breeze to speed him on his course.
So in our aims and pursuits we shall find much to counteract them, much to draw our attention from them, and, unless we are armed with a steadfast purpose, that can subordinate the lesser to the greater, that can repel hindrances, resist attractions, and bend circumstances to our will, our efforts will not be crowned with success."Anonymous

"Success always occurs in private and failure in full public view."Anonymous

"The only real failure in life is the failure to try."Anonymous

"The two hardest things to handle in life are failure & success."Anonymous

"Yesterday's failures are today's seeds
That must be diligently planted to be able to abundantly harvest
Tomorrow's success."
Anonymous

"Your failures won't hurt you until you start blaming them on others."Anonymous

"Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final."Roger Ward BaBson

"There are no failures — only feedback."R. Bandler

"Failure is the path of least resistance."Sir James Matthew Barrie

"Women punish themselves for the failure to conform."Sandra Bartky

"When one door closes another door opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us."Alexander Graham Bell

It is not failure itself that holds you back;it is the fear of failure that paralyzes you.
Brian Tracy
 

"If at first you don’t succeed, think how many people you’ve made happy."H. Duane Black

"Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descripttions: could have, might have, and should have."Louis E. Boone

"A minute’s success pays the failure for years."Robert Browning

"I'd rather be a failure in something that I love than a success in something that I hate."
George Burns

"A man may fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else."
John Burroughs

"Men are failures, not because they are stupid, but because they are not sufficiently impassioned."Struther Burt