Failure Quotes
Read our collection of inspirational quotes full of words of wisdom in these failure quotes. Never let failure stop you from achieving your dream. Remember it is only a failure if you allow it to be. We hope these words of wisdom about failure inspire you to keep on going. Never give up.not by those who dare to fail."
Lester B. Pearson
"The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows."
Buddha
"The way a man plays a game shows some of his character.
The way he loses shows all of it."
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"Some people use failure as an excuse to give up,
to become bitter, or cynical.
Other people look at failure as an opportunity to
revisit past decisions and to devise new strategies."
Catherine Pulsifer, from Do Not Be Discouraged
"A failure is a man who has blundered,
but is not able to cash in the experience."
Elbert Hubbard
"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
"Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize
how close they were to success when they gave up."
Thomas Edison
"Successful people see alternatives and are willing to try different ways.
People who only see failure are unable to see another way and give up to easily."
Catherine Pulsifer, from Hope
"Results! Why, man I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won’t work."
Thomas Edison
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"Always have the situation under control, even if losing. Never betray an inward sense of defeat."
Arthur Ashe
"If you accept failure as an opportunity to learn, it will change your whole perspective."
Catherine Pulsifer, from My Story
"If you have made mistakes...
there is always another chance for you...
you may have a fresh start any moment you choose,
for this thing we call 'Failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down."
Mary Pickford
"Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try -- you don't take the risk."
Rosalynn Carter
“There is the greatest practical benefit in making
a few failures early in life.”
T.H. Huxley
"A minute's success pays the failure of years."
Robert Browning
"Indecision and delays are the parents of failure."
George Canning
"There is no failure except in no longer trying."
Elbert Hubbard
“Fall seven times,
Stand up eight.”
Japanese Proverb
"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in that gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat."
Theodore Roosevelt
"Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure."
Edward Eggleston
"That's what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we've changed because of it and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way, is winning."
Richard Bach
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“Come to the edge,” he said.
They said, “We are afraid.”
“Come to the edge,” he said.
They came.
He pushed them…
And they flew.”
Guillaume Apollinaire
"Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently."
Henry Ford
"A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else."
John Burroughs
"There are two kinds of failures: The man who will do nothing he is told, and the man who will do nothing else."
Perle Thompson
"Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures."
Gene Brown
"If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate."
Thomas Watson, Sr
"Each failure to sell will increase your chances for success at your next attempt."
Og Mandino
"Failures don't plan to fail; they fail to plan."
Harvey Mackay
"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody."
Bill Cosby
"You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space."
Johnny Cash
"Failure leaves open a door for us to try, and try again."
Robert M. Hensel
"Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives."
Edwin Bliss
"Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped."
African Proverb
"I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure."
Anne Baxter
"The greatest failure is the failure to try."
William Arthur Ward
"Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm."
Sir Winston Churchill
"It is no sin to attempt and fail. The only sin is not to make the attempt."
SueEllen Fried
"An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots."
Charles F. Kettering
"Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive."
Scott Adams
“Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.”
Daniel Webster
"Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently."
Henry Ford
"Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final."
Roger W. Babson
"The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail."
Napoleon Hill
"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
"Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure."
Norman Vincent Peale
"Many people dream of success. To me, success can only be achieved through repeated failure and introspection."
Soichiro Honda
"Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses."
George Washington Carver
"I've never been afraid to fail.
Michael Jordan
"It's not whether you get knocked down. It's whether you get up again."
Vince Lombardi
"When I was a young man I observed than 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
"Failure is an event, never a person; an attitude, not an outcome."
Zig Ziglar
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