715 Quotes Regarding Failure


Far better is it 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 a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt

I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.
Michael Jordan

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
Calvin Coolidge

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

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.
Steve Jobs

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
Tony Robbins

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.
Benjamin Franklin

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
C. S. Lewis

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit.
Napoleon Hill

Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.
Napoleon Hill

It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
Bill Gates

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
Oscar Wilde

Don't be afraid to fail. Don't waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures and go on to the next challenge. It's OK to fail. If you're not failing, you're not growing.
H. Stanley Judd

We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
Rudyard Kipling

One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.
Thomas Sowell

If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.
Zig Ziglar

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

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.
Norman Vincent Peale

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Thomas A. Edison

You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give.
E. O. Wilson