failure quotes

Anytime we step out boldly to make changes, we take a chance that we might fail. But the only way to get better is to try.

One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way. When failure starts to feel normal in your life or your work or even your darkest vices, you won’t have to go looking for trouble, because trouble will find you. Count on it.

At places like Davos, people like to tell success stories. But their financial success has come with an unthinkable price tag. And on climate change, we have to acknowledge we have failed.

People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

I’ve actually taken companies public, I’ve actually busted companies, I’ve actually gone broke.

Movies are not novels, and that’s why, when filmmakers try to adapt novels, particularly long or complex novels, the result is almost always failure. It can’t be done.

The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God’s children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.

We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.

We all have a choice. We can create transformational action that will safeguard the living conditions for future generations. Or we can continue with our business as usual and fail.

You can’t be afraid to fail. It’s the only way you succeed – you’re not gonna succeed all the time, and I know that.

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.

We will all fail in life, but nobody has to be a failure. Failing at a thing doesn’t make you a failure. You are only a failure when you quit trying.

Well, I think that there’s a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you’re likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line.

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

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

I’m not going to get somewhere and say, ‚OK, I’m done.‘ Success is never final; I’ll just keep on going. The same way as failure never being fatal. Just keep going. I’m going to the stars and then past them.

We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.

Of course, violence will not end with our combat mission. Extremists will continue to set off bombs, attack Iraqi civilians and try to spark sectarian strife. But ultimately, these terrorists will fail to achieve their goals.

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.

No one is ever successful at everything that they do.

Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable.

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

If we don’t succeed we run the risk of failure.

Assuming if there’s such a thing as reality, if you have a false relationship with it, how can you do anything but fail?

The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn’t make it.

Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.

Egos are never nice. I have been a victim of it a lot of times in my career. Whenever I have used it, I have failed.

The thing I always say to people is this: ‚If you avoid failure, you also avoid success.‘

Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong.

The difference between us and them, between you and success, is not that you never fail, but it’s how you recover from those failures – is that you keep getting up time and time again. You figure out what you did wrong, and then you make it right. I say that to my kids every day.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.

Treat failure as a lesson on how not to approach achieving a goal, and then use that learning to improve your chances of success when you try again. Failure is only the end if you decide to stop.

Nobody likes to fail. I want to succeed in everything I do, which isn’t much. But the things that I’m really passionate about, if I fail at those, if I’m not successful, what do I have?

He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.

The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.

Well, I screwed it up real good, didn’t I?

I thank God for my failures. Maybe not at the time but after some reflection. I never feel like a failure just because something I tried has failed.

I don’t think that you can invent on behalf of customers unless you’re willing to think long-term, because a lot of invention doesn’t work. If you’re going to invent, it means you’re going to experiment, and if you’re going to experiment, you’re going to fail, and if you’re going to fail, you have to think long term.

They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?

Most people have the opportunity of a lifetime flash right in front of them, and they fail to see it. A year later, they find out about it, after everyone else got rich.

The biggest risk is not taking any risk… In a world that is changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.

I’m hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure.

To not follow your passion in life is a recipe for failure and unhappiness.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.

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

Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

If you don’t understand the details of your business you are going to fail.

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

A passionate belief in your business and personal objectives can make all the difference between success and failure. If you aren’t proud of what you’re doing, why should anybody else be?

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.

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.