Failures Quotes

What is jealousy but a reflection of your own failures?

Ignore past failures and forge ahead.

The errors of great men are venerable because they are more fruitful than the truths of little men.

Better a false belief than no belief at all.

The unteachable man is sentenced to being taught only by experience. The tragedy is he reaches nothing further than his own pain.

I treat winning and losing exactly the same. I see them both as necessary steps to get us where we are going. Big failures big lessons little failures little lessons.

The man who can own up to his error is greater than he who merely knows how to avoid making it.

Do not let your ambitions become a sanctuary for your failures.

Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Who would not rather flounder in the fight than not have known the glory of the fray?

It is a very dangerous thing to have an idea that you will not practice.

It was like a dream you might have after death in which lost people came back to life, your friends loved you again no matter what you had done, and your failures were unaccountably forgiven.

No man ever progressed to greatness and goodness but through great mistakes.

The sight of a cage is only frightening to the bird that has once been caught.

What we have most to fear is failure of the heart.

Defeat is a thing of weariness of incoherence of boredom.

They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has but I notice he usually blunders forward.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

The fault dear Brutus is not in our stars but in ourselves.

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

Failure is only an opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He does not say "My men were beaten " he says "I was beaten."

I believe we are solely responsible for our choices and we have to accept the consequences of every deed word and thought throughout our lifetime.

A man finds he has been wrong at every stage of his career only to deduce the astonishing conclusion that he is at last entirely right.

I think and think for months for years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

There are no mistakes no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from.

Failure is a school in which the truth always grows strong.

Do not be afraid of mistakes providing you do not make the same one twice.

The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

A failure is a man who has blundered but is not able to cash in the experience.

The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything.

Finite to fail but infinite to venture.

Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times you don't want to set him down as a failure until he's dead or loses his courage - and that's the same thing.

A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

Inside of a ring or out ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong.

To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and fall.

If you're not failing you're not trying anything.

It is human to err but it is devilish to remain willfully in error.

He that has much to do will do something wrong.

There are defeats more triumphant than victories.

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.

To know that one has never really tried - that is the only death.

Not failure but low aim is a crime.

He alone fails who gives up and lies down.

It ain't no disgrace for a man to fall but to lie there and grunt is.

Sometimes what you want to do has to fail so you won't.

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

If you have made mistakes even serious ones there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.

No honest work of man or woman "fails" it feeds the sum of all human action.

I count everything loss, to gain anything under the power of grace in Jesus Christ.