In Failure Quotes

There are secret opportunities hidden inside every failure.

Repetition is not failure. Ask the waves, ask the leaves, ask the wind.

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

don't sabotage your own greatness by succumbing to failure!

If in 100 years I am only known as the man who invented Sherlock Holmes then I will have considered my life a failure.

What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?

Most people think of success and failure as opposites, but they both are products of the same process.

I train so hard to make sure failure doesn't happen. If I do everything I can, and run as fast as I possibly can and someone still beats me, I don't think of that as failure.

It takes faith and the courage to risk failure in order to realize one's destiny. Having had my share of failures throughout my career I know that it is well worth the risk.

Negative results are just what I want. They’re just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don’t.

Winning may not be everything, but losing has little to recommend it.

So many financial dreams are thwarted by the failure to act upon good intentions.

It is true that success is the most boring thing, it is tinny and brittle, failure runs deeper. Success is dangerous. I have a very complicated relationship with that word.

if you gone come in second, you're just the first loser!

Failure is not the outcome - failure is not trying. Don't be afraid to fail.

Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds - all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.

The only failure is not trying.

It's not about failure; it's about trying something and risking something for attaining your goal.

Would anyone choose Hell over Heaven? YES! Why? Pride. They don't want to go in the only way you can go in, on your knees. They don't want to admit they are a failure, that their life is a mess.

To develop working ideas efficiently, I try to fail as fast as I can.

Failure is the only thing I've ever been a success at.

There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain.

There is a deep, abiding, unshakable satisfaction in a life of complete failure.

All men are mortal, and therefore all men are losers; our profoundest loyalty goes out to the failed.

Initiative is the essence of manhood. Noting comes to the man who is passive, except failure.

You grow stronger from failure than you do from success.

Stop putting it off! Procrastination breeds guilt, guilt breeds depression, and depression breeds failure.

The mere thought of divorce terrified me. To me, divorce symbolized failure.

Right now, huge numbers of people cannot obtain even drinking water, and the situation is likely to become worse with predicted climate change and failure to take the actions that are necessary.

I don’t believe in failure; I believe there are setbacks that are put into our path to teach us something and move us in a different direction.

THE ONLY REAL FAILURE IS TO FAIL OTHERS.

In the thirty years of my career I learned everything about success, but I did not learn, really, about failure. In Bar Rescue I got exposed to failure at a very deep level.

Good subjects must feel guilty. The guilt begins as a feeling of failure. The good autocrat provides many opportunities for failure in the populace.

Success simple disciplines, practiced every day, while failure a few errors in judgment, repeated every day. Choose to succeed.

Never feel shame for trying and failing, for he who never failed is he who never tried.

Failure concentrates the mind wonderfully. If you don't make mistakes, you're not trying hard enough.

I feel like the biggest failure of humans is miscommunication. We can't communicate with each other-we can fight, we can kill, we can do those things well.

I'm afraid of everything. Fear of being alone, fear of being hurt, fear of being made a fool of, fear of failure... Still, I think all my fears bleed from one big one.

A shy failure is nobler than an immodest success.

Bad excuses are worse than none.

The rule is: we cannot really forgive ourselves unless we look at the failure in our past and call it by its right name.

How few things can a man measure with the tape of his understanding ; How many greater things might he be seeing in the meanwhile.

Success is seldom permanent, and failure is seldom fatal. The important thing is to keep trying.

Was it always my nature to take a bad time and block out the good times, until any success became an accident and failure seemed the only truth?

We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success.

There was never any fear for me, no fear of failure. If I miss a shot, so what?

The question to ask is not whether you are a success or a failure, but whether you are a learner or a nonlearner.

Those who succeed and do not push on to greater failure are the spiritual middle-classers.

Failure is not meant to be final and fatal.... It is meant to refine you to be all that you are meant to be.

The biggest enemies we have to overcome on the road to success are not a lack of ability and a lack of opportunity but fears of failure and rejection and the doubts that they trigger.