Failures Quotes

Failure really isn't terrible if you can say to yourself hey I know I'm gonna be successful at what I want to do someday. Failure doesn't become a big hangup then because it's only temporary. If failure is absolute then it would be a disaster but as long as it's only temporary you can just go and achieve almost anything.

~ Jerry Delia Femina

Failure is an event never a person.

~ William D. Brown

It is better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too late.

~ Marilyn Moats Kennedy

I've never met a person I don't care what his condition in whom I could not see possibilities. I don't care how much a man may consider himself a failure I believe in him for he can change the thing that is wrong in his life anytime he is prepared and ready to do it. Whenever he develops the desire he can take away from his life the thing that is defeating it. The capacity for reformation and change lies within.

~ Preston Bradley

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

~ Albert Einstein

Take chances make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.

~ Mary Tyler Moore

Take risks. You can't fall off the bottom.

~ Barbara Proctor

When it goes wrong you feel like cutting your throat but you go on. You don't let anything get you down so much that it beats you or stops you.

~ George Cukor

You must have long-range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short-range failures.

~ Charles C. Noble

Life is a series of relapses and recoveries.

~ George Ade

We learn courageous action by going forward whenever fear urges us back. A little boy was asked how he learned to skate. By getting up every time I fell down he answered.

~ David Seabury

If I had to live my life over again I'd dare to make more mistakes next time.

~ Nadine Stair

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

~ Herbert Kaufman

Entrepreneurs average 3.8 failures before final success. What sets the successful ones apart is their amazing persistence. There are a lot of people out there with good and marketable ideas but pure entrepreneurial types almost never accept defeat.

~ Lisa M. Amos

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

~ Winston Churchill

I don't accept defeat as final. Only death is final - and even then I hope for a reprieve.

~ Phil Gramm

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

Men's best successes come after their disappointments.

~ Henry Ward Beecher

I've been failing for like ten or eleven years. When it turns it'll turn. Right now I'm just tryin' to squeeze through a very tight financial period get the movie out and put my things in order.

~ Francis Ford Coppola

Don't let a kick in the ass stop you. It's how you cope that says what you are.

~ George Cukor

What is to be got at to make the air sweet the ground good under the feet can only be got at by failure trial again and again and again failure.

~ Sherwood Anderson

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

~ Thomas A. Edison

Some of the biggest failures I ever had were successes.

~ Pearl S. Buck

Not all who seem to fail have failed indeed. Not all who fail have therefore worked in vain. There is no failure for the good and brave.

~ Archbishop Trench

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

~ Michelene Wandor

Defeat in doing right is nevertheless victory.

~ Frederick W. Robertson

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

~ George Eliot

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

~ Margueritte Harmon Bro

There are defeats more triumphant than victories.

~ Michel De Montaigne

An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.

~ Caroline L. Gascoigne

Nothing succeeds like failure.

~ Rebecca West

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.

~ George Horace Lorimer

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

~ Sonia Johnson

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

~ William Feather

You are beaten to earth? Well well what's that? Come up with a smiling face it's nothing against you to fall down flat but to lie there - that's disgrace.

~ Edmund Vance Cooke

He alone fails who gives up and lies down.

~ Ralph Waldo Trine

Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes.

~ Lewis E. Lawes

Failure is not in losing but in no longer believing that winning is worthwhile.

~ Anonymous

He's no failure. He's not dead yet.

~ W. L. George

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

~ Muhammad Ali