Failure Quotes - Page 9

Success builds character, failure reveals it.

Don't fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgement, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is PRIDE, the never-failing vice of fools.

If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be progress. For the price Newton had to pay for being a supreme intellect was that he was incapable of friendship, love, fatherhood, and many other desirable things. As a man he was a failure; as a monster he was superb.

Failure is enriching. It's also important to accept that you'll make mistakes - it's how you build your expertise. The trick is to learn a positive lesson from all of life's negative moments.

It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.

The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.

Businesses should follow and learn from others successes and failures in order to better understand and predict their own.

There is only one kind of failure I cannot tolerate: the failure to risk failure.

You can't be held captive by the fear of failure or the fear of what people may say.

Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure.

There is no failure in God's will, and no success outside of God's will.

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win.

Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.

Love doesn't keep a score of wrongs. Love doesn't bring up past failures. (1 Cor 13:5)

Success is relative. It is what we make of the mess we have made of things.

There is no such thing as failure, there's just giving up too soon.

A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.

If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done.

There Is No Failure. It's Only Un-Finished Success.

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.

No man can be a failure if he thinks he's a success; If he thinks he is a winner, then he is.

The acceptance of ambiguity implies more than the commonplace understanding that some good things and some bad things happen to us. It means that we know that good and evil are inextricably intermixed in human affairs; that they contain, and sometimes embrace, their opposites; that success may involve failure of a different kind, and failure may be a kind of triumph.

Great achievers are driven, not so much by the pursuit of success, but by the fear of failure.