Quotes about failure
failure haste
Haste in every business brings failures. Herodotus
failure science light
When I examine the conclusion [on experiments with the electric light bulb experiments published in the Herald] which everyone acquainted with the subject will recognize as a conspicuous failure, trumpeted as a wonderful success, I [conclude]... that the writer ... must either be very ignorant, and the victim of deceit, or a conscious accomplice in what is nothing less than a fraud upon the public. Henry Morton Stanley
failure men games
The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game. Henry Ward Beecher
failure trying faces
As I said there is nothing wrong with failing. Pick yourself up and try it again. You never are going to know how good you really are until you go out and face failure. Henry Kravis
failure shy shyness
A shy failure is nobler than an immodest success. Khalil Gibran
failure may
We may stop ourselves when going up, never when coming down. Napoleon Bonaparte
failure responsibility plans
Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities. Napoleon Hill
failure men mind
No man is ever whipped until he quits - in his own mind.
failure trying life-is
The greatest failure in life is to stop trying.
failure succeed failing
Rashness succeeds often, still more often fails.
failure height infinite
My downfall raises me to infinite heights.
failure trying shame
Never feel shame for trying and failing, for he who never failed is he who never tried. Og Mandino
failure next chance
Each failure to sell will increase your chances for success at your next attempt.
failure mean men
You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them. Orison Swett Marden
failure character race
Defeats and failures are great developers of character. They have made the giants of our race by giving Titanic muscles, brawny sinews, and far-reaching intellects.
failure sleep men
To be forgotten is to sleep in peace with the undisturbed myriads, no longer subject to the chills and heats, the blasts, the sleet, the dust, which assail in endless succession that shadow of a man which we call his reputation. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
failure opportunity entrepreneur
When you reach an obstacle, turn it into an opportunity. You have the choice. You can overcome and be a winner, or you can allow it to overcome you and be a loser. The choice is yours and yours alone. Refuse to throw in the towel. Go that extra mile that failures refuse to travel. It is far better to be exhausted from success than to be rested from failure. Mary Kay Ash
failure thinking insatiable-need
The problem with most failing businesses is not that their owners don?t know enough about finance, marketing, management, and operations - they don?t, but those things are easy enough to learn - but that they spend their time and energy defending what they think they know. My experience has shown me that the people who are exceptionally good in business aren?t so because of what they know but because of their insatiable need to know more. Michael Gerber
failure men tears
Many times through the ages, like as not the chance appears, but because of indecision, man's fond hopes are drowned in tears. Ted Turner
failure adversity wrestling
Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley. Theodore Roethke
failure failing plans
Failures don't plan to fail; they fail to plan. Harvey Mackay
failure care want
I don't want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about. Emma Watson
failure legacy money taxpayers terrible value
The chancellor's failure to give Britain's taxpayers value for money will be the terrible legacy of this government.
failure fix incapacity proof stigma
The first proof of a person's incapacity to achieve, is their endeavoring to fix the stigma of failure on others.
failure light glowing
Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette. Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
failure learning want
There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure-all your life. John W. Gardner
failure pay heavy
We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure.
failure reading learning
One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
failure fall doors
There is a distinction between failing and being a failure. Few things are learned in life without failing at least once. Did you learn to roller skate without falling a few times? Did you learn to ride a bike without losing your balance? Chances are you didn't. You may have wanted to do those things so intensely that you quickly put unsuccessful attempts behind you and kept trying. Soon you acquired the skill to do the thing you wanted. Even though in the process of learning you may have failed many times, you were not a failure. "Failing" simply became an open door to try again. John Templeton
failure stuff firsts
Don't have any meetings about your web strategy. Just do stuff. First you have to fail, then you can improve. Seth Godin
failure-is-not-an-option ifs
If failure is not an option, then neither is success.
failure secret realizing
The secret to being wrong isn't to avoid being wrong! The secret is being willing to be wrong. The secret is realizing that wrong isn't fatal.
failure percent
Success is 99 percent failure. Soichiro Honda