Failure Quotes

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. - Michael Jordan

We should not let success go to our heads, or our failures go to our hearts. - Author Unknown

Success and failure comes in pairs. Either you have a pair of aces called "Resolve and Undenied" or a pair of jokers called "Wishing and Won't-ing"... your hand to play. - Doug Firebaugh

Far better is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure than to take rank with hose poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much because they live in the grey twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat. - Theodore Roosevelt

The psychotherapist learns little or nothing from his success. They mainly confirm his in his mistakes, while his failures, on the other hand, are priceless experiences in that they not only open up the way to a deeper truth, but force him to change his views and methods. - C.G. Jung

One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure. - Author Unknown

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure. - Benjamin Disraeli

I didn't fail. I just discovered another way not to invent the electric light bulb. - Thomas Edison

The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. Remember, the greatest failure is to not try. Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it. - Debbi Fields

We fear that our limitations will cause us to fail, and procrastination lets us avoid the humiliation of failure. - Bobbe Sommer

67% percent of all people who fail to reach their goals, fail because they never implemented a proven system to keep themselves motivated. - Christopher Guerriero

Errant assumptions lie at the root of every failure. - Brian Tracy

Never accept failure, no matter how often it visits you. Keep on going. Never give up. Never. - Dr Michael Smurfit

I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play to win. - Tom Hopkins

No man ever achieved worthwhile success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure. - Napoleon Hill

Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough. - Og Mandino

Learn from the negative as well as the positive, from the failures as well as the successes. - Jim Rohn

Successful people begin where failures leave off. Never settle for "just getting the job done." Excel! - Tom Hopkins

A man's life is interesting primarily when he had failed - for it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself. - Georges Clemenceau

If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me, I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress. - Calvin Coolidge

Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach. - Roger Von Oech

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. - Elbert Hubbard

Failure is an opinion. It is either an educational tool for starting over or an excuse breeding tool for saying it's over. - Doug Firebaugh

Failure is merely an opportunity to more intelligently begin again. - Henry Ford

No one is a failure until they blame somebody else. - Charles Tremendous Jones

Men do not fail; they give up trying. - Elihu Root

Only he who does nothing makes a mistake. - French Proverb

If only one could have two lives; the first in which to make one's mistakes, which seem as if they had to be made; and the second in which to profit by them. - D.H. Lawrence

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

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time. It is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable. - Sidney J Harris

I have always found that each step we take in life is to be regretted, if we once begin to wonder how many other steps might have been possible. - John Oliver Hobbes

We should have no regrets. We should never look back. The past is finished. There is nothing to be gained by going over it. Whatever it gave us in the experiences it brought us something we had to know. - Rebecca Beard

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit. - Conrad Hilton

Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit. - Robert Schuller

Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul. - Douglas McArthur

Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.

Think of the long view of life, not just what's going to happen today or tomorrow. Don't give up what you most want in life for something you think you want now. - Elder Richard G. Scott

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. - Harriet Beecher Stowe

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent. - Marilyn vos Savant

Never give up, never give in, and when the upper hand is ours, may we have the ability to handle the win with the dignity that we absorbed the loss. - Doug Williams

Never quit. Don't ever, ever quit. Recognize that stopping now, regrouping to try a new approach isn't quitting. If you quit you'll regret it forever. - Rudy Ruettiger

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown. - Ross Perot

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