Failure Quotes And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

“If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it’s a failure.”
– Doug Coupland

“If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.”
– E. O. Wilson

“There is no failure except in no longer trying.”
– Elbert Hubbard

“The greatest mistake you can make in life is to continually be afraid you will make one.”
– Elbert Hubbard

“A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.”
– Elbert Hubbard

“When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important.”
– Ellen DeGeneres

“It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression.”
– Eric Hoffer

“But instead of spending our lives running towards our dreams, we are often running away from a fear of failure or a fear of criticism.”
– Eric Wright

“Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald

“My past is everything I failed to be.”
– Fernando Pessoa

“Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.”
– Florence Scovel Shinn

“A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions–as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche

“Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.”
– Gary Ryan Blair

“Giving up is the only sure way to fail.”
– Gena Showalter

“Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.”
– George Edward Woodberry

“Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.”
– George Eliot

“I’m proof against that word failure. I’ve seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.”
– George Eliot

“Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.”
– George Herman “Babe” Ruth

“I’m hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure.”
– George W. Bush

“If you’re doing your best, you won’t have any time to worry about failure.”
– H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

“Don’t be afraid to fail. Don’t waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures and go on to the next challenge. It’s OK to fail. If you’re not failing, you’re not growing.”
– H. Stanley Judd

“If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.”
– H.G. Wells

“If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.”
– Henry Ford

“One who fears failure limits his activities. Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again.”
– Henry Ford

“Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.”
– Henry Ford

“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 is only postponed success as long as courage ‘coaches’ ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.”
– Herbert Kaufman

“Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.”
– J. K. Rowling

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