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Quotes About Failure

One of the best predictors of ultimate success in either sales or non - sales selling isn't natural talent or even industry expertise, but how you explain your failures and rejections.
~ Daniel H. Pink
When asked how to achieve success more rapidly, came the quick reply, 'Double your failure rate'.
~ Thomas J. Watson
It is failure that is easy. Success is always hard.
~ Henry Ford
Success is a pile of failure that you are standing on.
~ Dave Ramsey
Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure.
~ Thomas Watson, Jr.
Failure makes success so much sweeter, and allows you to thumb your nose at the crowds.
~ Wilbur Smith
You expect success, you respect failure.
~ Greg Norman
If you're going to define me properly, you must think in terms of my failures as well as my successes.
~ Harrison Ford
The patient person accepts a certain amount of failure knowing that it is as important a thread in the fabric of life as is success. Great individuals make great successes out of failure.
~ Denis Waitley
It is far better to be exhausted from success than to be rested from failure.
~ Mary Kay Ash
A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
~ Christian Nestell Bovee
A success is one who decided to succeed and worked. A failure is one who decided to succeed and wished.
~ William Arthur Ward
The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.
~ Sven-Goran Eriksson
Failure is a trickster with a keen sense of irony and cunning. It takes great delight in tripping one when success is almost within reach.
~ Napoleon Hill
One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.
~ Anton Chekhov
Focus on the possibilities for success, not on the potential for failure
~ Napoleon Hill
Both individual skill (art) and chance are important factors in determining success or failure.
~ Benjamin Graham
Success is failing nineteen times and soaring the twentieth.
~ Julie Andrews
The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used to failing.
~ Albert Schweitzer
Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
You'll never convince me there is a hopeless situation or there is any finality in any success or any failure.
~ Carlos Ghosn
Success is never final, but failure can be.
~ Bill Parcells
In times of defeat, we never know how close we are to victory. In every event of failure, God has planted a seed of success.
~ Charles Stanley
Success is cutting off all of your options for failure.
~ Tony Robbins