Quotes About Failure

It is not failure itself that holds people back; it is the fear of failure that paralyzes you.

Get it 80 percent right and then correct it later. Run it up the flagpole and see if anyone salutes. Don't expect perfection the first time or even the first few times. Be prepared to fail over and over before you get it right. The biggest enemies we have to overcome on the road to success are not a lack of ability and a lack of opportunity but fears of failure and rejection and the doubts that they trigger. The only way to overcome your fears is to do the thing you fear

There are a thousand excuses for failure but never a good reason." —MARK TWAIN

Watson replied with these wonderful words: "If you want to be successful faster, you must double your rate of failure. Success lies on the far side of failure.

Winners always accept responsibility themselves for the consequences of their actions. Losers never do but instead always have some kind of explanation for why they are doing poorly.

The biggest enemies we have to overcome on the road to success are not lack of ability and lack of opportunity but fears of failure and rejection and the doubts that they trigger.

El fracaso no me sobrecogerá jamás, si mi determinación para alcanzar el éxito es lo suficientemente poderosa.

The fact is that successful people fail far more often than unsuccessful people. Successful people try more things, fall down, pick themselves up, and try again—over and over again—before they finally win.

Como dijo Peter Drucker: «Las suposiciones errantes se encuentran en la raíz de cada fracaso».

The biggest enemies we have to overcome on the road to success are not lack of ability or opportunity, but fears of failure and rejection, and the doubts that they trigger.

I will not fail,' the water bearer's daughter vowed. 'But worse than failing is not to try at all. For then there can be no hope of success.

The old woman finally went bankrupt. She had made so much money every day, how could she have gone bankrupt? I didn't get it.

If winning cures everything, then losing poisons everything.

It's pretty tough to keep the lid on mass murder," remarked the Miami police chief. "God knows we've tried.

Congratulations. A new low.

Nearly everyone in ancient Egypt exhorted the gods to let the Pharaoh live 'forever. These collective prayers failed. Their failure constitutes data.

Columbus therefore cheated on his calculations, as the examining faculty of the University of Salamanca quite correctly pointed out. He used the smallest possible circumference of the Earth and the greatest eastward extension of Asia he could find in all the books available to him, and then exaggerated even those. Had the Americas not been in the way, Columbus' expeditions would have failed utterly.

Attribute the declining life expectancy in the former Soviet Union to the failures of communism many years ago, but never attribute the high infant mortality rate in the United States (now highest of the major industrial nations) to the failures of capitalism.

As the pioneering physicist Benjamin Franklin put it, "In going on with these experiments, how many pretty systems do we build, which we soon find ourselves obliged to destroy?

The gears of poverty, ignorance, hopelessness, and low self-esteem mesh to create a kind of perpetual failure machine that grinds down dreams from generation to generation. We all bear the cost of keeping it running. Illiteracy is its linchpin.

Why didn't it happen between us? Why did I fail? Why did you come close enough...and not closer?

Nothing is lost that we do not first see as lost, High Lord. Believe it saved, and it may be. Visions born of fear give birth to our failing. Visions born of hope give birth to our success.

It was not so much a sense of failure that he had experienced as a sense of his own limitations. You cannot do everything you might wish that you could do.

When a massive failure to preserve the integrity of an ecosystem occured, no one escaped the consequences.