Quotes About Failure

Entrepreneurs average 3.8 failures before a final success. What sets the successful ones apart is their amazing persistence. There are a lot of people out there with good and marketable ideas, but pure entrepreneurial types almost never accept defeat.

Giving up is the ultimate tragedy.

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Like ships, men flounder time and time again.

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.

You can't make souffle rise twice.

The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only reality.

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection.

At times failure is very necessary for the artist. It reminds him that failure is not the ultimate disaster. And this reminder liberates him from the mean fussing of perfectionism.

When everything has to be right, something isn't.

Perfectionism is slow death.

All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure.

To be ambitious for wealth, and yet always expecting to be poor; to be always doubting your ability to get what you long for, is like trying to reach east by travelling west. There is no philosophy which will help a man to succeed when he is always doubting his ability to do so, and thus attracting failure. No matter how hard you work for success, if your thought is saturated with the fear of failure, it will kill your efforts, neutralize your endeavors and make success impossible.

There are two main pitfalls on the road to mastery of the art of prayer. If a person gets what he asks for, his humility is in danger. If he fails to get what he asks for, he is apt to lose confidence. Indeed, no matter whether prayer seems to be succeeding or failing, humility and confidence are two virtues which are absolutely essential.

What has always made a hell on earth has been that man has tried to make it his heaven.

Half the unhappiness in the world is due to the failure of plans which were never reasonable, and often impossible.

All of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their fullest extent. ... And every life must be chalked up at least a partial failure when it does not succeed in reaching its inherent destiny.

We may fail of our happiness, strive we ever so bravely; but we are less likely to fail if we measure with judgment our chances and our capabilities.

I'd rather be a failure at something I enjoy than a success at something I hate.

In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.

This nation was built by men who took risks-pioneers who were not afraid of the wilderness, business men who were not afraid of failure, scientists who were not afraid of the truth, thinkers who were not afraid of progress, dreamers who were not afraid of action.

To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall.

To be ambitious for wealth, and yet always expecting to be poor; to be always doubting your ability to get what you long for, is like trying to reach east by traveling west. There is no philosophy which will help man to succeed when he is always doubting his ability to do so, and thus attracting failure. No matter how hard you work for success, if your thought is saturated with the fear of failure, it will kill your efforts, neutralize your endeavors and make success impossible.