Quotes About Failure

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

Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary, it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people cruel and bitter.

Perseverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth.

Entrepreneurs average 3.8 failures before 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.

There's such a thin line between winning and losing.

Most ball games are lost, not won.

Achievement: The death of an endeavor, and the birth of disgust.

God may allow His servant to succeed when He has disciplined him to a point where he does not need to succeed to be happy. The man who is elated by success and is cast down by failure is still a carnal man. At best his fruit will have a worm in it.

How to succeed: try hard enough. How to fail: Try too hard.

When there is no feeling of accomplishment, children fail to develop properly and old people rapidly decline.

Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

The haves and the have-nots can often be traced back to the dids and the did-nots.

This guy put the suck in success.

I have no expectation of making a hit every time I come to bat.

Thought is born of failure.

Imposing limitations on yourself is cowardly because it protects you from having to try, and perhaps failing.

Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.

Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can-and surely will at times-fail. Other vulnerabilities, like being embarrassed or risking love, can be terrifying, too. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk.

Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and very fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterward carefully avoid.

Let us not be needlessly bitter: certain failures are sometimes fruitful.

I suppose some editors are failed writers - but so are most writers.

If at first you don't succeed, you'll get a lot of unsolicited advice.

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