Quotes About Failure

Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.

Wisdom is not gained by knowing what is right. Wisdom is gained by practicing what is right, and noticing what happens when that practice succeeds and when it fails.

It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.

In love, there is no distinction between success and failure. If love remains then even separation is union otherwise even union is separation.

If you try you may fail, if you don't try you're guaranteed to fail.

We learn from failure, not from success!

Success is not about who never fails. It is about who can spring - or even stagger - back up.

There must be some wisdom in the folk saying: Its the strong swimmers who drown.

There is a lot of difference between failure and defeat. Failure is when you are defeated and neither learn nor contribute anything.

You will make some mistakes but, if you learn from those mistakes, those mistakes will become wisdom and wisdom is essential to becoming wealthy.

But in its final creation it was not the part of the Father's power to fail as though exhausted. It was not the part of His wisdom to waver in a needful matter through poverty of counsel.

Let men be wise by instinct if they can, but when this fails be wise by good advice.

Failures give us wisdom. Your failures are just as valuable and rich with blessings. But you must be willing to contemplate them, ask what lesson they have for you, and apply it the next time around.

A program whose basic thesis is, not that the system of free enterprise for profit has failed in this generation, but that it has not yet been tried!

We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

You will profit by the failure, and will avoid it another time. I have done a similar thing myself, in construction, often. Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn.

Winning provides happiness. Losing provides wisdom.

Is it not better to fail after asking advice than to risk acting on our own?

Nor is he the wisest man who never proved himself a fool.

If you don't succeed, you run the risk of failure.

Often people enter into things they have not the means to accomplish, with the result that they cheat others to attain their own ends. Then there is in all things the time factor to be taken into consideration; what at one time might be a failure, would perhaps at another time be a very great success. The

Take risks in your life. If you succeed, you can lead, if you fail, you can guide.

If you squander your time on the tricks of the trade, On discovering just how a shortcut is made, You've neglected the work and your skills are but frail. If you fail to prepare, you're preparing to fail.

Self-discipline without talent can often achieve astounding results, whereas talent without self-discipline inevitably dooms itself to failure.