Quotes About Failure

Success without a successor is ultimately failure.

The price of success is failure.

Las personas se están preparando para el éxito cuando deberían estarse preparando para el fracaso. Fracasar es mucho más común que triunfar; la pobreza está más generalizada que la riqueza; y la desilusión es más normal que los logros.

Playwright George Bernard Shaw asserted, "A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

We are all failures—at least, all the best of us are. —J. M. BARRIE W

The best way to develop rational, well-balanced confidence is to go after a few victories immediately following a failure.

What is the greatest lesson you have learned? By asking this question I seek their wisdom. What are you learning now? This question allows me to benefit from their passion. How has failure shaped your life? This question gives insight into their attitude.

Failure is inevitable; learning is optional

The only person who avoids failure altogether is the person who never leaves her driveway. So the real issue is not whether you're going to fail. It's whether you're going to fail successfully (profiting from your failure).

Most people don't know this, but it's easier to go from failure to success than from excuses to success.

If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, then we did it. If anything goes real good, they did it." That's

El éxito puede conseguir distorsionar nuestra visión de la realidad. Puede hacernos creer que somos mejores de lo que realmente somos. Puede seducirnos a creer que no hay mucho más que aprender. Puede convencernos de que ya no deberíamos esperar afrontar y vencer el fracaso. Estos conceptos son peligrosos para cualquiera que quiera seguir mejorando.

Life means risk. People who sabotage themselves shouldn't worry about failure as much as they should be concerned about the chances they miss when they don't even try. Speech writer Charles Parnell observed, "Too many people are having what might be called 'near-life experiences.' They go through life bunting, so afraid of failure that they never try to win the big prizes, never knowing the thrill of hitting a home run or even taking a swing at one.

People who haven't overcome major losses are prone to think they are invincible. They start to believe they are better than they really are and are inclined to misuse their power. Everyone who makes a major contribution to life knows what it is to have failures.

Get a new definition of failure. Regard it as the price you pay for progress. If you can do that, you will put yourself in a much better position to fail forward.

If you really want to achieve your dreams—I mean really achieve them, not just daydream or talk about them—you've got to get out there and fail. Fail early, fail often, but always fail forward. Turn your mistakes into stepping-stones for success.

Contrary to popular belief, I consider failure a necessity in business. If you're not failing at least five times a day, you're probably not doing enough. The more you do, the more you fail. The more you fail, the more you learn. The more you learn, the better you get. The operative word here is learn. If you repeat the same mistake two or three times, you are not learning from it. You must learn from your own mistakes and from the mistakes of others before you.4

Es más fácil avanzar del fracaso al éxito que de las excusas al éxito!

When achievers fail, they see it as a momentary event, not a lifelong epidemic. It's not personal. If you want to succeed, don't let any single incident color your view of yourself.

The only thing worse than not having a way to capture great ideas, and thus missing them, is capturing a bad idea and trying to make it work.

Even the most noble endeavors fail with immoral leadership.

Elbert Hubbard said that the greatest mistake a person can make is to be afraid of making one. It

To achieve your dreams, you must embrace adversity and make failure a regular part of your life. If you're not failing, you're probably not really moving forward.

We are all failures—at least, all the best of us are. —J. M. BARRIE