Quotes About Failure

Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn't have to be like this.

Being brave means knowing that when you fail, you don't fail forever.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

It's so freeing, it's beautiful in a way, to have a great failure, there's nowhere to go but up.

If you want to succeed, double your failure rate.

I finally concluded that all failure was from a wobbling will rather than a wobbling wheel.

If you know you are going to fail, then fail gloriously.

The measure of a man's character is not determined by how he handles his wins, but how he handles his failures.

A genius is one who can do anything except make a living.

99% of failures come from people who make excuses.

There are many really stupid ideas that wind up being brilliant, if you can implement them.

There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.

Second place is just the first place loser.

Show me someone content with mediocrity and I'll show you someone destined for failure.

I make more mistakes than anyone else I know, and sooner or later, I patent most of them.

Failure is not about insecurity. It's about lack of execution.

We all have to decide how we are going to fail, by not going far enough or by going too far.

When you're screwing up and nobody says anything to you anymore, that means they've given up on you.

Show me a gracious loser and I'll show you a failure.

I believe that one of the characteristics of the human race, possibly the one that is primarily responsible for its course of evolution, is that it has grown by creatively responding to failure.

Courage allows the successful woman to fail - and to learn powerful lessons from the failure - so that in the end, she didn't fail at all.

All my successes have been built on my failures.

It doesn't matter if I failed. At least I passed the concept on to others. Even if I don't succeed, someone will succeed.

Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.