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Failure Quotes

117 Total

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The way to succeed is to double your failure rate.

– Sr., T.J.Watson

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with some rain.

– Dolly Parton

The only way to fail, is to quit.

– Curt Schilling’s dad

The only difference between a wise man and a stupid man is the magnitude of their mistakes.

The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.

The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.

The greatest mistake a person can make is to be afraid of making one.

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.

– Chinese Proverb

The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing it exactly right.

– Edward C. Simmons

The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them.

The distance between success and failure can only be measured by one’s desire.

Success isn’t permanent and failure isn’t fatal.

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.

– Conrad Hilton

Success is a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Success and failure. We think of them as opposites, but they’re really not. They’re companions – the hero and the sidekick.

– Lawrence Shames

Success consists simply of getting up one more time than you fall.

– Sign in a football locker room

Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.

– Felicia Hemans

Sometimes I lie awake at night thinking about all the dumb things I do every day… If I live to be eighty, and I do ten dumb things each day… That would be about two hundred and ninety thousand dumb things… When you add up all the dumb things you do it’s best to use round figures.

– Charles Schultz

Should a door slam in your face, open a window.

Silicon Valley is a graveyard. Failure is Silicon Valley’s greatest strength.

Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Persistence is what makes the impossible possible, the possible likely, and the likely definite.

Owning up to failure is not a weakness; it’s a measure of strength.

– John Baldoni

Our efforts to do a better job of living our values will undoubtedly come with flaws. But if we meet those flaws and occasional failures with both persistence and patience, we can unlock the fortunes that exist within our organizations.

– Eric Harvey & Alexander Lucia

Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.

Oh, trouble’s a ton, or a trouble’s an ounce, Or a trouble is what you make it. And it isn’t the fact that you’re hurt that counts, But only how did you take it.

– Edmund Vance Cooke

Of course we all have our limits, but how can you possibly find your boundaries unless you explore as far and as wide as you possibly can? I would rather fail in an attempt at something new and uncharted than safely succeed in a repeat of something I have done.

– A.E. Hotchner

Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, ‘I have failed three times,’ and what happens when he says, ‘I am a failure.’

– S.I. Hayakawa

Nothing breeds inactivity like not knowing what you’re doing.

– Lester Bittle

Not failure, but low aim, is crime.

– James Russell Lowell

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