Failure Quotes, Proverbs & Sayings - Page 19



Losing is a part of winning.
Dick Munro

You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what’s that? Come up with a smiling face, It’s nothing against you to fall down flat/ But to lie there-that’s a disgrace.
E. V. Cooke

Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.
Anthony Robbins

Translation is the art of failure.
Umberto Eco

No matter how vast, how total, the failure of man here on earth, the work of man will be resumed elsewhere. War leaders talk of resuming operations on this front and that, but man’s front embraces the whole universe.
Henry Miller

Honest error is to be pitied, not ridiculed.
Lord Chesterfield

Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men’s blood.
Daniel H. Burnham

Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.
Dan Mckinnon

Most people give up just when they’re about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game, one foot from a winning touchdown.
Ross Perot

Sometimes people call me a success for all the reasons that make me think I’m a failure.
William Hurt

Lack of loyalty is one of the major causes of failure in every walk of life
Napoleon Hill

I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.
John Keats

My downfall raises me to infinite heights.
Napoleon Bonaparte

He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Never say “Fail” again.
Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton

You can’t win them all.
Connie Mack

Anyone seen on a bus after age thirty has been a failure in life.
Duchess Loelia

Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over again, and you will grow stronger until you have accomplished a purpose – not the one you began with perhaps, but one you’ll be glad to remember.
Anne Sullivan

The awareness of the ambiguity of one’s highest achievements as well as one’s deepest failures is a definite symptom of maturity.
Paul Tillich

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.
Theodore Roosevelt

Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
Orlando Bloom

Don’t confront me with my failures. I have not forgotten them.
Jackson Browne

You become strong by defying defeat and by turning loss into gain and failure to success.
Napoleon

I really don’t think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don’t mind the failure but I can’t imagine that I’d forgive myself if I didn’t try.
Nikki Giovanni

I don’t think there’s any way it could have failed. We don’t know failure in this band. We didn’t know failure. We got to know it a little after awhile but at that time there was no such word.
Roger Daltrey

I didn’t fear failure. I expected failure.
Amy Tan

No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.
Greil Marcus

There is no use in your walking five miles to fish when you can depend on being just as unsuccessful near home.
Mark Twain

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

When you are falling from a mountain, you may as well attempt to fly.
Babylon 5

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