Failure Quotes, Proverbs & Sayings - Page 9



Defeat doesn’t finish a man–quit does. A man is not finished when he’s defeated. He’s finished when he quits.
Richard M. Nixon

Failure is not a crime. The crime is not trying.
Ron Dellums

An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he’s in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.
Charles F. Kettering

We don’t grow unless we take risks. Any successful company is riddled with failures.
James E. Burke

The mystery of life is not solved by success, which is an end in itself, but in failure, in perpetual struggle, in becoming.
Patrick Victor Martindale White

It’s best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.
Anne Baxter

Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes.
Lewis E. Lawes

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.
George Eliot

Failure is an event, never a person; an attitude, not an outcome.
Zig Ziglar

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure.
Norman Vincent Peale

You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them.
Orison Swett Marden

I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.
Michael Jordan

I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
Michael Jordan

A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.
John Burroughs

In order to achieve anything you must be brave enough to fail.
Kirk Douglas

We failed, but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing.
Robert E. Lee

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.
George Burns

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.
Denis Waitley

He’s no failure. He’s not dead yet.
William Lloyd George

Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless.
Thomas A. Edison

Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.
Andrew Grove

You’re on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.
Anonymous

In a world flagrant with the failures of civilization, what is there particularly immortal about our own?
G.K. Chesterton

Only one thing makes a dream impossible: the fear of failure.
Paulo Coelho

The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
B C Forbes

Without failure there is no sweetness in success. There’s no understanding of it.
Glenn Beck

Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it’s all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you’re willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you’re willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you’ve got the potential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.
Joseph Sugarman

Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blossom in time, and bear fruit throughout eternity.
Frances Watkins Harper

Just because you’ve lost doesn’t necessarily mean you’ve failed.
Anonymous

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

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