Quotes on Failure

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.

Your attitude towards failure determines your altitude after failure.

When you learn to keep fighting in the face of potential failure, it gives you a larger skill set to do what you want to do in life. It gives you vision. But you can't acquire it if you're afraid of keeping score.

Don't worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try.

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.

My father was a man of principle who found his principles confirmed in the unremitting failure which they brought on him.

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.

If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win.

We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.

Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.

Confidence alone does not make peace, but acknowledging rights and confidence do. Failure to recognize these rights creates a sense of injustice; it keeps the embers burning under the ashes.

If your startup is only in the development or idea stage, there is almost no better predictor of failure - I mean, utter failure, scorched-earth bankruptcy - than raising too much money in the first round.

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

Being a pathfinder is to be willing to risk failure and still go on.

There's a silly notion that failure's not an option at NASA. Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.

I know that when you are experiencing failure, it's pretty damn painful. It is easy in retrospect to wax poetic about it. But in the moment, you don't think you will survive, let alone have the time to reflect on how valuable those lessons will be for you in the future.

But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.

I find writing very difficult. It's hard and it hurts sometimes, and it's scary because of the fear of failure and the very unpleasant feeling that you may have reached the limit of your abilities.

Our failure as a society to properly acknowledge and confront the psychological, social, and political effects of white privilege has perpetuated racial inequality and race-based political resentments.

It's difficult because we tend to overrate the pain of failure. We fear it too much. That's research that emerges from psychology. We think it's going to be worse than it really is. And, I think, as we get a bit older, really after we leave school or college, we quickly stop experimenting.