Quotes on Failure

By honestly acknowledging your past errors, but never damning yourself for them, you can learn to use your past for your own future benefit.

Be bold. If you're going to make an error, make a doozy, and don't be afraid to hit the ball.

The failure of the Russian Socialist Republic will be the defeat of the proletariat of the whole world.

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.

I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.

Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. Our fires are damped, our drafts are checked. We are making use of only a small part of our possible mental and physical resources.

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.

Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.

If we had no faults, we would not derive so much pleasure from noting those of other people.

Tree sitting is a last resort. When you see someone sitting in a tree trying to protect it, you know that every level of our society has failed.

You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you can be satisfied that you've tried. If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk.

Fail, fail again, fail better.

If you cry ''Forward'' you must be sure to make clear the direction in which to go. Don't you see that if you fail to do that and simply call out the word to a monk and a revolutionary, they will go in precisely opposite directions?

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

Failing forward is the ability to get back up after you've been knocked down, learn from your mistake, and move forward in a better direction.

I do not agree with this century's fashion of running down the human species as a failed try, a doomed sport. At our worst, we may be going through the early stages of adolescence, and everyone remembers what that is like.

We are afraid of losing what we have.

The greatest accomplishment is not in never failing, but in rising again after you fall.