Quotes on Failure

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.

Failing is an event, not a person. Yesterday ended last night.

If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.

We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure.

Commit yourself to a dream. Nobody who tries to do something great, but fails, is a total failure. Why? Because he can always be assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle; he defeated the battle of not trying.

Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself.

Concern yourself not with what you tried _x000D_ and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.

Consult not your fears but your hopes _x000D_ and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential.

When you reach an obstacle, turn it into an opportunity. You have the choice. You can overcome and be a winner, or you can allow it to overcome you and be a loser. The choice is yours and yours alone. Refuse to throw in the towel. Go that extra mile that failures refuse to travel. It is far better to be exhausted from success than to be rested from failure.

The very nature of finance is that it cannot be profitable unless it is significantly leveraged... and as long as there is debt, there can be failure and contagion.

It does not matter what you know about anything if you cannot communicate to your people. In that event, you are not even a failure. You're just not there.

I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.

Pride is ugly. It says, 'If you succeed, I am a failure.'

To be a programmer is to develop a carefully managed relationship with error. There's no getting around it. You either make your accommodations with failure, or the work will become intolerable.

Every book I've written has been a different attempt to understand something, and the success or failure of the previous one is irrelevant. I write the book I want.

I felt a failure because I couldn't sustain myself from what I earned from my writing. My day jobs were what mattered, and it was hard to even get those because universities wouldn't hire me as a real writer.

Failure is never fatal. But failure to change can and might be.

Society is notoriously stupid in its failure to harness the wisdom of older women in everything from television to politics, family life to boardrooms, and here is one reminiscing with honesty and realism about women's particular challenge: to create our professional and financial structures in the same period as our peak fertility.