Failure Quotes

4758 quotes by 2649 authors

How hard a thing is life to the lowly and yet how human and real is it? And all this life and love and strife… — W. E. B. Du Bois
As an entrepreneur, you have to be OK with failure. If you're not failing, you're likely not pushing yourself hard enough. — Alexa Von Tobel
The chance of failure is almost always better than the guarantee of never knowing. — Aaron Levie
The marvelous thing about lack of planning is that failure comes as a complete and utter surprise. — Peter Green
Seven national crimes: 1. I don't think. 2. I don't know. 3. I don't care. 4. I am too busy. 5. I leave well enough… — William J. H. Boetcker
Discouragement is of all ages: In youth it is a presentiment, in old age a remembrance. — Honore de Balzac
Whoever admits that he is too busy to improve his methods, has acknowledged himself to be at the end of his rope. And that is… — J. Ogden Armour
On the New England Patriots losing the Super Bowl after going 18-0: We set high expectations, now we go down as 18-1, and that is… — Unknown Author
Giving up is the ultimate tragedy. — Unknown Author
Formula for failure: Try to please everybody. — Herbert Bayard Swope
Time after time ... today's crisis shrinks to next week's footnote to a newly headline disaster. — Hal Borland
There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object. — John Keats
Whatever we succeed in doing is a transformation of something we have failed to do. Thus, when we fail, it is only because we have… — Paul Valery
On golfer Rory McIlroy's collapse in the final round of the 2011 Masters: We had hoped to compare the young Northern Irishman to the great… — Unknown Author
He's no failure. He's not dead yet. — W L George
The same disappointments in life will chasten and refine one man's spirit, embitter another's. — William Matthews
Nothing resembles pride so much as discouragement. — Henri Frederic Amiel
To be developed as a leader, failure must be allowed. Failure only helps us improve. — Bill Hybels
All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and… — Enoch Powell
The hippy movement was a failure. — Joe Strummer

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