Quotes about Failure
is too late for that. I shall never be better than I am. I shall sink lower, and be worse.
— Charles Dickens
Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.
— Graham Greene
The United States of America will never be intimidated by thugs and assassins. The killers will fail, and the Iraqi people will live in freedom.
— George W. Bush
Pain that results in success is better than pleasure that results in failure.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
A bird does not give up flying because it failed on its first attempt.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
As a man predicts ill, he becomes inclined to wish it. The pride of having his judgment right hardens his heart, till at last he beholds with satisfaction, or sees with disappointment, the accomplishment or failure of his predictions.
— Thomas Paine
You can be discouraged by failure--or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success. On the far side.
— Thomas Watson Sr.
The Obamacare roll-out was an epic failure.
— Jesse Lee Peterson
Winston Churchill expresses it well. He says, "Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.
— Norman Vincent Peale
Courage can be many things, but the secret of courage is simply and honestly to admit your feelings of failure. And then with God's help go on and do your job in spite of them.
— Norman Vincent Peale
Welcome every morning with a smile. Look on the new day as another special gift from your Creator, another golden opportunity to complete what you were unable to finish yesterday. Be a self-starter. Let your first hour set the theme of success and positive action that is certain to echo through your entire day. Today will never happen again. Don't waste it with a false start or no start at all. You were not born to fail.
— Og Mandino
I will not allow yesterday's success to lull me into today's complacency, for this is the great foundation of failure.
— Og Mandino