Top 81 Accept Failure Quotes
#1. If you accept failure as learning,
it's not discouraging to keep adapting until you find success.
Martin Zwilling
#2. You have to be able to accept failure to get better.
LeBron James
#3. If one cannot accept failure and scorn, how is he to make his art? It's like wanting to go to heaven without dying.
Russell Edson
#4. Leadership is understanding people and involving them to help you do a job. That takes all of the good characteristics, like integrity, dedication of purpose, selflessness, knowledge, skill, implacability, as well as determination not to accept failure.
Arleigh Burke
#5. You accept failure as a possible outcome of some of the experiments. If you don't get failures, you're not pushing hard enough on the objectives.
John Poindexter
#6. You just have to change. To be successful, what you have to do is have an acceptance of risk and you have to be pretty explicit about that, because if you don't accept risk, you don't get any innovation. And that means part of risk is you have to accept failure because not everything works.
Michael Dell
#7. 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.
Rosalynn Carter
#9. Why accept failure when success is free?
Kevin Gates
#10. In my mind, the men and women of NASA are history's modern pioneers. They attempt the impossible, accept failure, and then back to the drawing board while the rest of us stand back and criticize.
Dan Brown
#11. I can accept failure, but I can't accept not trying
Michael Jordan
#12. There was no one with whom to share his world, and there seemed to be nothing he could do about it. In business he could do anything, achieve anything, he refused to accept failure - but he couldn't create a woman, and he couldn't fall in love with one who simply wasn't there.
Quent Cordair
#13. you must learn to accept failure with the same ease as you will normally accept success.
Vasant Kallola
#15. I didn't want to accept failure. Even though sometimes the strength it takes to admit failure is probably worth as much as the determination not to quit. So there you have, I was stuck fighting for a relationship with a boyfriend who, in truth be told, I'd rather forget ever existed.
Caprice Crane
#16. Learning to accept failure on multiple levels is, to my way of thinking, the key to become a world-class therapist. But that means humility, and setting your ego aside, while you develop superb new technical skills.
David D. Burns
#17. I can accept FAILURE,everyone falls at something.but what i can't accept is NOT TRYING.
Micheal Jordan
#18. You can't have any successes unless you can accept failure.
George Cukor
#19. Once you can accept failure, you can have fun and success.
Rickey Henderson
#20. If you find it difficult to accept failure then you simply won't get any innovation because employees will be too frightened
Terry Leahy
#21. I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.
Michael Jordan
#22. A leader should have higher endurance and ability to accept and embrace failure.
Jack Ma
#23. The more failure you can accept, the greater your chance of success.
Chris Matthews
#24. He challenged the world with his genius, and the world defeated him by ignoring the challenge and starving him. He stopped writing because he had failed and because he had no choice but to accept the world's terms: there is no mystery here. This was not insanity, but common sense.
Raymond Weaver
#25. There are two types of pain, the one that breaks you and the one that changes you. In the gym, pain is felt as a result of weakness leaving the body. Physical pain is the glue of transformation and the pain of progress. The more you endure the harder it gets to accept the thought of failure.
Greg Plitt
#27. There is so much uncertainty in cricket. One day you can get a hundred, the next day you can be dismissed for a zero. It makes you become practical about things. Teaches you to accept both success and failure. I think I have learnt a lot about life from cricket.
Mahela Jayawardene
#28. I would walk the way and accept the risks I have counted, rather accepting my failure.
M.F. Moonzajer
#29. The key to accepting responsibility for your life is to accept the fact that your choices, every one of them, are leading you inexorably to either success or failure, however you define those terms.
Neal Boortz
#30. The negative feelings of anger, bitterness, guilt, regret, resentment, and sadness represent a failure of a person to accept that the past is an event that holds no power over the present. The thought that the future will bring salvation is an illusion. We must exist in the present.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#31. Please don't nag yourself with thoughts of failure. Do not set goals far beyond your capacity to achieve. Simply do what you can do, in the best way you know, and the Lord will accept of your effort
Gordon B. Hinckley
#32. Failure is when you accept it, otherwise it's just another obstacle.
Krishna Saagar
#33. I can appect failure, but I cannot accept not trying.
Michael Jordan
#34. Failure is an illusion of the mind we do not accept.
Sam Hawkins
#36. Accept false steps as opportunities to learn. It's one thing to hate failure, it's another to fear it.
Bill Parcells
#37. You are guaranteed failure if you accept it. Victory is almost in your hands if you are willing to die for it. Success is already yours if God has ordained it.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#38. Ken Lay has, does and will continue to accept responsibility for the fall of Enron. He was the man at the controls. But failure is not a crime.
Michael Ramsey
#39. We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes - understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success.
Arianna Huffington
#40. It's a withdrawal of love, coupled with rejection. That combination is hard to accept, and often triggers feelings of not good enough, failure at relationship, insecurity, lack of trust and other feelings.
John Robert Seeley
#41. When I thought about why I was sometimes reluctant to push myself, I realized that it was because I was afraid of failure - but in order to have more success, I needed to be willing to accept more failure.
Gretchen Rubin
#42. Those who hope to avoid all failure and misfortune are trying to live in a fairyland; wise people realistically accept failures as a part of life and build philosophies to meet them and make the best of them.
Wilferd Peterson
#43. You have not failed until you accept your failure.
Udai Yadla
#44. God has provided you with many avenues for obtaining wisdom and averting failure. Resist your inclination to accept advice with easy solutions and to reject help that requires a more difficult path.
Jim George
#45. I think that failure is just as important as success. In a way, failure is a kind of success if you can look at it in the right way, if you can accept it and enjoy it in the right way.
Margaret Cho
#46. In the future, financial firms of any type whose failure would pose a systemic risk must accept especially close regulatory scrutiny of their risk-taking.
Ben Bernanke
#47. Fear and failure are always present. Accept them as part of life and learn how to manage these realities. Be scared, but keep going. Being scared is usually transient. It will pass. If you fail, fix the causes and keep going.
Colin Powell
#48. It's not hard to stand behind one's successes. But to accept responsibility for one's failures ... that is devishly hard!
Vaclav Havel
#49. Your integrity may disgrace your pride at the time you don't think but that doesnt mean you should stop. You'll have to accept and move on with your life in the way it is.
Auliq Ice
#50. I believe it's our responsibility as citizens to get in there and not accept the constant failure of prisons to deal with racism, lack of privilege, and impoverishment - not accept any of that. Just get in there!
Jimmy Santiago Baca
#51. Failure I can accept, what I can not accept is not trying
Michael Jordan
#52. I understand the harsh feelings and sentiments from my opponents and their supporters because I myself have been defeated twice in my political life in the past and I understand very well it is hard to accept your own failure.
Chen Shui-bian
#53. If you want to experience all of the successes and pleasure in life, you have to be willing to accept all the pain and failure that comes with it.
Mat Hoffman
#54. I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it
Reggie Jackson
#55. Failure is enriching. It's also important to accept that you'll make mistakes - it's how you build your expertise. The trick is to learn a positive lesson from all of life's negative moments.
Alain Ducasse
#56. The failure to accept cancer as a systemic disease is one of the greatest failures in modern medicine.
Michael Lam
#57. If you're passionate, be passionate enough to fail. Fail small, accept responsibility, repeat. The people who make change are the survivors of serial failure.
Seth Godin
#58. The most difficult thing a failure can do is accept his identity or status
Nathanael Kanyinga
#59. Change is inevitable, so accept it.
Forgiveness is a gift, so give it.
Love is abundant, so spread it.
Failure is not fatal, do don't fear it.
Life is for living, so live it.
Debasish Mridha
#60. The devil can be a clown of prizes in moments like these. Moments of knowing you've ventured too far down the wrong path and all you can do is accept more prizes ...
J.M. August
#61. If things go wrong, you don't have to accept you made a bum decision.
Dorothy Koomson
#63. Creative people must accept that challenges never cease, failure can't be avoided, and "vision" is often an illusion.
Ed Catmull
#64. Failure is built into creativity ... the creative act involves this element of 'newness' and 'experimentalism,' then one must expect and accept the possibility of failure.
Saul Bass
#65. It is our failure to become our perceived ideal that ultimately defines us and makes us unique. It's not easy, but if you accept your misfortune and handle it right your perceived failure can become a catalyst for profound re-invention.
Conan O'Brien
#66. Failure is not tied to money; it is a mindset. Failure is when we accept the lot we are given.
Simon Sinek
#67. There is no excuse for your failure; accept it and try again.
M.F. Moonzajer
#68. This search for perfection - which is a search for divinity - is nothing more than the failure to accept our existence the way it is.
Bernadette Roberts
#69. If you accept your misfortune and handle it right, your perceived failure can become a catalyst to profound reinvention.
Conan O'Brien
#70. To what extent, in other words, we may ask, is the imagining of God as having expelled the humans a misunderstanding of our own failure to keep commandments and accept infinite responsibility for the other individual, an alternative that, if undertaken, changes everything?
Sandor Goodhart
#71. To give up too easily leads to regret, yet trying and then failing can lead us to second chances if we do not accept it as a failure, but a chance to learn.
Karen White
#72. Those who broadcast your messy failures are the same people who will telecast your mass fortunes. But this can only happen when you accept your responsibility to turn your life around!
Israelmore Ayivor
#73. Other people are not here to fulfill our needs or meet our expectations, nor will they always treat us well. Failure to accept this will generate feelings of anger and resentment. Peace of mind comes with taking people as they are and emphasizing the positive.
A.S.A Harrison
#74. It's not hard to fail ... it's hard to accept you failed ... but once that's out of the way, it's pretty smooth sailing
Josh Stern
#75. To accept grace is to admit failure, a step we are hesitant to take. We opt to impress God with how good we are rather than confessing how great he is.
Max Lucado
#76. I think failure is just a part of life. You can't avoid it in anything. I just accept it as a part of life and something that's going to happen, and you use it to grow. You use it, you learn from it, and you grow from it.
Daniella Alonso
#77. I'm a secular priest ordained by training, experience, and, most important, the willingness to accept the mantle of command. That willingness encompasses the realization that failure is easy, and such failure could kill me or, worse, kill someone else.
Laurence Gonzales
#78. Never beg for mercy. Accept that you have failed. Begging is for dogs and humans.
Paolo Bacigalupi
#79. The inability to accept criticism is the short, well-traveled path to failure and disappointment.
Daniel Blackaby
#80. If you experience chronic difficulties in a particular area of your life, there's a strong chance that the root of the problem is a failure to accept reality as it is.
Steve Pavlina
#81. Failure happened. The trick was to accept the risk and try anyway.
Ilona Andrews
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