Top 93 Courage Failure Quotes
#1. Until a person has failed significantly or missed the boat, they will not know how to hold the tension until the right moment or how to test the waters before pushing on.
Michael Meade
#2. Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.
Andre Malraux
#3. But I was not good enough. You should understand this about me - I am not a hero; not one to tap unknown reserves of courage; not one to rise to circumstance. I am the understudy who chokes on his lines when he is forced onto the stage. I am never, ever good enough.
Dexter Palmer
#4. Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
Herbert Kaufman
#5. Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.
Winston Churchill
#6. When you are the central character in a seemingly boiling pit of "busy-ness" the time will come when the pace of decline cannot be countered. You build yourself the circumstances of ultimate failure by failing to grow, by failing to act on your learnings.
Tony Curl
#7. False reasons trapped in your old bean. Failure isn't your nemesis, denial of truth is.
Ymatruz
#8. Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm; great good fortune comes to failure in the end. All is change; all yields its place and goes; to persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man. The coward despairs.
Euripides
#9. The place where failure happens is also the place where courage lives.
Robin Sharma
#10. Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself
Charlie Chaplin
#12. Let his sword break and his shield shatter, Sansa thought coldly as she shoved out through the doors, let his courage fail him and every man desert him.
George R R Martin
#13. Character, courage, industry and perseverance are the four pillars on which the whole edifice of human life can be built and failure is a word unknown to me.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
#14. He met failure as one day he would probably meet death, with cynical resentment and the courage of a solitary.
John Le Carre
#15. You have control over doing your respective duty, but no control or claim over the result. Fear of failure, from being emotionally attached to the fruit of work, is the greatest impediment to success because it robs efficiency by constantly disturbing the equanimity of mind.
Ramananda Prasad
#16. In life, things can always go wrong,
So always keep your heart strong,
Carry on, and never give up hope.
Mouloud Benzadi
#17. Cynicism is a form of cowardice, a failure of courage to hope.
Merle Shain
#18. Success and failure come and go, but don't let them define you. It's who you are that matters.
Kamal Ravikant
#19. This world is not for cowards. Do not try to fly. Look not for success or failure. Join yourself to the perfectly unselfish will and work on.
Swami Vivekananda
#20. Success is not final, failure is not fatal. It is the courage to carry on that counts.
Winston Churchill
H.A. Corby
#21. Be calm and strong and patient. Meet failure and disappointment with courage. Rise superior to the trials of life, and never give in to hopelessness or despair. In danger, in adversity, cling to your principles and ideals. Aequanimitas!
William Osler
#22. To fall is not to fail. To fail is to never fall because I never got up in the first place.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#23. Courage creates and makes more wounds, but its good for the brave and not the strong ones without wisdom.
Auliq Ice
#24. I finally found the courage to admit that deep within, my love was as shallow as yours.
Srividya Srinivasan
#25. Life is a fairytale of courage, fear, failure, persistence and triumph.
Debasish Mridha
#26. Real courage is holding on to a still voice in your head that says, 'I must keep going.' It's that voice that says nothing is a failure if it is not final. That voice that says to you, 'Get out of bed. Keep going. I will not quit.'
Cory Booker
#27. The empty spaces of your soul are the ones you search for, pray for and want so desperately to be filled. They are also the spaces that will never be filled, until you are ready to do something you have never done.
Shannon L. Alder
#28. True Excellence requires a worthy dream, a good Idea of how to realize it and the courage to risk failure to achieve it.
William J. Clinton
#30. Problems are the cutting edge that distinguishes between success and failure. Problems ... create our courage and wisdom.
M. Scott Peck
#31. In the words of the great leader, Sir Winston Churchill: "Success is not final. Failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts." Redefining
Russ Harris
#33. Courage is the ability to go from failure to failure with enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill
#34. Given courage and ability and a favorable set of circumstances, there is no greater way to [acquire] influence than to be free of personal ambition.
Lorena A. Hickok
#35. Incorrect assumptions lie at the root of every failure. Have the courage to test your assumptions.
Brian Tracy
#36. If you are anxious about a business deal or worried about your job, you are seeing failure as a possibility. And having seen and felt the end, you have willed the means of realization of the end. It is a shocking truth we should never forget.
Eric Butterworth
#37. To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
W. Somerset Maugham
#38. Whatever actions you take, keep in mind that over the course of life, you will fail far more from timidity, procrastination, and carefulness than you will from just stepping up to the plate and, as we say in Australia, giving it a bloody go!
Margie Warrell
#41. Discouragement is a moral state, a failure of heart; you treat it by taking courage, not Prozac.
David Gelernter
#42. Because not all weakness has to be weakness. Weakness, strength, power, failure - they're just words, and we can define what the words mean if we have the will or the courage.
Michelle Sagara
#44. I'm convinced that the world, more than ever, needs the music only you can make. And if it takes extra courage to keep playing in spite of your loss, many will applaud the effort. And who knows? Others may be inspired to pick up their broken instruments, their broken lives, and begin again.
Steve Goodier
#45. Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.
John Wooden
#46. There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.
Orison Swett Marden
#47. It is the hardest thing of all, the one thing that will show if you have the one true courage. To know that you have failed, that your best efforts have been defeated, to not be able to stand it, to not be able to go on and yet to go on nonetheless.
Silvia Hartmann
#48. Dreams can be turned into reality if one has the courage to try. Failure comes only to those who don't.
Cindy Bauer
#49. There is no such thing as colossal failure. There is only colossal courage to attempt the impossible again and again until it becomes possible.
Toni Sorenson
#50. Courage allows the successful woman to fail - and to learn powerful lessons from the failure - so that in the end, she didn't fail at all.
Maya Angelou
#51. What is courage? Courage is the willingness to risk failure ... There is only one danger I find in life, and that, indeed, is a real one. You may take too many precautions.
Alfred Adler
#52. Moving forward will not be for the faint of heart. But if the next century witnesses failure, let it be because our science is not yet up to the job, not because we don't have the courage to make less random the sometimes most unfair courses of human evolution.
James D. Watson
#53. Jealousy, in spite of the mad frenzy of its most splendid displays, is a vice of weakness; it arises from a mind whose aspirations and desires are inferior to its accomplishments; it is the child of baulked vanity and failure of courage.
Arthur Alfred Lynch
#54. Failure was always an option, because the knowledge that you couldn't win every time gave you the courage to try.
Barbara Claypole White
#55. Courage drown by horses is hard to market, and makes more wounds.
Auliq Ice
#56. Have you ever felt trapped in circumstances, then discovered that the only trap was your own lack of vision, lack of courage, or failure to see that you had better options?
Nick Vujicic
#57. Fear of failure is deceptive.
Don't do it, you'll fail, it says.
Courage is inceptive.
It's where success starts.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#58. Frequent risk-takers have had their fair shares of failures and successes, hence, being confident in reaching their goals, they will usually seem insensitive to whether or not they look foolish or cool to other people.
Criss Jami
#59. In all forms of leadership, whether you are a coach, a CEO, or a parent, there are four words that, when said, can bring out the best in your team, your employees, and your family. I BELIEVE IN YOU. Those four words can mean the difference between a fear of failure and the courage to try.
Mike Krzyzewski
#60. Each mistake teaches you something new about yourself. There is no failure, remember, except in no longer trying. It is the courage to continue that counts.
Chris Bradford
#61. If everything came easy in business everyone would have a business and be millionaires. It takes hard work, consistent effort and courage to keeping fighting the monster of failure.
Delaine Robins
#62. Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times, you don't want to set him down as a failure till he's dead or loses his courage.
George Horace Lorimer
#63. No experience is wasted. It is the stepping stones for a great success.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#64. Scarlett O'Hara did the most courageous thing she had ever been called on to do. She faced up to failure.
Alexandra Ripley
#65. Courage is the difference between success and failure. You must have this attitude, this is the right thing to do.
Choa Kok Sui
#66. Before you were born, and were still too tiny for the human eye to see, you won the race for life from among 250 million competitors. And yet, how fast you have forgotten your strength, when your very existence is proof of your greatness.
Suzy Kassem
#67. A bold attitude is what true leaders use to crash down failure before they venture with their visions!
Israelmore Ayivor
#68. Cowards and courage make for great conflict. Embodied within the statement above is the idea that imperfect heroes are the most satisfying because true courage is facing what you fear, trying even though the odds of failure are great. Internal
Debra Dixon
#69. An entrepreneur is born with the mentality to take risks, though there are several important characteristics: courage, faith in yourself, and above all, even when you fail, to learn from failure and get up and try again.
Sheldon Adelson
#71. Consistently failing is nothing more than an indication that you are progressing. The more we fail the farther we will see. Failure is not an option; it is the only option. A master is a master because he has had the courage to fail and the wisdom to learn from it.
Chris Matakas
#72. I wonder what will happen when you actually enjoy the pains that life gives us sometimes. You'll be above them.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#73. Just because you fail once doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything.
Marilyn Monroe
#74. Employment is the exploitation of the employer's courage, and, the employed's fear of failure.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#75. With self-courage, self-confidence and self-will, you will master the act.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#76. When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realise that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
#77. Victory is not final. Defeat is not failure. It's all about courage.
Winston Churchill
#78. It is easier for one to take risks and to chase his dreams with a mindset that he has nothing to lose. In this lies the immense passion, the great advantage of avoiding a materialistic, pleasure-filled way of life.
Criss Jami
#79. Faithfulness requires the courage to risk everything on Jesus, the willingness to keep growing, and the readiness to risk failure throughout our lives.
Brennan Manning
#80. Different parts of the world have different attitudes to failure. Arguably, it may take more courage to be an entrepreneur in Sydney, or Paris, or London, or Japan, or Singapore ... but an entrepreneur sees the world for what it could be, not what it is.
Guy Kawasaki
#82. Defeat ends when we launch into another battle. Failure has no end: it is a lifetime choice.
Paulo Coelho
#83. Prepare, and be forewarned in time. If thou hast tried and failed, O dauntless fighter, yet lose not courage: fight on, and to the charge return again and yet again ...
Remember, thou that fightest for man's liberation, each failure is success, and each sincere attempt wins its rewards in time.
H. P. Blavatsky
#84. Mastery is a journey, and that the master must have the courage to risk failure.
George Leonard
#85. Any business owner or entrepreneur knows that there is no luck or good fortune about keeping a company up and running. It's nothing but hard work, consistency, determination, courage, staying focused, accepting failure, making changes, and simply keeping on with the grind.
Enaka Yembe
#86. It had indeed been a failure of faith and courage not to wander on through the forest, not to search faithfully for his true mate, not to believe and endure.
Iris Murdoch
#89. It takes faith and the courage to risk failure in order to realize one's destiny. Having had my share of failures throughout my career I know that it is well worth the risk.
Ryan Hall
#90. Failure is not having the courage to try, nothing more an nothing less.
Robin S. Sharma
#91. I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places - uprightness and strength and courage and civil respect and anything that affects the probabilities of failure on the part of those that are closest to me, that concerns me - I find fault.
Branch Rickey
#92. Be Bold. It's just canvas, just paint. If it doesn't work for you, paint over it and start again. Don't be afraid that you are wasting supplies. Every failure teaches something, if only what not to do.
Tiko Kerr
#93. To find the courage to keep writing after constant failure is awesomeness. Winning is eminent.
Sereda Aleta Dailey
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