Top 100 Fail Better Quotes
#2. The model for tomorrow, and this is the model I've been using with enormous enthusiasm since I started blogging back in 2001, is to try everything. Make mistakes. Surprise ourselves. Try anything else. Fail. Fail better. And succeed in ways we never would have imagined a year or a week ago.
Neil Gaiman
#3. Samuel Beckett wrote, "Fail, fail again. Fail better.
Keith Ferrazzi
#4. When you are free from self-doubt, you fail better. You accept criticism and listen.
Jennifer Lee
#6. For example, one way of giving yourself a strong incentive to reach your goal is to commit to pay money to someone if you fail. Better yet, you can specify that you will have to pay a certain sum to a cause that you detest.
Peter Singer
#7. There are always going to be times when it doesn't flow as much as you were hoping. So of course I'm going to fail. And when I do fail I hope I fail better and better, again and again. I am happy to fail.
Joseph Fiennes
#8. You can only fail better only if you learn from failures. And then failing is something that prompts you to move ahead.
Pearl Zhu
#9. Fail big. Fail better.
Try again. Without looking for a shelter.
Debasish Mridha
#10. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett
Pema Chodron
#11. All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
Samuel Beckett
#13. As a tennis player, you have to get used to losing every week. Unless you win the tournament, you always go home as a loser. But you have to take the positive out of a defeat and go back to work. Improve to fail better.
Stanislas Wawrinka
#15. You won't believe what you can accomplish by attempting the impossible with the courage to repeatedly fail better.
Timothy Ferriss
#18. Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
Samuel Beckett
#19. The world will call you a failure. Listen well, then realize, they are wrong. After that, get up and fail better.
Jennifer Megan Varnadore
#20. Fail Fast: break items into small chunks which allows for more experimentation, leading to more chances for success Fail Forward: learn from what didn't work, but continue toward what will work Fail Better: the best way to increase our amount of learning is to increase our amount of failure
Erik Qualman
#22. There are confirmed stories of people who can break instruments and cause them to fail by walking in a room. I'm the opposite - I can walk into a room and something will work better than it is supposed to.
Robert Moog
#23. When the preacher says it's for better or worse, you're so blinded by the possibility of better you fail to see the reality of worse.
Bette Lee Crosby
#24. I had to watch government fail for 25 years doing consumer reporting before I really saw it because intuitively, the reaction is problem, bring government and government will make it better.
John Stossel
#25. Hope was based on the unknown, and I liked knowing things. Like that I was going to fail. Failure had better odds.
Nami Mun
#26. Better to fail spectacularly than do something mediocre.
Randy Pausch
#27. Put not your trust in new leaders, better systems, new organisations or regulatory reorganisation. They may well be good and necessary, but will to some degree fail.
Justin Welby
#28. If, in a democracy, the cognition of the majority is not much better than the cognition of the sheep, democracy will surely fail.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#29. Second Changes Are not given to make things right, But to prove that we could be better even after we fail
Wendy Prince
#30. He could see the truck in the moonlight at the top of the rise. He looked off to one side of it to see it the better. There was someone standing beside it. Then they were gone. There is no description of a fool, he said, that you fail to satisfy. Now you're goin to die.
Cormac McCarthy
#31. To allow your organization the permission to fail is a very powerful thing. If we want to really be thought leaders and industry leaders, it doesn't come without taking risks. We're not afraid to take those risks that will get us to a better place.
Rick Welts
#32. I have so many things to work on, and so many ways that I fail. But that's what grace is all about. And I constantly wake up every morning trying to get better, trying to improve, trying to walk closer to God.
Tim Tebow
#33. I feel that, as an actor, you're constantly working to become better, which I love, but with painting, I can fail on my own terms. There's a freedom in that, so that's why I love to paint.
J. August Richards
#34. You have no reason to give up if you haven't tried all steps in the world yet! Try again if at first you don't succeed; Try no other option; Just try again with a better approach!
Israelmore Ayivor
#35. Sometimes you can fail in an experiment. But if you fail, you still don't stop observing that thing, looking for a better way.
William Kamkwamba
#36. It was better to try and fail, than to never have the experience
Rebecca Donovan
#37. Do you think it's better to fail at something worthwhile, or to succeed at something meaningless?
Tommy Wallach
#38. Writing non-free software is not an ethically legitimate activity, so if people who do this run into trouble, that's good! All businesses based on non-free software ought to fail, and the sooner the better.
Richard Stallman
#39. The only thing better than succeeding is watching people you know fail.
Nikki Cox
#40. To me, it is better to "guess" at how something works, experiment, fail, guess again, fail, and keep repeating that process over and over again until you either figure it out or you discover a multiplicity of other cool tricks along the way.
Trey Ratcliff
#41. In the long run men only hit what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.
Henry David Thoreau
#42. Better to fail at doing the right thing than to succeed at doing the wrong thing.
Guy Kawasaki
#43. People may come along and argue philosophically that they like one better than another; but we have learned from much experience that all philosophical intuitions about what nature is going to do fail.
Richard P. Feynman
#44. It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.
Sallust
#45. It's Better to Fail at What You Love Than Fail at What You Don't.
Jim Carrey
#46. The most valuable lessons in life do not come when you are walking or running. They come when you fall down. You better take them and rise up!
Israelmore Ayivor
#47. We are leaders. War is what happens when we fail. Or are pushed into failure by the rash and the foolish. Victory is better than defeat, but ... not by much.
Joe Abercrombie
#48. There is nothing to fear, because you cannot fail ... only learn, grow and become better than you've ever been before.
Hal Elrod
#49. I feel that it's important to fail now and again. For instance, if I go for a job and I don't get it, that makes me not a better person, but more balanced, more aware of what life is really like.
Romola Garai
#50. Watching somebody else fail definitely makes you feel better with what you've accomplished and where your standing is in life.
Shiri Appleby
#51. The more you do stuff, the better you get at dealing with how you still fail at it a lot of the time.
John Mulaney
#52. I'm at the depot, and I'm not going anywhere. That's better to deal with than having to deal with the unknown. And the unknown is they don't want to fail. They don't want to pay the price unless there's a guarantee they're going to get there.
Mark Spitz
#53. You will fail, and when you do it's imperative that you not hope for things to get easier, but instead harness a desire for you to be better.
Noel DeJesus
#54. Pursue something so important that even if you fail, the world is better off with you having tried.
Tim O'Reilly
#55. It is better to fail at your own life than to succeed at someone else's.
Andre Gide
#56. It is better to fail with your own vision than to fail with another man's vision.
Johan Cruijff
#57. It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
Herman Melville
#59. Fight honorably,
win honorably,
and lose honorably.
To fail honorably is better
than to succeed dishonorably.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#60. Failure is a reality; we all fail at times, and it's painful when we do. But it's better to fail while striving for something wonderful, challenging, adventurous, and uncertain than to say, I don't want to try because I may not succeed completely.
Jimmy Carter
#61. If heads of states fail to seize the opportunity of our entry into the third millennium to provide for a better government of planet Earth, history will not forgive them - if there is a history.
Robert Muller
#62. Do you know the opportunity you get when you fail? It is starting again - an opportunity to perform better.
Ogwo David Emenike
#63. It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible.
Arthur Machen
#64. For me, this is old. I probably know what is happening better than he does because I've tried over and over to wreck myself on another human, and always failed. I fail now. For it seems that my sorrow is deep in my bones and I'd have to break every single one to let it out.
Louise Erdrich
#66. Sometimes by failing we find a better opportunity to win.
Debasish Mridha
#67. The more you do, the more you fail. The more you fail, the more you learn. The more you learn, the better you get.
John C. Maxwell
#68. But I AM saying don't chase perfection for perfection's sake, or for anyone else's sake at all. If you strive for something, make sure it's for the right reasons. And if you fail, that will be a better lesson for you than any success you'll ever have. Because you learn a lot from screwing up.
Felicia Day
#69. One of the things that drives me is the excitement that I could fail. What better buzz can you get?
Calvin Ayre
#70. Better to dare mighty things and fail than to live in a grey twilight where there is neither victory nor defeat.
Winston Churchill
#71. When did you get so peppy?" she shouted.
"Ever since I assumed I was dead, then I suddenly wasn't."
"Then remind me to try to kill you once in a while," she snapped. "If I succeed, it will make me feel better, and if I fail, it will make you feel better. Everyone wins!
Brandon Sanderson
#72. Do you think it is better to fail at something worthwhile, or succeed at something meaningless
Tommy Wallach
#73. Better to fail at what you love than succeed at what you hate. People have strange ideas about success ... too much to do with money, not enough to do with joy.
Faith Sullivan
#74. A good idea plus capable men cannot fail; it is better than money in the bank.
John Berry
#75. Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.
Oprah Winfrey
#76. If you believe something will make the world better, then it's always worth a try, even if you fail.
Sierra St. James
#77. It's easy for me to work with other girls because I'm a tomboy and I don't want the guy, your boyfriend - I'm not interested in looking better than you, so don't worry. Fail or win, whatever it is, I need to go do stuff.
Michelle Rodriguez
#78. Life is like the wind on the ocean; if it is against you, it doesn't really matter what direction it comes from or what direction it blows. It also doesn't matter what you do or fail to do. So you are better off doing whatever you want.
Dauglas Dauglas
#79. Some folks of cider make a rout
And cider's well enough no doubt
When better liquors fail;
But wine, that's richer, better still,
Ev'n wine itself (deny't who will)
Must yield to nappy ale
John Gay
#80. No human ever became interesting by not failing. The more you fail and recover and improve, the better you are as a person. Ever meet someone who's ALWAYS had EVERYTHING work out for them with ZERO struggle? They usually have the depth of a puddle. Or they don't exist.
Chris Hardwick
#81. But now I knew that true love was above all that and that it would be better to die than to fail to love.
Paulo Coelho
#82. Is it better to be extremely ambitious, or rather modest? Probably the latter is safer; but I hate safety, and would rather fail gloriously than dingily succeed.
Vita Sackville-West
#83. Don't walk headfirst into sin when you know better. But when you fail, as you most surely will, let God use those failures for His glory.
Tony Evans
#84. Nobody wants to be depressed - everybody's trying to feel better; when they strive and fail, it's all the more poignant.
Joel Kinnaman
#85. We do not make changes for the sake of making them, but we never fail to make a change when once it is demonstrated that the new way is better than the old way.
Henry Ford
#86. Sometimes it's better to fail with pride, than to succeed at a price
Benny Bellamacina
#87. Try to do unto others as you would have them do to you, and do not be discouraged if they fail sometimes. It is much better that they should fail than you should.
Charles Dickens
#88. Raising the minimum wage seems to all economists to, at the very least, fail to 'raise' employment, and we'd all like to see better inclusion of low-skilled workers into good-paying jobs.
Edmund Phelps
#89. As the lower parts of the Japanese houses and shops are open both before and behind, I had peeps of these pretty little gardens as I passed along the streets; and wherever I observed one better than the rest I did not fail to pay it a visit.
Robert Fortune
#90. Real invention is a process of repeated, crushing failure that leads, very rarely, to a success. If you want to succeed faster, there's nothing for it but to fail faster and better.
Cory Doctorow
#91. Tomorrow," she said, "we try again. We fail again. We do better.
Gabrielle Zevin
#92. Though I was standing in front of a mirror, I wasn't really seeing my reflection. I was seeing, very clearly, that - at the moment - I was all in the world that Eric could think of as his own. I had better not fail him.
Charlaine Harris
#93. Whatever's merely willful, and not miraculous (be never it so skilful) must wither fail and cease - but better than to grow beauty knows no.
E. E. Cummings
#94. Let's love ourselves, then we can't fail,
To make a better situation.
Tomorrow, our seeds will grow,
All we need is dedication!
Lauryn Hill
#95. I think it's better to attempt something and fail than it is to not even attempt it, so I'm glad that I've been prepared to put myself on the line there.
Ian Thorpe
#96. O this idea that we fail to stop these things because there's not awareness about them, or that we need better early warning information, I'm increasingly skeptical of.
Rebecca Hamilton
#97. Great leaders love to see people grow. The day you are afraid of them being better than you is the day you fail as a leader.
Jack Welch
#98. It is better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed. The result may be the same, but you won't be. We always grow more through defeats than victories.
Soren Kierkegaard
#99. There is no better education than your own failures, if you've the eyes to see. We must have the courage to fail. It's evidence that we're risking to be our best.
Tim Hansel
#100. If Prophets and Messengers are the closest to godliness as any human is capable of being, and yet even they fail, how the fuck can anyone, less than perfect, be so arrogant as to expect they will do better than a Prophet, or Messenger of G-D.
Alejandro C. Estrada
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