Top 51 Fail Than Succeed Quotes
#1. They'd rather see me fail than succeed,
That's why I'm alone on my own with no team.
Don't need no green, though I got some to spend;
In the end ... all I really need is a friend.
Bishop Nehru
#2. I have the feeling that he would rather see a good cause fail than succeed if he were not the head of it.
Woodrow Wilson
#3. My friends I now leave, not knowing when, or whether ever, I may return, with a task before me greater than that which rested upon Washington. Without the assistance of that Divine Being, who ever attended him, I cannot succeed. With that assistance, I cannot fail.
Abraham Lincoln
#4. To succeed takes more than the desire to win. It also takes the acceptance that we could fail.
Simon Sinek
#5. In this age, in this country, public sentiment is everything. With it, nothing can fail; against it, nothing can succeed. Whoever molds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes, or pronounces judicial decisions.
Abraham Lincoln
#6. 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
#7. I'd rather fail at something important than succeed at something trivial.
Paul Hawken
#8. Sometimes it's better to fail with pride, than to succeed at a price
Benny Bellamacina
#9. To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports us - when we succeed, it betrays us.
Charles Caleb Colton
#10. I feel as if I've been so inured to failure, because I fail more than I succeed. As with any kind of fiction, I throw out so many pages; I get rejected so many times.
Lauren Groff
#11. I would rather fail trying than succeed at doing nothing.
Denis Waitley
#12. 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
#13. I think the most important trait for an entrepreneur is persistence. When you try to do something new and difficult, you are more likely to fail than to succeed.
Trip Adler
#14. I'd rather fail miserably pursuing my dreams than succeed at something I have to settle for
Katie Kacvinsky
#15. I would rather fail in a cause that would ultimately succeed, than succeed in a cause that would ultimately fail.
Woodrow Wilson
#16. Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.
John Maynard Keynes
#17. Fail. But I also believe this: One bold prayer can accomplish more than a thousand well-laid plans. So go ahead and plan, but make sure you circle your plans in prayer. If your plans aren't birthed in prayer and bathed in prayer, they won't succeed.
Mark Batterson
#18. I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.
Robert H. Schuller
#19. I think it's better to be overly ambitious and fail than to be underambitious and succeed in a mundane way. I have been very fortunate. I failed upward in my life!
Francis Ford Coppola
#20. Men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed.
Lloyd Jones
#21. So I became a publisher by mistake - well, not quite by mistake, because I wanted to be an editor but I had to make sure the magazine would survive. The point is this: Most businesses fail, so if you're going to succeed, it has to be about more than making money.
Richard Branson
#22. It is better to fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than to succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.
Peter Marshall
#23. I would rather fail at what I love than succeed at what I hate.
Les Brown
#24. We don't succeed or fail because of fortune or luck. We succeed because we understand the way the world works and what we have to do. We fail because others understand this better than we do.
Viet Thanh Nguyen
#25. I still get rejections - frequently - and my goal isn't to never fail, to never be turned down, but simply to succeed more often than I don't. And in order to do that, I have to constantly put myself out there, to judgment, critique, and rejection.
V.E Schwab
#26. It's much easier, in the long run, to succeed than it is, in the short run, to fail.
Edmund Alexander Sims
#28. A man would rather fail according to his own ideas than succeed according to another's.
Kate Langley Bosher
#29. More times than not, it's a failed endeavor. You will fail more times than you succeed. But I think you need those failed endeavors.
Ben Gibbard
#30. Of course we all have our limits, but how can you possibly find your boundaries unless you explore as far and as wide as you possibly can? I would rather fail in an attempt at something new and uncharted than safely succeed in a repeat of something I have done.
A. E. Hotchner
#31. It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to hold on to beliefs that don't work.
Jerry Gillies
#32. I would rather try to succeed and fail than try to do nothing and succeed.
Og Mandino
#33. I would rather fail as an artist than succeed as anything else.
Robert Dowling
#34. People do not mind people who try things and fail. If you're a good entrepreneur, you're not going to succeed in every single thing you try. You've got to try to succeed at more things than fail.
Richard Branson
#35. The only thing better than succeeding is watching people you know fail.
Nikki Cox
#36. No relationship comes with a guarantee, but I'd rather fail with you than succeed with anyone else.
Linda Morris
#37. Better to fail at doing the right thing than to succeed at doing the wrong thing.
Guy Kawasaki
#38. Actions can let you fail or let you succeed. Either way it will never fail to give you experience which is much more important than success or failure.
Debasish Mridha
#39. When you are success oriented it is much easier to succeed than to fail.
Debasish Mridha
#40. 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
#41. It is better to fail at your own life than to succeed at someone else's.
Andre Gide
#42. Our work is to make ourselves visible in the world. This is the soul's individual journey, and the soul would much rather fail at its own life than succeed at someone else's.
David Whyte
#43. It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
Herman Melville
#44. The job is not to succeed but fail more interesting than the last time - - in a more subtle fashion or in a more intriguing way.
T. J. Jagodowski
#45. Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#46. I'd rather succeed in doing what we can than fail to do what we can't.
Richard Adams
#47. Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
Sophocles
#48. Fight honorably,
win honorably,
and lose honorably.
To fail honorably is better
than to succeed dishonorably.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#49. 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
#50. It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible.
Arthur Machen
#51. I never fail. It's just that the people around me succeed more than I.
Carroll Bryant
