Top 100 Not Failure Quotes
#1. The opposite of success is not failure. Unsuccessful efforts are not failures unless they so discourage you that you abandon further efforts to achieve your goal. Even then, the venture or effort may be a failure but you are not. Failure is an event not a character trait.
Michael Josephson
#2. It is not failure itself that holds you back; it is the fear of failure that paralyzes you.
Brian Tracy
#4. No" is not failure. Used strategically it's an answer that opens the path forward.
Chris Voss
#5. What we should really fear is not failure but the heart that is no longer brave enough to take risks and embrace challenges
G-Dragon
#6. The tragedy of life is not found in failure but complacency. Not in you doing too much, but doing too little. Not in you living above your means, but below your capacity. It's not failure but aiming too low, that is life's greatest tragedy.
Benjamin E. Mays
#7. Greatest danger is not failure, but be successful and not know why.
James C. Collins
#8. You should try things on, see if they fit you. If they don't, it's not failure. It's a choice. But always let yourself have a choice, let yourself have possibilities.
Kim Culbertson
#9. When something is no longer working, changing your plans is not giving up. It's not failure.
Kylie Scott
#10. Failed relationships do not mean failure. I didn't fail them and they didn't fail me. It's a loss, but not failure!' she
Kavita Kane
#12. Let your words match your actions. Become success conscious not failure conscious in order to make your dreams a reality; have a desire that burns in your soul to accomplish your goals.
Latorria Freeman
#13. People think that the opposite of success is failure, but it's not. Failure is part of the process of success.
Randy Gage
#14. Think on blessings and not curses, beauty not ugliness, health not sickness. Meditate on wealth not poverty, success not failure, grace not disgrace!
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#15. Take care of yourself: When you don't sleep, eat crap, don't exercise, and are living off adrenaline for too long, your performance suffers. Your decisions suffer. Your company suffers. Love those close to you: Failure of your company is not failure in life. Failure in your relationship is.
Evan Williams
#16. Nothing bad is going to happen to us. If we get fired, it's not failure; its a midlife vocational reassessment.
P. J. O'Rourke
#17. You never fail if you know in your heart that you did the best of which you are capable. I did my best. That is all I could do. Are you going to make mistakes? Of course. But it is not failure if you make the full effort.
John Wooden
#18. Failure of your company is not failure in life. Failure in your relationships is.
Evan Williams
#19. Repetition is not failure. Ask the waves, ask the leaves, ask the wind.
Mark Nepo
#20. You know what Lowell says, 'Not failure but low aim is crime.' We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them. With
L.M. Montgomery
#21. Low aim, not failure, is the crime.
Bruce Lee
#22. Victory is not final. Defeat is not failure. It's all about courage.
Winston Churchill
#23. All you have to do is try. And to me, the worst kind of defeat is not failure per se. It's the decision not to try.
Novak Djokovic
#24. I don't believe in failure. It's not failure if you enjoy the process.
Oprah Winfrey
#25. Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.
James Russell Lowell
#28. I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.
Oprah Winfrey
#29. Don't fear failure. - Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.
Bruce Lee
#32. Procrastination and excuses are sour spices that spoil the sweet taste of an effective work. They must hence, not be prompted under desire, partly because they are strictly time-stripping and also because they have no known essence.
Israelmore Ayivor
#33. The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance.
Remember, the greatest failure is to not try. Once you
find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.
Debbi Fields
#34. There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible.
Elliot Richardson
#35. ( ... ) after an early dinner at The Egg and We, a recently inaugurated and not very successful little restaurant which Pnin frequented from sheer sympathy with failure ( ... )
Vladimir Nabokov
#36. If there is one lesson I've learned from failure and success, it's this. I am not the outcome. I am never the result. I am only the effort.
Kamal Ravikant
#37. Failure is an event, it is not a person.
Zig Ziglar
#38. As a people, we have become obsessed with Health. There is something fundamentally, radically unhealthy about all this. We do not seem to be seeking more exuberance in living as much as staving off failure, putting off dying. We have lost all confidence in the human body.
Lewis Thomas
#39. Stress is not necessarily something bad it all depends on how you take it. The stress of exhilarating, creative successful work is beneficial, while that of failure, humiliation or infection is detrimental.
Hans Selye
#40. It wouldn't have been failure to be bankrupt, dishonoured, pilloried, hanged; it was failure not to be anything.
Henry James
#41. We are not the Church in failure, running out the back door while the devil kicks in the front door. We are the Church of Luke 10:19 that has authority over all the power of the enemy.
Harold R. Eberle
#42. Our failure to bag the man-eater up to that date was not due to our having done anything we should not have done, or left undone anything we should have done.It could only be attributed to sheer bad luck.
Jim Corbett
#43. This is deeply disturbing. Congress provided loans to help businesses hurt by the Sept. 11 attacks, not to be used as an accounting gimmick to cover up this administration's failure to provide for small businesses.
John F. Kerry
#44. I make my own surprises and I'm always surprised to see what I do, to see it when it's finished and the biggest challenge is once I finish it, it's not a failure. It's not a flop.
Robert Barry
#45. I am a champion, and my damsel is in distress. Failure is not an option." "But death is," she mumbled under her breath. "Fear not, mate. I will prevail." Famous last words.
Eve Langlais
#46. Gobbledygook may indicate a failure to think clearly, a contempt for one's clients, or more probably a mixture of both. A system that can't or won't communicate is not a safe basis for a democracy.
Michael Shanks
#47. 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
#48. A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.
Arthur Bloch
#49. My story of success and failure is not just about music and being famous. It's about living and loving and trying to find purpose in this crazy world.
Wynonna Judd
#50. Not wanting to give everyone in your life one of your kidneys is not the same thing as hoping they die of kidney failure.
Mallory Ortberg
#51. I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.
George Orwell
#52. I was afraid of being a failure, of not having the best time or of being chicken. But every year I get older I think, What was I fearing last year?' You forget. And then you move on.
Sandra Bullock
#53. 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
#54. Barometer of success in later life is not that they always win, but how they deal with failure. An ability to pick themselves up when they fall, retaining their optimism and sense of self, is a far greater predictor of future success than class position in Year 3.
Helen Fielding
#55. Be greedy for social change, and your life will be endlessly enriched. The only failure lies in not trying, or giving up.
Ann Cotton
#57. In general, the only way to overcome failure is to not let it destroy you. It's that old saying, "Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger." You just have to keep going.
Christopher Gorham
#58. Failure, to me, is not having the desire to try. Having the desire to try is in it own way success.
Bobby Knight
#59. The difference between Success and failure is not giving up.
Steven Redhead
#60. 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
#61. Think positive. Envision your rest as you become more deprived. Envision your success as you endure more failure. Do not fuel despair with false truth. Instead, battle despair with hope.
Peter S. Fogg
#62. To ensure longterm failure is not an option, one must learn from many short-term failures.
Orrin Woodward
#63. Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.
Don Shula
#64. I'm not the first to say that failure, when approached properly, can be an opportunity for growth.
Ed Catmull
#65. The fact that you are free is not your achievement, but rather a failure on our side.
Felix Dzerzhinsky
#66. Do not contemplate what lies beyond failure while you are still trying to succeed.
Salman Rushdie
#67. There can be no failure if there really is a Plan. Defeated you may be, but never through any fault of your own. To bow to a cosmic will is no shame. You are not a coward; you are a martyr.
Umberto Eco
#68. Beside every great success are the seeds of enormous failure. In every failure, there's the opportunity seeds of great success. They're not miles apart. So if they're that close together, and if you're really working, you're always gonna have that likelihood that something's not going to work.
Peter Guber
#69. So when you say who does Christ die for? He died for the church, okay. I don't think God's death on the cross through Christ was a failure, if you are saying that. I do not believe that anybody he intended to die for is failing in that area.
Rick Warren
#70. Victory is not in winning; victory is in defeating failures.
Debasish Mridha
#71. Know that tomorrow will bring clarity where before was only fog. In the final summation, it is not other's expectations that slay us, but our over compensatory reactions in regard
C.B. Smith
#72. New Mexico Governor Gary E. Johnson, a Republican and tri-athlete, has stated publicly that "Our present course is not working. Our War on Drugs is a real failure.
James P. Gray
#73. Failure does not define us, it refines us.
Steve Knox
#74. Tragedy in life normally comes with betrayal and compromise, and trading on your integrity and not having dignity in life. That's really where failure comes.
Tom Cochrane
#75. Our Heavenly Father did not put us on earth to fail but to succeed gloriously.
Richard G. Scott
#76. If you Don't where you going, look back and see where you have come from
Jason Aites
#77. Death represented a failure of the medical system; it would not be permitted to upset the patients or their families.
Caitlin Doughty
#78. The most fundamental liberal failure of the current era: the failure to embrace a moral vision of America based on the transcendent faith that human beings are more than the sum of their material appetites, our country is more than an economic machine, and freedom is not license but responsibility.
Bill Moyers
#80. I have not failed 700 times. I have not failed once. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.
Thomas A. Edison
#81. If you're not a born-again Christian, you're a failure as a human being.
Jerry Falwell
#82. To me, failure is not fatal unless you quit; getting knocked down is not embarrassing unless you allow it to keep you down.
John Ashcroft
#83. In all pursuits men complain of failure when they have not attained the measure of success they proposed to themselves.
Charles Tomlinson
#84. The patent system was established, I believe, to protect the lone inventor. In this it has not succeeded. ... The patent system protects the institutions which favor invention.
Ernst Alexanderson
#85. Success and failure. We think of them as opposites, but they're really not. They're companions - the hero and the sidekick.
Laurence Shames
#86. The church that is man-managed instead of God-governed is doomed to failure. A ministry that is college-trained but not Spirit-filled works no miracles.
Leonard Ravenhill
#87. We will not have failure - only success and new learning.
Queen Victoria
#88. The failure to be perfect does not mean you are not a success; it is giving your best that helps you to understand the joy of receiving.
Fran Tarkenton
#89. Individuals carry their success or failure with them. It does not depend on outside conditions.
Ralph Waldo Trine
#90. Failure is not about insecurity. It's about lack of execution.
Jeffrey Gitomer
#91. failure is not absolute, failure grants experience, experience prevents failure
Adam
#92. All attempts at artificial aviation are not only dangerous to human life, but foredoomed to failure from the engineering standpoint.
Simon Newcomb
#93. A man is great not because he hasn't failed; a man is great because failure hasn't stopped him.
Confucius
#94. Some older or very ill patients may not be suitable candidates for fecal transfer. Colonoscopy is an invasive procedure, especially for those patients who are too ill with other conditions like cancer, heart failure, dialysis, or Alzheimer's.
J. Thomas LaMont
#95. Do not dwell on past failures or it will ruin your future.
Audrey Phillips
#96. Don't take 'no' for an answer, never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. You will make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you cannot hurt the world or events.
Winston Churchill
#97. Failure is a only another chapter in the book of life and not the end!
Timothy Pina
#98. Failure of your first attempt does not mean you can't be a winner of great battles; it rather means, you must trigger only when your target is in focus.
Israelmore Ayivor
#99. I've come to realize that the difference in success or failure is not how you look, how you dress, or how you're educated. It's how you think !
Mac Anderson
#100. On the roads of failure, it is not uncommon to see the tears of the talented; and in the land of success, to hear the victorious screams of the incompetent!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
