Quotes About Fail And Success

#1. One does not fail at a task. One merely does not succeed. And since one is always striving for success, so long as one continues striving, one can never truly fail.

Margaret Weis

#2. When you fail you learn, and when you learn you grow, and when you grow you move closer to success.

Lindsay Adler

#3. So when someone would love to see you fail, forgive them, and draw upon that motivation to succeed.

Donald L. Hicks

#4. The number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors.

Napoleon Hill

#5. The answers to these questions will determine your success or failure. 1) Can people trust me to do what's right? 2) Am I committed to doing my best? 3) Do I care about other people and show it? If the answers to these questions are yes, there is no way you can fail.

Lou Holtz

#6. Unless you are willing to try, fail miserable, and try again, success won't happen.

Phillip Adams

#7. I needn't tell you that success and failure prove nothing - the whole thing is a lottery. It's pleasant to succeed; but for a philosophic mind it oughtn't to be very upsetting to fail.

George Sand

#8. When you fail, you can resist correction or cooperate in your recovery and future success.

David P. Ingerson

#9. If you believe you will succeed, there is always a chance you might. But if you believe that you will fail, then you will always fail. Never allow yourself to lose before you begin.

Jon Skovron

#10. The most self-damaging words in the English language are: try, might, and if. These are words of uncertainty. Will you fail? That is possible. But continue doubting your abilities and you'll never succeed.

Dannika Dark

#11. There are many ways to fail. Some reject success. And others do not recognize it when success comes.

Gene Tierney

#12. 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

#13. Success or failure is not a one day event, but continuous life process. Each day you succeed and each day you fail with life, and most of the time, success follows the failure.

Roshan Sharma

#14. It's my job to lead you to success, and, if you fail, it's because I failed, not you.' (Spoken by Bracke, told by Eric)

Shannon A. Thompson

#15. Everything begins with failing. If you stop to fail, then your failing to stop, to try and try again, and bring success.

Anthony Liccione

#16. I want anyone who believes in life, liberty, pursuit of happiness to succeed. And I want any force, any person, any element of an overarching Big Government that would stop your success, I want that organization, that element or that person to fail. I want you to succeed.

Rush Limbaugh

#17. People who say "it's just business" are lying. It's a deceptive and manipulative tactic used by weak minds. Anyone who has ever run or been in business knows that a business will fail if the relationships are not healthy. Business is the business of relationships. That is all.

Richie Norton

#18. The Americans are so much more positive. They are much more in love with success. In Britain, they're a fairly envious bunch, and they love it if you fail.

John Cleese

#19. There is a very thin line of difference between a Pessimist and a Perfectionist. Both are scared to fail, strive for ideal but the only think unlike in the two is- Pessimist thinks it will last forever and Perfectionist knows it won't.

Jasleen Kaur Gumber

#20. Personal revelation, consecration of performance, attention to detail, and dependency on God-with these qualities you cannot fail.

Ezra Taft Benson

#21. We in the church have humility and contrition to offer the world, not a formula for success. Almost alone in our success-oriented society, we admit that we have failed, are failing, and always will fail.

Philip Yancey

#22. Practice fear and you will fail. Practice love and success will prevail.

Walter E. Jacobson

#23. As investors, we want to believe we are smart, insightful and uniquely talented - even though we often fail to do the heavy lifting, put in the long hours, and make the uncomfortable but necessary decisions to achieve success.

Barry Ritholtz

#24. It means they do things to ensure that they fail so they don't have to deal with the consequences and responsibilities of success.

Matthew Quick

#25. There are some persons who never succeed from being too indolent to undertake anything; and others who regularly fail, because the instant they find success in their power, they grow indifferent, and give over the attempt.

William Hazlitt

#26. The success-haters. That's what I call them
the people who have never got what they want and turned sour on everybody who has. The world's full of them. As soon as you've made good they begin to watch for you to fail.

Zoe Akins

#27. No matter how much success you may experience in life, your eventual story - no offence intended - will be one of failure. Your bodily organs will fail, and you'll die.

Oliver Burkeman

#28. The number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.

Tom Hopkins

#29. We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success.

Bruce Barton

#30. Leaving what feels secure behind and following the beckoning of our hearts doesn't always end as we expect or hope. We may even fail. But here's the payoff: it can also be amazing and wonderful and immensely satisfying.

Steve Goodier

#31. You didn't fail ... You just didn't use the right method. It's neither hail nor storm ... It's just a stir that precedes the settlement of your destiny. Believe that you will not remain on the ground. Wake up and try again!

Israelmore Ayivor

#32. Anger is the agro-chemical that makes the weeds of failure to germinate and compete with your crops of success. Don't apply it.

Israelmore Ayivor

#33. If one is not prepared to fail, there is no way to achieve success in
business and life.

Eraldo Banovac

#34. Everyday that I procrastinate, everyday that I sit stagnant in fear, everyday that I fail to better myself, someone else out there with the same goals and dreams as me is doing the exact opposite.

Noel DeJesus

#35. Unless you're willing to have a go, fail miserably, and have another go, success won't happen.

Phillip Adams

#36. Go out and do your thing knowing that rejection and failure is an inevitable and integral part of the process to achieving your dreams.

Miya Yamanouchi

#37. It's a simple fact that winners fail a lot more often than losers. Failures are very necessary for one's growth and progress. When you quit before you fail, you preclude any sort of success in your life. Fail often. Fail gloriously. And then win.

Munmi Sarma

#38. If you set your goals ridiculously high and its a failure, you will fail above everyone elses success

James Cameron

#39. 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

#40. Such people never focus on their own goal, they always elect to pursue the goal which promises the most rapid success, and yet fail to recognise that this success will never be their own.

Timur Vermes

#41. Thus we find the source of our new multiple murderer primarily among the ambitious who failed - or who believed they would fail - and who seek another form of success in the universal celebrity and attention they will receive through their extravagant homicides.

Elliott Leyton

#42. As counterintuitive as it sounds, 'speed to fail' should be every entrepreneur's motto. Success isn't born wholly-formed like Venus from a clamshell; it's developed through relentless trial and error.

Jay Samit

#43. Care not for time and success. Act out thy part, whether it be to fail or to prosper.

Sri Aurobindo

#44. Always let your subordinates know that the honor will be all theirs if they succeed and the blame will be yours if they fail.

Abraham Lincoln

#45. People fail 2 ways: 1) don't know what to do 2) don't do what they know; therefore, great leaders must educate and inspire.

Orrin Woodward

#46. There's a spectrum of those moments of connection and the moments we fail to connect, going from super-large successes to failures. Success would be love, I guess, and failure could still be love, but the bad side; and loss.

Aimee Bender

#47. When we fail, our pride supports us, and when we succeed it betrays us.

Charles Colton

#48. If you don't want to lose your job, you become conservative, you keep your head down," he told me. "And it's pretty unfortunate, because without the willingness to fail, the possibility for great success is eliminated. [quoted from Mark Roth]

Sanjay Gupta

#49. It's impossible to fail completely and it's impossible to succeed perfectly.

Robert H. Schuller

#50. 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

#51. I don't have concrete plans for the future. I just think of success and keep a successful attitude. Success is 99 percent preparation. If you set yourself up for winning, rarely will you fail.

Peter James

#52. Huh! Mankind always comes up with ideas to make up for the follies of the status quo. But what happens if those ideas are inflexible and fail to respond to the changing times. They end up betraying the people who believed in them.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

#53. Failing is great! Isn't it? I mean, it sets you free and, after all, failures are the pillars of success. So, you must fail!

Abhishek Ratna

#54. It's good to fail now and again - you learn a lot more out of failure than you do out of success.

Ian Hunter

#55. I fail sometimes, I succeed sometimes, so that's fair enough. It's a package deal. It comes with that package: failures and success.

Sachin Tendulkar

#56. The creative man with an insight into human nature, with the artistry to touch and move people, will succeed. Without them he will fail.

William Bernbach

#57. We have some good ideas here. But the only way to know if they're workable is to try to make them fail. If we fail to fail, then maybe we're on the right track.

Orson Scott Card

#58. If we read history with an open mind, we cannot fail to conclude that, among all the military virtues, the energetic conduct of war has always contributed most to glory and success.

Carl Von Clausewitz

#59. Engineering circumstances means you put systems, rituals, rules and/or intentions in place to thwart you in the event you try to procrastinate, delay or even fail to perform the tasks you know would ensure your success.

Honoree Corder

#60. I can not wish you success in your effort to reject the treaty because while it may win the fight it may destroy our cause. My plan cannot fail if the people are with us and we ought not to succeed unless we do have the people with us.

William Jennings Bryan

#61. Never be afraid to try. The only angle through which you can approach success is by the "try-angle". You may fail if you try, but shame unto you if you don't try at all. If you fail ... rise up and try again and again!

Israelmore Ayivor

#62. Indecisiveness is the number one reason for failure. Lack of ability to make a decision in a timely manner causes most people to fail with their projects and plans. Identify this challenge and decide to no longer let it be a setback from your success.

Farshad Asl

#63. What of all the entrepreneurs that fail? Well, many do, particularly the successful ones; often several times. And if you ask them the secret of their success, they'll tell you it's all that they learned in their struggles along the way; yes, it's what they learned from failing.

Ronald Reagan

#64. 90% of Startups fail.
Come in to be the 90% until we shift to rest 10%. ;)

Prerak Trivedi

#65. Fact: From quitting smoking to skiing, we succeed to the degree we try, fail, and learn. Studies show that people who worry about mistakes shut down, but those who are relaxed about doing badly soon learn to do well. Success is built on failure.

Martha Beck

#66. The main reason people fail is they become attached to others who hold them back. Letting go of others and going forward may seem like a lonely and impossible task, but I assure you it is not.

Frederick Lenz

#67. Others letting you down is ice cream and cookies compared with the rejection of your own soul. I don't know what is sadder, expecting myself to fail or being too scared to dream of success.

Alessandra Torre

#68. The pain when you fail is not to convince you to stop, but to be overcome so you can find success there and move on.

A.M. Sawyer

#69. The story of Americans is the story of arrested metamorphoses. Those who achieve success come to a halt and accept themselves as they are. Those who fail become resigned and accept themselves as they are.

Harold Rosenberg

#70. Creatives fail and the really good ones fail often.

Steven Kotler

#71. I think for anyone to become good at something, they have to fail a lot too. And they have to be completely unafraid to fail or they'll never make it to the next level.

Amy Schumer

#72. It is strange the way the ignorant and inexperienced so often and so undeservedly succeed when the informed and the experienced fail. All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

Mark Twain

#73. One never fails until they fail at trying to succeed.

Amit Abraham

#74. The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.

Michael Korda

#75. Far too often, it is at the moment where we finally stand on the very precipice of some great thing that we turn and abandon it, for it is at these seminal moments that fear wins and greatness dies. The beauty of Christmas is that God steps over precipices.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#76. When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important.

Ellen DeGeneres

#77. If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for my family, although I must abandon my life to its success, and undergo many sad perplexities and perhaps never see again my own beloved America.

John James Audubon

#78. Success is a plant that needs to be watered every day. Without water; if you fail to tend to it, it dies. And on that waterless soil, from the withered stalks of abandoned success, almost imperceptibly, the weed of failure is born ...

Mauricio Chaves Mesen

#79. So many are obsessed with success that they fail to realize sleep is the best time of day and the second most important activity we do. In fact, it ranks so closely to the first activity, that many people confuse the terms.

Anthony Marais

#80. As far as I'm concerned, the spiritual life is just like any other endeavor-you can succeed or fail. And when the goal is actual evolution beyond ego in an intersubjective context, success or failure is plain for all to see.

Andrew Cohen

#81. Leaders succeed or fail depending on whether or not they clarify role expectations and keep their promises.

Bob Anderson

#82. How strongly do you believe in what you want to do? How prepared are you live and die for it? You are not likely to succeed when you always doubt your capacity to reach higher heights in your pursuits.

Israelmore Ayivor

#83. Luck is like a lift and hard is like the stairs, lift may fail but stairs will always gets you at the top

Amit Dhiman

#84. It's only lonely at the top if you forget all the people you met along the way and fail to acknowledge their contributions to your success.

Harvey MacKay

#85. Most people fail in leadership b/c they think when they should be working and work when they should be thinking.

Orrin Woodward

#86. Most successful people move from fear to failure; to faith and then to fruitfulness. That's the trend.

Israelmore Ayivor

#87. Fight honorably,
win honorably,
and lose honorably.
To fail honorably is better
than to succeed dishonorably.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#88. FAIL UP. If something doesn't go how you planned it, learn from it, do something differently next time. And, by the way, effort deserves credit. Pat yourself on the back!

Beth Ramsay

#89. There is only one reason that you ever fail at anything ... and that is because you eventually change your mind. That's it! ... anything and everything you have ever decided to do, you have succeeded, or will succeed, at doing.

Victor L. Wooten

#90. People see successes that men have made and somehow they appear to be easy. But that is a world away from the facts. It is failure that is easy. Success is always hard. A man can fail easily; he can succeed only by paying out all that he has and is.

Henry Ford

#91. Nobility most fully resides not in success but in trying to do the right thing ... and that when we fail to do that, or willfully turn away from the challenge, hell follows.

Stephen King

#92. If you plan for failure, then you are expecting to fail. If you plan for success, you'll be successful. Once you start making a 'Plan B', you distract from 'Plan A', and the moment you start believing there are other options, you start settling for less.

A.J. Darkholme

#93. Make an effort to exert yourself-everyday. Don't fail because you never allowed yourself to get started! Don't avoid success because you think the responsibility might be too much-just focus and get going! You'd be surprised at what intelligent effort can produce.

Donald Trump

#94. Never give up your right to be wrong, and be sure to give others that right too.

Tim Fargo

#95. You may lose paradise, but gain heaven when you rise up and repent. The success that comes after a temporal failure is an amazing spectacular!

Israelmore Ayivor

#96. For me, success is when I'm making a contribution and fully engaging all of my talents. In terms of the key quality, it's being willing to continue to believe in yourself even when other people don't, and being able to fail and to come back.

Melissa Harris-Perry

#97. The best predictor of success is a sense of resiliency, grit, capacity to fail and get up. If you're prevented from feeling discomfort of failure, you have no sense of how to handle those things at all.

Julie Lythcott-Haims

#98. 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

#99. Success comes from continuing to strive, fail and learn without losing enthusiasm.

Winston Churchill

#100. To fail at trying is worse than to fail after trying. If we never try, then we never learn.

Lindsey Rietzsch