Top 82 Quotes About Failure And Not Trying
#1. I can afford to take a risk in my life. Only the insecure cannot afford to risk failure. The secure can be honest about themselves. They can admit failure. They are able to seek help and try again. They can change
John C. Maxwell
#2. It is so important for me to try, and having tried I look back on failure and success as if it were all the same.
Tom T. Hall
#3. 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
#5. The greatest failure in life is to stop trying.
Napoleon Hill
#6. Be greedy for social change, and your life will be endlessly enriched. The only failure lies in not trying, or giving up.
Ann Cotton
#8. Failure, to me, is not having the desire to try. Having the desire to try is in it own way success.
Bobby Knight
#9. The biggest problem in my life is trying to be the kind of man that I want to be, the father that I want to be, and how to process the failure of my marriage.
Ethan Hawke
#10. The living are always trying to find the shortcuts to happiness in life. But look what happens when someone achieves premature success: they bloom too early and spend the rest of their lives dying....Success without struggle warps a person.
Susan Wells Bennett
#11. Do not contemplate what lies beyond failure while you are still trying to succeed.
Salman Rushdie
#12. One never fails until they fail at trying to succeed.
Amit Abraham
#15. I realize that a writer's business is setting fire to Piggy Sneed-and trying to save him-again and again; forever.
John Irving
#16. I try to have no plans the failure of which would greatly annoy me. Half the unhappiness in the world is due to the failure of plans which were never reasonable, and often impossible.
E.W. Howe
#17. Creatives fail and the really good ones fail often.
Steven Kotler
#18. I don't think something is a failure if you put your all into it. I'm a big fan of the saying, "Nothing beats a failure but a try."
Regina King
#19. We will all fail in life, but nobody has to be a failure. Failing at a thing doesn't make you a failure. You are only a failure when you quit trying.
Joyce Meyer
#20. There are many roads to success, but only one sure road to failure; and that is to try to please everyone else.
Benjamin Franklin
#21. When failure imprisons you for not doing what you should have done, you have no option than to bail yourself on the promise of trying again! Try again!
Israelmore Ayivor
#22. Fear is an enemy to fight and defeat and not an enemy to fear. Fear of falling, fear of the unknown, fear of making mistakes, fear of trying new ideas, fear of failure or fear of those already there."
~ Ikechukwu Joseph
Ikechukwu Joseph
#23. I don't buy into the word "failure." I used to but not anymore. Trying not to fail is the opposite of art.
Robert Piper
#24. You must ask for God's help. After each failure, ask forgiveness, pick yourself up, and try again.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#25. The first step to failure is trying.
Me
#26. The tiny cost of failure ... is dwarfed by the huge cost of not trying.
Seth Godin
#27. In painting I try to make some logic out of the world that has been given to me in chaos. I have a very pretentious idea that I want to make life, I want to make sense out of it. The fact that I am doomed to failure - that doesn't deter me in the least.
Grace Hartigan
#28. Don't squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar
Oscar Wilde
#29. Failure to me became not trying versus not succeeding
Sara Blakely
#30. I'd rather be a success as a fish than a failure as a fish trying to be a bird.
Eva Le Gallienne
#31. My husband once said he'd never met anybody who walked so fast and ran so slowly. As I said, it's a little hard for me to try new things, and this was me facing a fear that I'd had my whole life. Since I had no experience running, I felt like a failure before I'd even begun.
Jamie Lee Curtis
#32. Pessimism is an excuse for not trying and a guarantee to a personal failure.
William J. Clinton
#34. Keep trying is success and giving up is failure.
Girdhar Joshi
#36. 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
#38. You can get discouraged many times, but you are not a failure until you begin to blame somebody else and stop trying.
John Burroughs
#39. As long as you try your best, you are never a failure. That is, unless you blame others.
John Wooden
#40. Anyone who doesn't make mistakes isn't trying hard enough.
Wess Roberts
#41. Failure isn't something to be embarassed about; it's just proof that you're pushing your limits, trying new things, daring to innovate.
Gavin Newsom
#43. Failure is nothing but success trying to be born in a bigger way. Most seeming failures are just installments toward victory!
Catherine Ponder
#44. I'm not an artist, and I want to take risks, and when the possibility of failure occurs, it's because the idea is all exciting or interesting as a high wire act, and sometimes you've got to fall off, just by virtue of the fact that you're constantly trying to evolve and do new things.
Peter Morgan
#46. Cinderella Rule #16
Standards. Goals. Everyone has them. Or should. But before you judge yourself a success or failure, make certain the standards you're applying are your own. And that the goals you're trying to achieve aren't being pursued for the wrong reasons.
Donna Kauffman
#49. To develop working ideas efficiently, I try to fail as fast as I can.
Richard P. Feynman
#50. We can not paint that in a more positive way if it is already negative, we have to take it that way and think of other means for reaching there.
Auliq Ice
#51. I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
Bill Cosby
#52. Failure is not an option. Failure is necessary ... We try. We fail. We learn. We adjust.
Craig Groeschel
#53. If your child has a weakness, teach them how to turn it into a strength! The only Failure is not trying.
Kevin Heath
#54. I overcome failure by doing it again and trying not to make the same mistake.
Guy Burnet
#55. I'm trying to tell people that I am happy the way I am. But why do people have to call my happiness a failure?
Kim Ung-yong
#56. I don't believe in failure. I believe every setback is an opportunity to learn, regroup, get stronger, and try again.
Roselyn Sanchez
#57. If you ever want to get a sense of your own personal failure, look at yourself trying to get across a point that nobody is listening to and the situation gets worse and worse.
Robert Reich
#58. Remember, the greatest failure is not to try.
Debbi Fields
#59. I know fear is an obstacle for some people, but it is an illusion to me ... Failure always made me try harder next time.
Michael Jordan
#61. When you recognize that failing doesn't make you a failure, you give yourself permission to try all sorts of things.
Lauren Fleshman
#62. To fail at trying is worse than to fail after trying. If we never try, then we never learn.
Lindsey Rietzsch
#63. The only true failure is the failure of not trying.
Tony Clink
#64. No one likes the word "failure" and no one wants to ever experience failure ... but the truth is that our failures pave the way for our eventual success and we have only truly failed if we stop trying.
Sheri Kaye Hoff
#65. The wise man realistically accepts as part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them. He lives on the principle of nothing attempted, nothing gained and is resolved that if he fails he is going to fail while trying to succeed.
Bill Vaughan
#66. It is the "try" that is more often counted for righteousness and not the success or failure.
Edgar Cayce
#67. To give up too easily leads to regret, yet trying and then failing can lead us to second chances if we do not accept it as a failure, but a chance to learn.
Karen White
#68. Keep in mind that our community is not composed of those who are already saints, but of those who are trying to become saints. Therefore let us be extremely patient with each other's faults and failures.
Mother Teresa
#69. Instead of failure being the outcome, failure became not trying. And it forced me at a young age to want to push myself so much further out of my comfort zone.
Sara Blakely
#70. It's good to remember that success may be just beyond the next failure, and you'll get there, not because you're destined to, but because you're determined to.
Steve Goodier
#71. The only failure is not to try, and I've never stopped trying.
Erin Hunter
#72. I've spent most of my life trying to think my way to happiness, and my failure to achieve that goal only proves, in my mind, that I am not a good enough thinker. It never occurred to me that the source of my unhappiness is not flawed thinking but thinking itself.
Eric Weiner
#73. I don't have a fear factor. Well, not much of one. And I'm willing to risk quite a lot - as a comedian, you're always risking a lot. You're risking failure, especially if you're improvising and going on TV shows trying to make comedy out of thin air. That is quite a risky business.
David Walliams
#74. If I'm not playing well, I do get down on myself because I am a perfectionist. [So I need] someone who believes in me more than I believe in me, someone willing to work as hard as I work. I don't understand what no means or what failure means; I only understand what yes means and try again means.
Serena Williams
#75. No mistake or failure is as bad as to stop and not try again.
John Wanamaker
#76. A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.
John Burroughs
#77. Trying again is okay. Trying again and again and again is okay. It's sort of an infinite thing because the alternative is failure, and that's not okay.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#78. I failed the LSAT. Basically, if I had not failed, I'd have been a lawyer and there would be no Spanx. I think failure is nothing more than life's way of nudging you that you are off course. My attitude to failure is not attached to outcome, but in not trying. It is liberating.
Sara Blakely
#79. It's not about failure; it's about trying something and risking something for attaining your goal.
Carol Alt
#80. Disasters are funny to me. As a comedian you learn from failure, so I'm always trying to put myself in a situation that does not seem ideal for my comedy and see how it works.
Anthony Jeselnik
#81. Persevering is not often simply a matter of working hard and refusing to quit; often, by trying again, failing again, and failing better, we inadvertently place ourselves in the way of luck.
Karen Karbo
#82. Have you failed today? If not, you might not be trying hard enough. Failure is a part of growth, a stepping stone towards success. In its own right it is a small victory and should be celebrated as such. So I ask you again, have you failed today?
Shane E. Bryan
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