Top 80 Success Is Failing Quotes
#2. The Up Side of Down: Why Failing Well Is the Key to Success.
Megan McArdle
#3. I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor. The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal.
Anthony Trollope
#4. Failure is so important. We speak about success all the time. It is the ability to resist failure or use failure that often leads to greater success. I've met people who don't want to try for fear of failing.
J.K. Rowling
#5. If you aren't afraid to fail, then you probably don't care enough about success.
Mark McCormack
#6. I will not fail,' the water bearer's daughter vowed. 'But worse than failing is not to try at all. For then there can be no hope of success.
Cameron Dokey
#7. We have no intention of failing. The only question is how great a success we'll have.
Rupert Murdoch
#8. A social critic is someone whose work revolves around where and how our successes are failing us.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#9. The eternal struggle between failure and fortune is a fight not between mortal enemies but sparring partners. So fortune is improved by failure, and the reverse is also true.
Agona Apell
#10. I am very competitive, so when I fail I use what I learned from that mishap to fuel success.
Tara Lipinski
#11. Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there - or failing to get there.
Max Lerner
#12. Care not for time and success. Act out thy part, whether it be to fail or to prosper.
Sri Aurobindo
#14. Don't cry because you've failed from something,
Try to convince yourself that failing is the one of your delayed success.
Rizky Adam Rifai
#15. The aim is to produce specific results by your actions, so you begin to do things on purpose. If I leave things to chance, I am losing the plot to make success deliberate, meaning I am increasing my chances of failing in any given task.
Archibald Marwizi
#17. I love faltering. I love, in a sense, coming up short. Because you learn nothing from success. You learn so much from failing.
Charlie Trotter
#18. Unless you are willing to try, fail miserable, and try again, success won't happen.
Phillip Adams
#19. Serve others. The failing recipe for happiness and success is to want the good of others.
Desmond Tutu
#20. If you try to be anyone but yourself, you will fail; if you are not true to your own heart, you will fail. Then again, there's no success like failure
Bob Dylan
#21. I wouldn't be where I am now if I didn't fail ... a lot. The good, the bad, it's all part of the success equation.
Mark Cuban
#22. ...Success is built upon failure - usually an endless line of them! Were I to live in fear of failing, then I should never venture to try anything. And if I am to fail, then I would that it be an Epic failure!
C.A. Clark
#23. 'Fail hard, fail fast, fail often. It's the key to success.' This one I learned from experience!
Reshma Saujani
#24. Just because you are struggling does NOT mean you are failing. Every great success requires some kind of struggle to get there.
Nicky Gumbel
#25. Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the civilized world, while a totally voluntary society represents its ultimate success.
Mark Skousen
#26. People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed, and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the tendency is to get on a downward spiral that can even become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Tony Robbins
#27. The surest path to success is to learn to have a healthy relationship with failure. If we aren't failing, then we aren't doing anything interesting.
Kristen Lamb
#28. That propaganda is good which leads to success, and that is bad which fails to achieve the desired result. It is not propaganda's task to be intelligent, its task is to lead to success.
Joseph Goebbels
#29. The joy of success outweighs whatever negativity you might get from failing a couple of times.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#30. There is a huge difference between failing and failure. Failing is trying something that you learn doesn't work. Failure is throwing in the towel and giving up. True success comes from failing repeatedly and as quickly as possible, before your cash or your willpower runs out.
Jay Samit
#31. Those who succeed can't forgive a fellow for being a failure, and those who fail can't forgive him for being a success.
George Horace Lorimer
#32. The essence of man is imperfection. Failure is simply a price we pay to achieve success. If we learn to embrace that new definition of failure, then we are free to start moving ahead - and failing forward.
Norman Cousins
#34. Failure in and of itself is not a bad thing. But failing to learn from it is inexcusable.
Alison Levine
#35. You must not end your life because you failed an examination. Failing an examination or making a mistake does not make you a failure at life. The context of life is broader than that.
Archibald Marwizi
#36. Success is a poor teacher. We learn the most about ourselves when we fail, so don't be afraid of failing. Failing is part of the process of success. You cannot have success without failure.
Robert Kiyosaki
#37. The reason so many people fail to achieve success is because they fail to fail enough times.
Robert Kiyosaki
#38. The more you fail is the more you get closer to success because you lessen your chances of failing by not only confronting wrong paths but also eliminating them from the scenario, thus remaining with the right ones
Nathanael Kanyinga
#39. Failing adds to your experience, Success adds to your self-image. In life everything has its bright sides, you just need to perceive life positively, and focus on what you have instead of complaining on what you can't have
Jeekeshen Chinnappen
#40. We learn the most about ourselves when we fail, so don't be afraid of failing. Failing is part of the process of success. You can't have success without failure.
Robert T. Kiyosaki
#41. Faith causes changes. Anytime there is change, there is opportunity, including the opportunity to fail. But failing can be a step toward completion of a goal. You can fail your way to success.
Paula White
#42. I think failing is the best way to keep you grounded, curious, and humble. Success is dangerous because often you don't understand why you succeeded. You almost always know why you've failed. You have a lot of time to think about it.
Mark Pincus
#43. Success comes from continuing to strive, fail and learn without losing enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill
#45. He will know from and early age that failure is not disgrace. It's just a pitch that you missed, and you'd better get ready for the next one. The next one might be the shot heard round the world. My son and I are Americans, we prepare for glory by failing until we don't.
Craig Ferguson
#46. 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
#47. It's good to fail now and again - you learn a lot more out of failure than you do out of success.
Ian Hunter
#48. Virtually all success depends on trying things that fail.
Rhonda Abrams
#49. The most creative and most periods of my life that were, had the most growth, were the ones where I was perceived to be failing. Perceived success is a, is really hard 'cause it doesn't really, it's not asking you to grow, see failure is asking you to grow.
Ethan Hawke
#50. I don't fear failure because if you don't fail, you would not know the secret of success.
Sonam Kapoor
#52. The greatest reward for a man's failure is not necessarily the consequent success, but what he becomes by it.
Ogwo David Emenike
#53. The greatest success goes to the person who is not afraid to fail in front of even the largest audience.
David Packard
#54. 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
#56. Failure plus failure plus failure equals success. You only fail when you quit.
Jack Hyles
#57. The hardest part about being an entrepreneur is that you'll fail ten times for every success.
Adam Horowitz
#58. Little kids learn to walk by falling. They fall forward and eventually they start catching themselves. All walking is, is controlled falling. It's the same with success. You learn by failing. Success is just controlled failing.
Derek Rydall
#59. You will only fail to learn if you do not learn from failing.
Stella Adler
#60. You are likely to fall when you stop paddling your bicycle. Such is life. As long as you don't give up, you will never end up failing!
Israelmore Ayivor
#61. Creatives fail and the really good ones fail often.
Steven Kotler
#62. Failing doesn't make us a failure. But not trying to do better, to be better, does make us fools.
Wes Moore
#63. There are many ways to fail. Some reject success. And others do not recognize it when success comes.
Gene Tierney
#64. 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
#65. The United Nations is our conscience. If it succeeds it is our success. If it fails it is our failure.
Barbara Hepworth
#66. Everything begins with failing. If you stop to fail, then your failing to stop, to try and try again, and bring success.
Anthony Liccione
#67. Succeeding in business and failing at home is a cop-out. For no success in the workplace will ever make up for failure at home.
Howard G. Hendricks
#68. The one thing that scares me the most is failing. It scares me that one day I won't be at this level. But while I'm here and while I'm having success early, I'm trying to do everything to stay on this level.
Terrell Davis
#70. If you live life so cautiously as to never fail, you end up failing at life itself.
J.S.B. Morse
#71. 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
#72. If you arent focused on success, youre failing.
Ray Torres
#73. 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
#74. 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
#75. Build wealth as a by product of your business success. If wealth is your only objective in business, you will probably fail.
J. Paul Getty
#76. I can not do everything, but I can do something. I must not fail to do the something that I can do.
Helen Keller
#77. Nothing is lost that we do not first see as lost. Visions born of fear give birth to our failing.
Visions born of hope give birth to our success.
What is possible lives within us, and it only remains for us to discover it.
Terry Brooks
#78. Failure is an absolute prerequisite for success. You learn to succeed by failing.
Brian Tracy
#79. Never give up your right to be wrong, and be sure to give others that right too.
Tim Fargo
#80. Failing well - that is, staying calm through adversity and recognizing what can be learned from mistakes - is a foundation of success in a variety of fields.
Todd Rose
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