To Fail Quotes

#1. In order to succeed greatly, you have to be prepared to fail greatly. If you can't do both of them, you've got a problem.

Mike Tyson

#2. People who are afraid to fail, who are afraid to fall from high to low...will always live in the lows.

Internet Marketer, Brian GV

#3. If you're afraid to fail you'll never succeed

NightBits

#4. Writing is finally a series of permissions you give yourself to be expressive in certain ways. To leap. To fly. To fail.

Susan Sontag

#5. I've heard all my life that 'this is impossible, you can't make' it and 'you're going to fail' but I didn't listen to them and I made it.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#6. Never hide behind busy work. It takes just as much energy to fail as it does to succeed.

Og Mandino

#7. I don't think anybody's too big to fail. I think the - I think if what you've got is sort of a large number of institutions who are going to fail, then that ends up affecting the system.

Marc Lasry

#8. To innovate, you must learn to fail well. Learn from your mistakes:

Eric Schmidt

#9. But there's an enormous difference between an audience that's watching you because they can't wait to see what comes next and an audience that's watching you because they're waiting for you to fail.

Jodi Picoult

#10. What we want in students is creativity and a willingness to fail. I always say to students, 'If you've never at some point stayed up all night talking to your new boyfriend about the meaning of life instead of preparing for the test, then you're not really an intellectual.'

Alison Gopnik

#11. We must be willing to fail and to appreciate the truth that often Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived.

M. Scott Peck

#12. It is more of a disgrace to be robbed of what one has than to fail in some new undertaking.

Pericles

#13. As a politician, you have to deal with someone wanting you to fail every day. I think I prefer being in a situation where generally people are rooting for me, and if they aren't rooting for me, they aren't out there to see my downfall. I respect the people who have the stomach for it.

John Legend

#14. If you want to be inventive, you have to be willing to fail.

Jeff Bezos

#15. When people tell me they will give it a try, I say don't bother, you have already decided to fail. It takes more than a try to quit addictions; it takes a commitment. A commitment is a promise that you stick with, no matter what.

Joel Fuhrman

#16. As a tennis player, you have to get used to losing every week. Unless you win the tournament, you always go home as a loser. But you have to take the positive out of a defeat and go back to work. Improve to fail better.

Stanislas Wawrinka

#17. To simply think about the people, as the dominators do, without any self-giving in that thought, to fail to think with the people, is a sure way to cease being revolutionary leaders.

Paulo Freire

#18. Satan, our adversary, wants us to fail. He spreads lies as part of his effort to destroy our belief. He slyly suggests that the doubter, the skeptic, the cynic is sophisticated and intelligent, while those who have faith in God and His miracles are naive, blind, or brainwashed.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#19. The great thing about theater is that you have so much time to prepare, and to fail, before presenting it to the public. In film, the high-wire act seems to be that much farther up, and the net seems to be less there.

Chris Pine

#20. What was interesting was seeing how much of it could work, how much it really would maximize justice, and how it was going to fail. We could learn a lot from that.

Jo Walton

#21. Diets that don't limit carbs, yet require smaller portions and more exercise, are doomed to fail because they keep you hungry and make you store fat.

Grant Petersen

#22. 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

#23. By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

Benjamin Franklin

#24. Middle America believes in fair play, an equal opportunity to succeed or to fail.

Mark McKinnon

#25. Consistently failing is nothing more than an indication that you are progressing. The more we fail the farther we will see. Failure is not an option; it is the only option. A master is a master because he has had the courage to fail and the wisdom to learn from it.

Chris Matakas

#26. That the Jews are connected with God in a special way and that God does not allow that bond to fail is entirely obvious. We wait for the instant in which Israel will say yes to Christ, but we know that it has a special mission in history now ... which is significant for the world.

Pope Benedict XVI

#27. To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare to fail ... failure is his world and the shrink from it desertion

Marcel Proust

#28. While waiting for promised blessings, one should not mark time, for to fail to move forward is to some degree a retrogression. Be anxiously engaged in good causes, including your own development.

Howard W. Hunter

#29. If you are afraid to fail, your successes will be few, common, and unmemorable.

Lorii Myers

#30. If you bet on individuals instead of the people, you are going to fail.

Mohamed ElBaradei

#31. It is not optimism, Daniel Jackson, merely the refusal to fail.

Sonny Whitelaw

#32. The only sure way to fail forever is to give up.

Gena Showalter

#33. Everyone is an entrepreneur. The only skills you need to be an entrepreneur: an ability to fail, an ability to have ideas, to sell those ideas, to execute on those ideas, and to be persistent so even as you fail you learn and move onto the next adventure.

James Altucher

#34. Give me an opportunity to fail," Saiman said. "I promise my corpse won't interrupt your 'I told you so' speech.

Ilona Andrews

#35. There is no disgrace in honest failure; there is disgrace in fearing to fail

Henry Ford

#36. 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

#37. Those who make happiness the chief objective of life are bound to fail, for happiness is a by-product rather than an end in itself.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#38. There is no better education than your own failures, if you've the eyes to see. We must have the courage to fail. It's evidence that we're risking to be our best.

Tim Hansel

#39. 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

#40. Life is filled with tests, one after another, and if you don't recognize them, you are certain to fail the most important ones.

Brian Herbert

#41. When unfailing love comes to fail, It will fail forever.

Auliq Ice

#42. Dont fail to plan,untill you plan to fail

General

#43. beware of expectations. They ruin us. When we expect anything of anyone, we are asking them to fail.

D.L. Bogdan

#44. I have learned to fail. And I have had my say.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

#45. Some things are so worthy that even to fail is glorious.

Jim Magwood

#46. I get stage fright with short stories. For me it feels like standup comedy: kill or die. I'm more confident when I begin a novel because I know I have space to fail.

Sefi Atta

#47. Unless one becomes a womb one never becomes pregnant with god. One cannot conquer god, one can't be aggressive - that is the sure way to fail. One can only surrender and allow god to happen. That's what the quality of being feminine really is. That is the essential core of meditation.

Rajneesh

#48. Basically, if reverse engineering is banned, then a lot of the open source community is doomed to fail.

Jon Johansen

#49. It was a crushing defeat, but it put iron in my backbone and sulphur in my blood. I knew at least what it was to fail. I knew what it was to attempt something big.

Henry Miller

#50. At first you will make headway, but as your limited resources begin to fail, shut out from the markets of Europe as you will be, your cause will begin to wane. If your people will but stop and think, they must see that in the end you will surely fail.

William Tecumseh Sherman

#51. If you think too-big-to-fail banks are not worthy of investment because of their impossible-to-read balance sheets, well then, don't buy them.

Barry Ritholtz

#52. In this world of many consequences, people help people to achieve or to fail, take care of whom to trust.

Auliq Ice

#53. When we enter into any relationship with the premise that we are empty and the other person will fill us in, we are sure to fail. We can only win when we proceed from wholeness.

Alan Cohen

#54. I love shows about creating and cooking. Sometimes they're so extraordinary, you end up setting yourself to fail.

Jewel

#55. To fail to do good is as bad as doing harm.

Plutarch

#56. We don't have the leadership or the understanding of the value of this, and when your political systems and your economic systems start to fail, it's only a cultural understanding that allows you to reconstruct them and to get back to who you are. For some reason, it hasn't dawned on us yet.

Wynton Marsalis

#57. If you're afraid to fail your probably going to.

Elijah Smith

#58. So that went well. Not that I should have expected better. Inebriated middle-of-the-night calls are sort of destined to fail.

Jessica Park

#59. Whether solid rockets are more or less likely to fail than liquid-fuel rockets is debatable. More serious, though, is that when they do fail, it's usually violent and spectacular.

Henry Spencer

#60. We tell stories to live, to love, to prosper and to fail.

Bill Willingham

#61. In the end, I think that people that are not willing to take the risk to fail are not true entrepreneurs.

Yossi Vardi

#62. In Hollywood, marriages are kind of expected to fail.

Gabrielle Union

#63. You know how alchoholics who go to AA are always using that phrase "one day at a time"? They say that because to say "I will never drink again" is just too damn much. It's big an hard and bound to fail.

Cheryl Strayed

#64. Businesses planned for service are apt to succeed businesses planned for profit are apt to fail.

Nicholas Murray Butler

#65. To attempt to write seriously is always, I feel, to fail - the disjunction between my beautifully sonorous, accurate and painfully affecting mental content, and the leaden, halting sentences on the page always seems a dreadful falling short.

Will Self

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

Eraldo Banovac

#67. The monomaniac is unlikely to succeed. Most leave only their bleached bones in the roadless desert. But the rest of us, with our multiple interests instead of a single mission, are certain to fail and have no impact at all.

Peter Drucker

#68. Have the confidence to fail. Persistence is key.

Jessica Walsh

#69. The only thing we are sure to fail is that which we do not attempt

Paul-Emile Victor

#70. When we translate, we always to some extent betray the text we are translating. That is why translation is so hard and thankless. All you can do is to fail in the least egregious way possible.

Jay L. Garfield

#71. There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

Erich Fromm

#72. Better for a man to fail, he said, even to fail greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

Timothy Egan

#73. We are neurotically haunted today by the imminence, and by the ignominy, of failure. We know at how frightening a cost one succeeds: to fail is something too awful to think about.

Louis Kronenberger

#74. Every person is different and has a different contribution to make. No one is destined to fail.

Henry B. Eyring

#75. Mr. Obama still has time to reverse course. A great deal depends on it. To fail on health care yet again might well be the 'Waterloo' Republicans dream of.

Thomas Frank

#76. You cannot negotiate to fail

Ademola Adejumo

#77. Everything about him causes my lungs to fail and my heart to go into overdrive

Colleen Hoover

#78. To apply general tools to specific problems is to fail.

Michael Crichton

#79. In order to achieve anything you must be brave enough to fail.

Kirk Douglas

#80. Fighting for free enterprise means standing up for free markets. The freedom to succeed includes the freedom to fail. We must defend entrepreneurial capitalism against the onslaught of the American Left.

Mike Pence

#81. It is painful to fail. But it is far sadder when a storyteller stops wanting to try.

Orson Scott Card

#82. Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.

Mary Tyler Moore

#83. Confidence - Poise and confidence are not possible unless you have prepared correctly. Failing to prepare is preparing to fail. Poise and confidence are a natural result of proper preparation.

John Wooden

#84. So I shamelessly say, no, I want [Obama] to fail, if his agenda is a far-left collectivism, some people say socialism, as a conservative heartfelt, deeply, why would I want socialism to succeed?

Rush Limbaugh

#85. (Men without ambition are boring)
And that attitude, mistress, is why the females of your kind continue to struggle for equality. And why they continue to fail.

Richelle Mead

#86. We can all learn from our failures. What I've learned is how much it hurts to fail.

Ashleigh Brilliant

#87. Be daring. Better to fail spectacularly then stay safe and achieve meh. -- Anonymous

Sue Ward Drake

#88. We're still under the weight of this impression that the ocean is too big to fail, that the planet is too big to fail.

Sylvia Earle

#89. One of the best ways to get promoted, besides sleeping with the right people, is to fail spectacularly.

Marshall Thornton

#90. Learning to fail is a virtue. Failing to learn is a sin.

Paul Sloane

#91. Acting is really about having the courage to fail in front of people.

Adam Driver

#92. I genuinely have never been in an audience where most people want that person to fail. I've never been in an audience like that, and I've never seen it as a performer. Only in my dreams, in which case they are always throwing tomatoes and going, "This is the most boring thing I've ever seen."

Laurie Anderson

#93. Our country represents nothing but peaceful intentions toward all the earth, but it ought not to fail to maintain such a military force as comports with the dignity and security of a great people.

Calvin Coolidge

#94. Only those who have the courage to fail greatly achieve greatly.

Robert Kennedy

#95. Few people who marry plan for their marriages to fail, but neither do they specifically plan for success.

Myles Munroe

#96. I had become so accustomed to succeeding that I no longer even remembered what it was like to fail.

Oprah Winfrey

#97. He could imagine the college rejection letters now.
'After learning that one kiss and a sleepless night led you to fail a test, we have decided you are no longer a fit for our institution.

Brigid Kemmerer

#98. If you are not trying to participate or win then you are trying to fail.

Debasish Mridha

#99. Let the freedom to fail give you the hope to fight.

John Piper

#100. We must learn to give ourselves permission to blunder, to fail, and to make fools of ourselves every day for the rest of our lives. We do so in any case.

Sheldon B. Kopp