Overcoming Failure and Failure Quotations
There is no failure, only feedback – Robert Allen
If you’re doing your best, you won’t have any time to worry about failure. – H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Quoted in P.S. I Love You
Failure is an event, never a person. – William D. Brown, Welcome Stress!
The only time you don’t fail is the last time you try anything – and it works. – William Strong
I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. – Thomas Edison
I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. – Bill Cosby
There is no failure except in no longer trying. – Elbert Hubbard
Supposing you have tried and failed again and again. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call “failure” is not the falling down, but the staying down. – Mary Pickford
Try again. Fail again. Fail better. – Samuel Beckett
Failure doesn’t mean you are a failure… it just means you haven’t succeeded yet. – Robert Schuller
One fails forward toward success. – Charles F. Kettering
One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.
- Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
A man may fall many times, but he won’t be a failure until he says that someone pushed him. – Elmer G. Letterman
Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat. – F. Scott Fitzgerald
In a world flagrant with the failures of civilization, what is there particularly immortal about our own? – G.K. Chesterton
They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward. – Thomas Edison
There are defeats more triumphant than victories. – Michel de Montaigne
Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God. – Charles Horton Cooley
Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, “I have failed three times,” and what happens when he says, “I am a failure.” – S.I. Hayakawa
A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience. – Elbert Hubbard
No man is a failure who is enjoying life. – William Feather
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently. – Henry Ford
Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times, you don’t want to set him down as a failure till he’s dead or loses his courage. – George Horace Lorimer
You can’t have any successes unless you can accept failure. – George Cukor
There is no failure. Only feedback. – Robert Allen
Failure changes for the better, success for the worse. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success. – Max Beerbohm
You always pass failure on your way to success. – Mickey Rooney
Nothing fails like success because we don’t learn from it. We learn only from failure. – Kenneth Boudling
Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits. – Robert Louis Stevenson
It is a mistake to suppose that people succeed through success; they often succeed through failures. – Author Unknown
The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed. – Lloyd Jones
When you mess up… even when you make a total and complete mess of everything!… acknowledge the failure as part of life and further proof that you’re human. While failures are seldom cause for a celebration, they aren’t the end of the world either. In time, what seems gigantic now will appear much smaller. Also, remind yourself of the wonderful William D. Brown quote, “Failure is an event, never a person.”
After you’ve gotten to the, “Yep, I must be human after all” point,” realize that you have a choice to make. You can either pitch a tent and make the failure your neighbor for the rest of your life or you can move your camp as far from the failure as possible.
I’m sure you don’t need me to tell you which is the healthier choice.
