684 private quotes tagged failure

“Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.”— Jim Rohn

“Losing is no disgrace if you've given your best.”— Jim Palmer

“You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.”— Zig Ziglar

“Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.”— Jim Rohn

“I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.”— Anne Baxter

“Before you can win a game, you have to not lose it.”— Chuck Noll

“Remember that failure is an event, not a person.”— Zig Ziglar

“Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.”— Charlie Chaplin

“Tragedy in life normally comes with betrayal and compromise, and trading on your integrity and not having dignity in life. That's really where failure comes.”— Tom Cochrane

“At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings.”— Hector Berlioz

“Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach.”— Roger von Oech

“Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.”— Sivananda

“The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures.”— Humphry Davy

“There's always failure. And there's always disappointment. And there's always loss. But the secret is learning from the loss, and realizing that none of those holes are vacuums.”— Michael J. Fox

“The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.”— Lyndon B. Johnson

“Failure is a word that I simply don't accept.”— John H. Johnson

“Among all the tests President Obama faced in his first term, his biggest failure was climate change.”— Jeff Goodell

“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

“I have probably purchased fifty 'hot tips' in my career, maybe even more. When I put them all together, I know I am a net loser.”— Charles M. Schwab

“A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.”— John Burroughs

“Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.”— Florence Scovel Shinn

“The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.”— Francis Picabia

“There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.”— Kin Hubbard

“We may be personally defeated, but our principles never!”— William Lloyd Garrison

“If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.”— Zig Ziglar