Failure Quotes

"When we are saying this cannot be accomplished, this cannot be done, then we are short-changing ourselves. My brain, it cannot process failure. It will not process failure. Because if I have to sit there and face myself and tell myself ‘you are a failure,’" "The topic of leadership is a touchy one. A lot of leaders fail because they don’t have the bravery to touch that nerve or strike that chord. Throughout my years, I haven’t had that fear." "There’s nothing truly to be afraid of, when you think about it, because I’ve failed before, and I woke up the next morning, and I’m okay." "The reason most people fail instead of succeed is they trade what they want most for what they want at the moment." "Only when I fall do I get up again." "If you don’t succeed at first, there’s no need for the F word (Failure). Pick yourself up and try, try again." "I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed." "Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again." "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." "To invent you have to experiment, and if you know in advance that it’s going to work, it’s not an experiment." "Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it." "Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit." "Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure." "Edison failed 10,000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times." "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." "Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat." "It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed." "By 24yrs old, I failed at achieving the biggest dream of my life. My ass was kicked and I was down but not out. I refused to give up, got back up and pushed on." "Don’t be afraid to fail big, to dream big." "Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work."