Failure Quotes

"It is not enough to teach our young people to be successful. So are the mafia and drug cartels. We must teach our children that there is no shame in failing; there is only shame in failing to try" "By failing to prepare you are preparing to fail" "Don't take rest after your first victory because if you fail in second, more lips are waiting to say that your first victory was just luck." "Victory has a thousand fathers but defeat is an orphan" "I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying." "Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable." "Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure." "If you’re afraid to fail, then you’re probably going to fail." "If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward." "I don’t want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about." "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." "You can't win unless you learn how to lose." "It is no fun to fail, but you must pick yourself you and get back in the race. The only way you can grow is to challenge yourself beyond your present circumstances." "Once you know what failure feels like, determination chases success." "When you think about the things that you will regret when you’re 80, they’re almost always the things that you did not do. They’re acts of omission. Very rarely are you going to regret something that you did that failed and didn’t work or whatever." "As a company grows, everything needs to scale, including the size of your failed experiments. If the size of your failures isn’t growing, you’re not going to be inventing at a size that can actually move the needle. Amazon will be experimenting at the righ" "Companies are rarely criticized for the things that they failed to try. But they are, many times, criticized for things they tried and failed at." "Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success." "We take risks all the time, we talk about failure. We need big failures in order to move the needle. If we don't, we're not swinging enough. You really should be swinging hard, and you will fail, but that's okay."