Failure Quotes

I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.

If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.

Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.

If a man has talent and can't use it, he's failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he uses the whole of it, he has succeeded, and won a satisfaction and triumph few men ever know.

I have missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot, and I missed. And I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is precisely why I succeed.

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.

If you can't accept losing, you can't win.

Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong.

In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.

Failure is the only opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.