Failure Quotes - Page 4

Nine times out of ten, failure is resorting to Plan B when Plan A gets too risky, too costly, or too difficult. That's why most people are living their Plan B. They didn't burn the ships. Plan A people don't have a Plan B...There are moments in life when we need to burn the ships to our past. We do so by making a defining decision that will eliminate the possibility of sailing back to the old world we left behind. You burn the ships named Past Failure and Past Success. You burn the ship named Bad Habit. You burn the ship named Regret. You burn the ship named Guilt. You burn the ship named My Old Way of Life.

It is during our failures that we discover our true desire for success.

When life offers you a dream so far beyond any of your expectations, it's not reasonable to grieve when it comes to an end.

We only need grace to get up, whenever we fall.

You can’t work with people you hate and succeed. At least, you won’t get the optimum of what you would have obtained when you work with people you love.

Ideas do not have to be correct in order to be good; its only necessary that, if they do fail, they do so in an interesting way.

Some people will insult your intelligence by suddenly being nice or nicer to you once you make it … or they think you have.

You didn't fail... You just didn't use the right method. It's neither hail nor storm... It's just a stir that precedes the settlement of your destiny. Believe that you will not remain on the ground. Wake up and try again!

Even monkeys fall from trees.

Each day wake up and ask yourself what will make you feel most alive that day.

To become successful, you have to let go of something to get something else of greater value.

Achievements take leaders' name everywhere. Character keeps those names wherever they reach. A leader with no trust soon fades no matter how far he goes.

Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

I would rather aim high and miss the mark than low and make it.

I want to go after dreams that are destined to fail without diving intervention.

Success is fucking up on your own terms.

If the only thing I did for the rest of my life was treat others kindly, file manila folders, and sit on the porch watching the grass grow it would be enough. It had to be. I did the math. The number of people who actually achieve a significant legacy is trifling compared to the vast number who go from birth to death living relatively unremarkable lives (at least on the surface). And maybe that wasn't the failure I'd been conditioned to believe. Maybe there was something to be said in praise of an outwardly unremarkable life. Maybe there were deep everyday forms of magic that had nothing to do with profound acomplishments or a Twitter feed that resonated down through the ages.

One who achieves through struggle has a far good taste of happiness than who gains at once.

Damage control is part of life. It would be better to never make a mistake, but once it's made it's best to handle it with grace and humility. Sometimes that shows others more than our failures ever could.

As we go, we become more deeply committed to a life of purpose and meaning and personal decency as we come to feel a broader connection to the shared experience of humanity.

You don't win races by wishing, you win them by running faster than everyone else. And to do that you have to train hard and strive your utmost, and sometimes even that isn't enough, because another runner just might be more talented than you are. Here's the truth: if you want something, you can have it, but only if you want everything that goes with it, including all the hard work and the despair, and only if you're willing to risk failure. (That's the problem with Karl: he was afraid of failing, so he never really tried.)

The sum of our greatness lies not in asking“what do I want to do?” but rather “who do I want to be?

No matter how much struggle you face in your journey towards success, someday you will look back and realize your struggles changed your life for the better.

The multiple failures of top-down design, and the omnipresence of unintended consequences, can be attributed in large part, to the absence of relevant information.

Luck comes and goes; you have to seize it. Bad luck comes and goes; it must be overcome. But I will never, never sit at the side of the road showing my wounds and shouting, 'It's destiny'!

I wonder what will happen when you actually enjoy the pains that life gives us sometimes. You'll be above them.

Forget all about ‘What if’. Believe in possibilities.

Flawless and faultless outcomes are not products of lawless and careless people. No lawless person is a genuine innovator. To your skillfulness, add good manners; to your willfulness, add carefulness!

Day by day we increase in age. Step by step we reduce the number of our steps. When you grow old, you shall see life differently and you shall get a better understanding of the journey of life: how you lived it and how you should have lived it!

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.

You're not defeated when you lose a battle.You are defeated when you give up the struggle

The best experience that you can get is not from success but from failure.

No one can travel so far that he does not make some progess each day. So let us never give up. Then we shall move forward daily in the Lord's way. And let us never despair because of our limited success. Even though it is so much less than we would like, our labour is not wasted when today is better than yesterday!

We owe some of our successes to people who did not want to help us more than we do to those who have helped us.

If I were to measure my successes by the mistakes that I have made & only focus on the lessons that were learned along the way, then that in itself overall, would be a positive step in the right direction.

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

We need to accept that we won’t always make the right decisions, that we’ll screw up royally sometimes–understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success.

Aspirations without preparations will simply give you life full of frustrations. Develop yourself today!

Writing comes from the fear of failure not from the joy of winning.

Greatness is achieved when you fulfil your purpose by doing what you were born to do.

Don’t believe those who say, ‘you can’t’. You can make it in life.You can realise all your dreams.

Nothing mitigated failure except the knowledge that it did not matter.

Things that will someday work out well start out well. Things that will never work start out bad and stay that way.

Fail early, fail often.

Never give up on your existence.Never give up on your dreams.Never give up on your love.

Peter denied Jesus; Judas betrayed Jesus. The bad news was that both of them fell off the track and were both filled with regrets, remorse and anguish for their mischievous behaviours. However it was only Peter who chose to rise again after falling! Judas chose to end it with suicide! If you fall, you can rise again!

All of us learned how to walk by failing.

I assumed that everything would lead to complete failure, but I decided that didn't matter – that would be my life.

We named the bar The Bar. "People will think we're ironic instead of creatively bankrupt," my sister reasoned.Yes, we thought we were being clever New Yorkers - that the name was a joke no one else would really get, like we did. Not meta-get ... But our first customer, a gray-haired woman in bifocals and a pink jogging suit, said, "I like the name. Like in Breakfast at Tiffany's and Audrey Hepburn's cat was named Cat.

Leaders do not play a "what if game". They believe it will be and work it to be! Success is scarce because fear is common.

To be successful in life , Plan, Implement, Revise, Update, and Build on Change.

Desires and Karma are the worst enemies living in the same soul together. It depends on us whom we choose and feed.

Unfortunately, people don’t know how they are created and live making grave mistakes, losing their peace, destroying their mentality and failing to fulfill their callings

I must endure to the end.

Her failure was a useful preliminary to success.

Turn your failure into a fairy tale of success and triumph.

Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.

THE Biggest enemy of Truth is known as Facts in our Society

Failures make character, not success.

Failure teaches you a lesson.The latter guides you to success.