Failure Quotes
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Magic was always bound to claim her in the end, in retrospect, but love was the most susceptible to random failure of all human enterprises.
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If you have the will to win, you have achieved half your success; if you don't, you have achieved half your failure.
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But the greatest error is not to move. The greatest error is to be paralysed by the fear of failure.
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Success without happiness is failure.
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Artists know failure. It is not tragic that they know failure; it is only tragic if they know failure and little else.
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I can't say I'm not grateful to have journalists writing about me as a genius. But I know it's not true. I'm not confused. I understand that success comes through a lot of failure and a lot of very embarrassing failure. People want to create the next Facebook, but they are too afraid to create the next Facemash.
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I don't understand a way to work other than bold-facedly running towards failure.
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You will profit by the failure, and will avoid it another time. I have done a similar thing myself, in construction, often. Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn.
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There is some risk involved in action, there always is. But there is far more risk in failure to act.
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Failure means nothing now, only that it taught me life.
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The difference between success and failure is not which stock you buy or which piece of real estate you buy, it's asset allocation.
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We all have the same fear, the fear of failure. We all have the fear of failure…as someone successful the weight of all that you’ve done is on you.
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FINAO. My word for my companies. Failure Is Not An Option.
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If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we will immediately feel overwhelmed.
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Failure is a resource that can be managed.
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In the long run, failure was the only thing that worked predictably. All else was accidental.
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If you make a mistake, don’t spend precious time and energy trying to deny it or point the finger at someone else. Be a leader and own it, then spend your time and energy fixing the problem. As I’ve already noted, start-ups often fail because founders want to be seen as the smartest person in the room, which means not being wrong. Making a mistake is going to happen. None of us is perfect. But the difference between success and failure is how you handle that mistake.
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The biggest problem in my life is trying to be the kind of man that I want to be, the father that I want to be, and how to process the failure of my marriage.
