Failure Quotes

Had I been five or six years older, the sheer absurdity of trying to sell advertising to major companies, in a magazine that did not yet exist, edited by two fifteen-year-old schoolboys, would have prevented me from picking up the phone at all. But I was too young to contemplate failure.

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.

My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default.

On the plains of hesitation lie the blackendbones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory sat to rest, and resting, died.

Many Theresas have been born who found for themselves no epic life wherein there was a constant unfolding of far-resonant action; perhaps only a life of mistakes, the offspring of a certain spiritual grandeur ill-matched with the meanness of opportunity; perhaps a tragic failure which found no sacred poet and sank unwept into oblivion.

We are all failures - at least, all the best of us are.

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. But it's not. It takes patience, it takes commitment, and it comes with plenty of failure along the way. The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won't. it's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.

You just can't beat the person who won't give up.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from failure.

There is no such thing as a failed experiment, only experiments with unexpected outcomes.

After being turned down by numerous publishers, he had decided to write for posterity.

You may be disappointed if you fail,
but you are doomed if you don't try

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.

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

I have missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot... and missed. And I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why... I succeed.

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.

Excuses are patches on the cloak of failure.

I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.