388 quotes
“A goal without a timeline is just a dream and dreams without action including surviving failure remain fantasies”
— Robert Herjavec
“The fault dear Brutus is not in our stars but in ourselves”
— William Shakespeare
“Desire is a contract you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want”
— Naval Ravikant
“Failure is instructive the person who really thinks learns quite as much from failures as from successes”
— John Dewey
“My dad encouraged us to fail growing up he would ask us what we failed at that week”
— Sara Blakely
“Failure is just a stepping stone to success.”
— Thomas Edison
“Out of the crooked timber of humanity no straight thing was ever made”
— Immanuel Kant
“Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again this time more intelligently”
— Henry Ford
“Control leads to compliance autonomy leads to engagement”
— Daniel Pink
“Dripping water hollows out stone not through force but through persistence”
— Ovid
“There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.”
— Elbert Hubbard
“I did not see it then but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me”
— Steve Jobs
“Have no fear of perfection you will never reach it so embrace the beauty of failure”
— Salvador Dali
“What you wear is how you present yourself to the world failure teaches us who we really are”
— Miuccia Prada
“There are no secrets to success it is the result of preparation hard work and learning from failure”
— Colin Powell
“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”
— Truman Capote
“Elegance is not about being noticed it is about being remembered even your elegant failures”
— Giorgio Armani
“In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind”
— Louis Pasteur
“I do not design clothes I design dreams and sometimes those dreams start as failures”
— Ralph Lauren
“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”
— Paulo Coelho
“If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down.”
— Mary Pickford
“A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends”
— Baltasar Gracian
“Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way”
— Edward de Bono
“Sometimes you win sometimes you learn”
— John C. Maxwell
“Develop success from failures discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success”
— Dale Carnegie
“Success unshared is failure”
— John Paul DeJoria
“When you discover your mission you will feel its demand it will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it”
— W. Clement Stone
“Strength does not come from physical capacity it comes from an indomitable will”
— Mahatma Gandhi
“If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product you launched too late”
— Reid Hoffman
“I have not failed. I have just found 10000 ways that wont work.”
“Enthusiasm is common endurance is rare”
— Angela Duckworth
“Never let a stumble be the end of a journey let it be the beginning of a lesson”
— Daymond John
“Do not worry about failure you only have to be right once”
— Drew Houston
“The difference between successful people and others is how long they spend time feeling sorry for themselves”
— Barbara Corcoran
“A failure is not always a mistake it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances”
— B.F. Skinner
“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. This is the creative path.”
— Samuel Beckett
“I have been impressed with the urgency of doing learning is not enough we must apply and failing forward is essential”
— Leonardo da Vinci
“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants”
— Isaac Newton
“The best way to predict the future is to create it even through many failures”
— Peter Drucker
“Achievement is talent plus preparation failure is talent minus preparation”
— Malcolm Gladwell
“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.”
— Robert F. Kennedy
“Dream big and dare to fail.”
— Norman Vaughan
“The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.”
— Buddha
“I fear no one but respect everyone”
— Roger Federer
“Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough”
— Og Mandino
“Shoot for the moon even if you miss you will land among the stars”
— Norman Vincent Peale
“If you are not making mistakes you are not trying hard enough”
— Anne Wojcicki
“Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.”
— Elon Musk
“Success is most often achieved by those who do not know that failure is inevitable”
— Coco Chanel
“The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.”
— Paramahansa Yogananda
“Failure is a manifestation of learning and exploration if you are not experiencing failure then you are making a far worse mistake”
— Ed Catmull
“When one door closes, fortune will usually open another.”
— Fernando de Rojas
“The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more”
— Jonas Salk
“Clarity about what matters provides clarity about what does not”
— Cal Newport
“The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.”
— Edward John Phelps
“Sometimes it is the people no one can imagine anything of who do the things no one can imagine”
— Alan Turing
“I do not care what you think about me I do not think about you at all especially your opinion of my failures”
“I have not failed I have just found 10000 ways that wont work”
“In any given moment we have two options to step forward into growth or to step back into safety”
— Abraham Maslow
“Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains.”
— Marianne von Ebner-Eschenbach
“How will you measure your life not by avoiding failure but by what you built despite it”
— Clayton Christensen
“I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success”
— Nikola Tesla
“The only thing worse than starting something and failing is not starting something.”
— Seth Godin
“Buy less choose well make it last and always learn from your failures”
— Vivienne Westwood
“They always say time changes things but you actually have to change them yourself especially after failure”
— Andy Warhol
“Sometimes the hardest things in life are the things most worth doing”
— Tom Brady
“Done is better than good”
— Elizabeth Gilbert
“Winners are not afraid of losing but losers are so they avoid the chance of winning”
— Robert Kiyosaki
“No man is a failure who is enjoying life.”
— William Feather
“Not failure, but low aim, is crime.”
— James Russell Lowell
“Before success comes in any mans life he is sure to meet with much temporary defeat”
— Napoleon Hill
“The perfect is the enemy of the good”
— Voltaire
“Every strike brings me closer to the next home run”
— Babe Ruth
— Gautama Buddha
“A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new”
— Albert Einstein
“It's okay to fail, as long as you don't stop.”
— Anonymous
“Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards”
— Soren Kierkegaard
“Yesterday's failure is today's textbook.”
“I want to empower women I want people to be afraid of the women I dress not afraid of failure”
— Alexander McQueen
“You build on failure you use it as a stepping stone close the door on the past”
— Johnny Cash
“It is fine to celebrate success, but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.”
— Bill Gates
“There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it is going to be a butterfly”
— Buckminster Fuller
“Skills are cheap passion is priceless”
— Gary Vaynerchuk
“Failure is a detour not a dead end street”
— Zig Ziglar
“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.”
— Unknown
“Let your joy be in your journey not in some distant goal”
— Tim Cook
“A person who is happy is not because everything is right in his life he is happy because his attitude towards everything in his life is right”
— Sundar Pichai
“Vulnerability is not winning or losing its having the courage to show up and be seen when we have no control over the outcome”
— Brene Brown
“The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance remember the greatest failure is to not try”
— Debbi Fields
“Learned helplessness is the giving up reaction the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do does not matter”
— Martin Seligman
“The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing”
— Brendon Burchard
“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
— Herman Melville
“This thing that we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down”
“The best moments in our lives are not the passive receptive relaxing times the best moments usually occur when a person is stretched”
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
“All change is hard at first messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end”
— Robin Sharma
“It is hard to fail but it is worse never to have tried to succeed”
— Theodore Roosevelt
“The first step of creativity is to stop being afraid of failure”
— Brian Eno
“Success is no accident it is hard work perseverance learning studying sacrifice and most of all love”
— Pele
“Do not fear mistakes. There are none.”
— Miles Davis
“That which does not kill us makes us stronger”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
“There is no success without hardship”
— Sophocles
“Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago”
— Warren Buffett
“Reinvention is not just a luxury it is a necessity especially after every failure”
— Karl Lagerfeld
“I have missed more than 9000 shots in my career I have lost almost 300 games 26 times I have been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed I have failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed”
— Michael Jordan
“The future of fashion belongs to those who embrace both success and failure”
— Donna Karan
“I have not failed. I have just found 10000 ways that will not work.”
“I really think a champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall”
— Serena Williams
“Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome”
— Booker T. Washington
“A stumble may prevent a fall.”
— Thomas Fuller
“Failure is impossible.”
— Susan B. Anthony
“Resulting is when we equate the quality of our decisions with the quality of our outcomes”
— Annie Duke
“The essence of investment management is the management of risks not the management of returns”
— Benjamin Graham
“I am not what happened to me I am what I choose to become”
— Carl Jung
“Fall seven times, stand up eight.”
“I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.”
“Becoming is better than being”
— Carol Dweck
“He who learns must suffer and even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart”
— Aeschylus
“Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.”
— Vincent van Gogh
“Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong.”
— Henry Ward Beecher
“The wound is the place where the light enters you”
— Rumi
“He who has gone so far as to cut the claws of the lion will not feel quite secure until he has also drawn his teeth.”
— Laozi
“It doesnt matter how many times you fail you only have to be right once and then everyone can tell you that you are an overnight success”
— Mark Cuban
“The desire for more positive experience is itself a negative experience”
— Mark Manson
“If you double the number of experiments you double your number of inventions”
— Jeff Bezos
“In order to succeed people need a sense of self-efficacy to struggle together with resilience to meet the inevitable obstacles of life”
— Albert Bandura
“Even a correct decision is wrong when it is taken too late.”
— Lee Tao
“Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant”
— Horace
“Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become”
— James Clear
“The big money is not in the buying or selling but in the waiting”
— Charlie Munger
“The only thing worse than starting something and failing... is not starting something.”
“Time and silence are the most luxurious things today and the best companions during failure”
— Tom Ford
“A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence”
— David Hume
“I never dreamed about success I worked for it through countless failures”
— Estee Lauder
“Do not be afraid to make mistakes because there is no way to avoid them”
— Reed Hastings
“All the adversity I have had all my troubles and obstacles have strengthened me”
— Walt Disney
“Working hard for something we do not care about is called stress working hard for something we love is called passion”
— Simon Sinek
“Fashion is about dressing according to what is fashionable but style is more about being yourself even through failures”
— Carolina Herrera
“True failure is not trying.”
— George Woodberry
“The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success”
“I have missed more than 9000 shots in my career I have lost almost 300 games 26 times I have been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed”
“Failure is the most certain step towards success.”
“Every piece of software is an opinion about how the world should work failure teaches us how it actually works”
— Stewart Butterfield
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
— Winston Churchill
“I have learned over the years that when ones mind is made up this diminishes fear”
— Rosa Parks
“Failure is an option here if things are not failing you are not innovating enough”
“If you are not prepared to be wrong you will never come up with anything original”
— Ken Robinson
“To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.”
— W. Somerset Maugham
“In the midst of chaos there is also opportunity”
— Sun Tzu
“The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery not over nature but of ourselves”
— Rachel Carson
“Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall”
— Confucius
“The worst thing I can do is stay in one of my comfort zones”
— Ursula Burns
“At the end of the day we can endure much more than we think we can”
— Frida Kahlo
“Failure is a stepping stone to success.”
“It does not matter how many times you get knocked down but how many times you get up”
— Vince Lombardi
“I made a resolve then that I was going to amount to something if I could and that no temporary setback was going to hold me down”
— Colonel Sanders
“If it is a good idea go ahead and do it it is much easier to apologize than it is to get permission”
— Grace Hopper
“The only true failure is not to try.”
— George Clooney
“I have not failed I have just found 10000 ways that will not work”
“Failure does not define me. My attitude towards failure shapes who I am.”
“There is no failure except in no longer trying.”
“Do not be afraid of failure. It is a part of learning.”
— John Wooden
“I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success as the quality of perseverance it overcomes almost everything even nature”
— John D. Rockefeller
“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty”
— Maya Angelou
“Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.”
— Richard Branson
“It is not what happens to you but how you react to it that matters”
— Epictetus
“Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.”
“You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take”
— Wayne Gretzky
“Brilliant thinking is rare but courage is in even shorter supply than genius”
— Peter Thiel
“Failure is not the opposite of success it is part of success”
— Arianna Huffington
“We become what we think about most of the time and that is the strangest secret”
— Earl Nightingale
“As I grow older I pay less attention to what men say I just watch what they do especially after failure”
— Andrew Carnegie
“I have come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understanding that has created the new level of living I now enjoy”
— Tony Robbins
“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
— Oliver Goldsmith
“Do not wish it were easier wish you were better”
— Jim Rohn
“Growth and comfort do not coexist”
— Ginni Rometty
“Our greatest glory consists not in never falling but in rising every time we fall”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Act as if what you do makes a difference because it does”
— William James
“If we win the hearts and minds of employees we are going to have better business success because failures teach us resilience”
— Mary Barra
“Success has many fathers, but failure is an orphan.”
— Tacitus
“If you are successful it is because somewhere sometime someone gave you a life or an idea that started you in the right direction”
— Melinda Gates
“I have missed more than nine thousand shots in my career and that is why I succeed”
“I have not failed. I have found ten thousand ways that do not work.”
“The measure of a man is what he does with power after failure”
— Plato
“The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are even if it means failing”
— J.P. Morgan
“Do not be afraid to be different and do not be afraid to fail being different”
— Donatella Versace
“Run towards your dreams. Failure can be overcome.”
“Failure is a signal to find a better way.”
“The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.”
“Being original does not require being first it just means being different and better”
— Adam Grant
“It's okay to fail. It's a learning experience.”
“Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
“There is no innovation and creativity without failure period”
“The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of peace and success.”
“The more scared we are of a work or calling the more sure we can be that we have to do it”
— Steven Pressfield
“Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed”
— Montesquieu
“The arrow that has left the bow never returns.”
— Saadi Shirazi
“An intelligence is the ability to solve problems or fashion products that are valued in one or more cultural settings”
— Howard Gardner
“Failure is evidence of growth.”
“Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul”
— Muhammad Ali
“Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes”
— Oscar Wilde
“If you focus on the user experience the business results will follow despite many failures along the way”
— Evan Spiegel
“You need to fail to learn how to overcome failure.”
“The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.”
— Mark Zuckerberg
“Failure is temporary, but giving up is forever.”
“If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced”
“Do not wait until you know who you are to get started”
— Austin Kleon
“Pain plus reflection equals progress”
— Ray Dalio
“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling but in rising every time we fall”
— Nelson Mandela
“I have always been driven to buck the system to innovate to take things beyond where they have been and many times I failed”
— Sam Walton
“When you innovate you have got to be prepared for everyone telling you that you are nuts”
— Larry Ellison
“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
“The real mistake is doing nothing.”
“Nine failures out of every ten are by people who have the habit of making excuses.”
— George Washington Carver
“Failure is not the outcome failure is not trying do not be afraid to fail”
“Every great dream begins with a dreamer always remember you have within you the strength the patience and the passion to reach for the stars”
— Harriet Tubman
“I got my start by giving myself a start and I did not let failure stop me from starting again”
— Madam C.J. Walker
“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor”
— Marc Jacobs
“He who has never failed somewhere, that man cannot be great.”
“Entrepreneurs are willing to work eighty hours a week to avoid working forty hours a week because they know failure is temporary”
— Lori Greiner
“If there is no struggle there is no progress”
— Frederick Douglass
“The only thing worse than starting something and failing is not starting something”
“I have not failed. I have just found ten thousand ways that will not work.”
“It is not the strongest of the species that survives nor the most intelligent but the one most responsive to change”
— Charles Darwin
“Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.”
“Just because you are CEO do not think you have landed life is an unpredictable thing”
— Indra Nooyi
“Failure is not fatal but failure to change might be”
“Failure is not a way back, it's just a different path.”
“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals”
“Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.”
“I do not measure a man by the height he has climbed but by the depth from which he has risen”
— George S. Patton
“There is no such thing as failure failure is just life trying to move us in another direction”
— Oprah Winfrey
“What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do”
— Tim Ferriss
“You do not learn to walk by following rules you learn by doing and by falling over”
“Do not just make money make a difference through your failures and successes”
— Grant Cardone
“Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet.”
“He that is down needs fear no fall.”
— John Bunyan
“The most important relationship in your life is the one you have with yourself especially through failure”
— Diane von Furstenberg
“Success is not about the destination but the journey there and sometimes that journey is paved with failure”
— Vera Wang
“Success is 99 percent failure”
— Soichiro Honda
“You need a story to displace a story narratives do not change because of facts”
— Nassim Taleb
