Failure Quotes - 40 quotes

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Failure is the lack of success in achieving a desired outcome. It can take many forms, such as not meeting expectations, experiencing setbacks, or encountering obstacles that prevent progress. Sometimes, failure is seen as a deficient lack of a necessary quality or resource. In technical contexts, ... show more

quote icon I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six 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.

- Michael Jordan

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quote icon I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

- Michael Jordan

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quote icon I was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me. I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.

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quote icon I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

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quote icon I'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn't been fired from Apple. It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it.

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quote icon Sometimes life's gonna hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You've got to find what you love.

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quote icon But great entrepreneurs have a different response to the fear of failure. Yes, they’re afraid of failing, but they’re even more afraid of failing to try.

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quote icon In work and in life, there are two kinds of failure: actions and inactions. You can fail by starting a company that goes out of business or by not starting a company at all.

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quote icon Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.

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quote icon Success is a pile of failure that you are standing on.

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quote icon The Savior’s infinite Atonement completely changes the way we may view our transgressions and imperfections. Instead of dwelling on them and feeling irredeemable or hopeless, we can learn from them and feel hopeful.8 The cleansing gift of repentance allows us to leave our sins behind and emerge a new creature.9 Because of Jesus Christ, our failures do not have to define us. They can refine us. Like a musician rehearsing scales, we can see our missteps, flaws, and sins as opportunities for greater self-awareness, deeper and more honest love for others, and refinement through repentance. If we repent, mistakes do not disqualify us. They are part of our progress.

- Dieter F. Uchtdorf

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quote icon Sometimes in the moment I have a regret, but then I have found myself every time down the line saying to myself: "I wouldn't be here if it weren't for that so called failure."

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quote icon “being able to recover quickly from failure is more important than having failures less often“

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quote icon The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.

- Joyce Brothers

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quote icon If you're afraid to fail, then you're probably going to fail.

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quote icon You can't be held captive by the fear of failure or the fear of what people may say.

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quote icon If you make it, great. If you miss it - what's there to be afraid of?

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quote icon As human beings, nobody gets out of this world free. We all have to do some suffering before we leave.

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quote icon No one's failed more than I did. No one's seen more than I've seen. I'm the king of the barbarians. There's no one who can surpass me in the pain I've endured.

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quote icon Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

- Napoleon Hill

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quote icon Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.

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quote icon If you give something a go and it doesn't work out, you certainly haven't failed. You just learned.

- Richard Branson

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quote icon A minute's success pays the failure of years.

- Robert Browning

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quote icon There’s a bit of hidden magic in every mistake. The magic is called learning.

- Robert Kiyosaki

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quote icon Winners are not afraid of losing. But losers are. Failure is part of the process of success. People who avoid failure also avoid success.

- Robert Kiyosaki

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quote icon Now a brief word of caution. The commandment to be like Him is not intended to make you feel guilty, unworthy, or unloved. Our entire mortal experience is about progression, trying, failing, and succeeding.

- Scott D. Whiting

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quote icon If we have deep problems, it's because we are failing at the deepest part of the solution.

- The Arbinger Institute

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quote icon A failure is like fertilizer; it stinks to be sure, but it makes things grow faster in the future.

- Denis Waitley

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quote icon We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.

- General Douglas MacArthur

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quote icon Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.

- George Edward Woodberry

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quote icon You have not failed until you quit trying.

- Gordon B. Hinckley

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quote icon My brain . . . it cannot process failure. It will not process failure. Because if I sit there and have to face myself and tell myself, 'You're a failure' . . . I think that's almost worse than death.

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quote icon Sometimes, things may not go your way, but the effort should be there every single night.

- Michael Jordan

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quote icon I've never been afraid to fail.

- Michael Jordan

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quote icon My advice is find fuel in failure. Sometimes failure gets you closer to where you want to be.

- Michael Jordan

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quote icon Whatever you want, especially when you’re striving to be the best in the world at something, there’ll always be disappointments, and you can’t be emotionally tied to them, cos’ they’ll break your spirit.

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quote icon Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

- Richard Branson

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quote icon Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You're thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success.

- Thomas John Watson, Sr.

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quote icon You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

- Warren Buffett

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quote icon Failure is not fatal. Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. It should challenge us to new heights of accomplishments, not pull us to new depths of despair. From honest failure can come valuable experience.

- William Arthur Ward

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