3,580 Quotes About Failure

The greatest reward for a man's failure is not necessarily the consequent success, but what he becomes by it.

Two types of choices seem to me to have been crucial in tipping the outcomes [of the various societies' histories] towards success or failure: long-term planning and willingness to reconsider core values. On reflection we can also recognize the crucial role of these same two choices for the outcomes of our individual lives.

The true measure of a man is not what he dreams, but what he aspires to be; a dream is nothing without action. Whether one fails or succeeds is irrelevant; all that matters is that there was motion in his life. That alone affects the world.

Success and failure are two edges of the same blade, two sides of the same coin. To fear one is to forever deny the possibility of the other.

Strength and success - they are above morality, above criticism. It seems, then, that it is not what you do, but how you do it and what you call it. Is there a check in men, deep in them, that stops or punishes? There doesn't seem to be. The only punishment is for failure. In effect no crime is committed unless a criminal is caught.

The futility of action does not absolve one from the failure to act. -

Fail soon so that you can succeed sooner.

Today it is cheaper to start a business than tomorrow.

Failure is not an option but it is constantly a possibility. You manage your success by managing both the technical and the social risk.