Quotes about failure

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sophocles

Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.

Samuel Smiles

Think like a queen. A queen if not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping stone to greatness.

Oprah Winfrey

Inability to make decisions is one of the principal reasons executives fail.

John C. Maxwell

Happy, vibrant, successful people think and behave in certain ways. So do miserable and unfulfilled people. In other words, there are patterns of success and patterns of failure. The good news is, success leaves clues.

Tony Robbins

Looking back I see that I was always afraid of something: of the dark, of displeasing people, of failure. Anything I accomplished had to be done across a barrier of fear.

Eleanor Roosevelt

People who do not succeed have one distinguishing trait in common. They know all the reasons for failure, and have what they believe to be air-tight alibis to explain away their own lack of achievement.

Napoleon Hill

School typically doesn’t prepare young people for real life – unless their lives are spent following instructions and pleasing others. In my opinion, that’s why so many students who succeed in school fail in life.

Ray Dalio

I think in life the key thing is just to fight really hard to make sure something survives. If it looks like you’ve done everything you can to avoid failure, just move forward, move on and learn from it.

Richard Branson