Quotes about failure

My hope was that when I failed, if I failed, I’d fail quickly, so I’d have enough time, enough years, to implement all the hard-won lessons. I wasn’t much for setting goals, but this goal kept flashing through my mind every day, until it became my internal chant: Fail fast.

Phil Knight

I must have no fear of failure. It was my fear of failure that first kept me from attempting the master work.

Paulo Coelho

Quality effective leaders have the confidence to trust others to try, succeed, and sometimes to fail.

Simon Sinek

If you want to change your life, begin by changing your words. Start speaking the words of your dreams, of who you want to become, not the words of fear or failure.

Robert Kiyosaki

No failure means no risk, which means nothing new.

Richard Branson

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

Napoleon Hill

You are not a failure until you start blaming others for your mistakes.

John Wooden

Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.

Oprah Winfrey

Success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can’t be happy as a success, it’s very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

Michael Korda

There can be glory in failure and despair in success.

Abraham Lincoln