Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

Every failure teaches a man something, if he will but learn.

Charles Simmons

Uncalled for excuses are practical confessions.

Al Neuharth

Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty.

Chi Chi Rodriguez

Don't look for excuses to lose. Look for excuses to win.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

You can't climb the ladder of success...

Louis C. K.

I think you have to try and fail, because failure gets you closer to what you're good at.

Mark Cuban

It doesn't matter how many times you fail. It doesn't matter how many times you almost get it right. No-one is going to know or care about your failures, and neither should you. All you have to do is learn from them and those around you. All that matters in business is that you get it right once. Then everyone can tell you how lucky you are.

There is no question that (post-mortem studies would reveal) a higher failure rate.

Mark Lawrenson

Don't be frightened of failure. It makes you stronger if you learn from your mistakes.

With this level of failure, it makes little sense to weaken protections for fish,

Bill Gates

Reward worthy failure - Experimentation.

Mike McGavick

We brought Safeco back from the brink of failure.

We would be billionaires, but we took responsibility for Summa's failure.

Edward Brooke

Intemperance and intolerance serve no one, and hatred guarantees failure.

Jane Wagner

I feel like my life is just passing me by like two ships in the night. And I have missed both boats.

Catherine Ponder

Failure is nothing but success trying to be born in a bigger way. Most seeming failures are just installments toward victory!

Carroll Quigley

The failure of Christianity in the areas west from Sicily was even greater, and was increased by the spread of Arab outlooks and influence to that area, and especially to Spain.

Al Gore

No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.

Charles Kettering

Learn how to fail intelligently.

Charles Babbage

Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all.

Billie Jean King

The main thing is not a matter of wanting to win; the main thing is being scared to lose.

Keyshawn Johnson

So many times in my life, people have tried to make me a failure.

Bruce Barton

We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success.

Brett Ratner

When you're fearless, you take more risks because you're less conscious of failure or what can go wrong.

John Connolly

The only person who needs to know about failure is yourself.

Brian Tracy

Be prepared to ride the cycles and trends of life; success is never permanent, and failure is never final.

Javier Solana

Yesterday people thought it would be a failure. Today they can see that it's a great success.

The real history of the U.N. lies in the perceived failure of the League of Nations.

Arthur Bloch

A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.

Anton Chekhov

If you cry ''Forward'' you must be sure to make clear the direction in which to go. Don't you see that if you fail to do that and simply call out the word to a monk and a revolutionary, they will go in precisely opposite directions?

Bridget Riley

An artist's failures are as valuable as his successes: by misjudging one thing he conforms something else, even if at the time he does not know what that something else is.

When failure is not an option, we can forget about creativity, learning, and innovation.

Edmund Burke

All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.