Quotes about failure

Is your fear of failure greater than your desire to succeed?

Zig Ziglar

Human beings are innately loving beings. When we fail to love, it is because an element of ignorance has intruded into our experience, submerging our natural impulse to love.

Thich Nhat Hanh

I know I will eventually fail and I’m still all in.

Brené Brown

A sure sign of failure for a startup is when someone sends me logo-embroidered polo shirts. If your people are at shows and in public, it’s okay to buy for your own employees, but if you really think people are going to wear your branded polo when they’re out and about, you are mistaken and have no idea how to spend your money.

Mark Cuban

And tell him it’s quite true that the best of the philosophers are of no use to their fellows; but that he should blame, not the philosophers, but those who fail to make use of them.

Plato

To accept grace is to admit failure, a step we are hesitant to take. We opt to impress God with how good we are rather than confessing how great he is.

Max Lucado

Personal initiative, competitive selection, the profit motive, corrected by failure and the infinite process of good housekeeping and the personal ingenuity-here constitute the life of a free society.

Winston Churchill

Death and life, success and failure, pain and pleasure, wealth and poverty, all these happen to good and bad alike, and they are neither noble nor shameful – and hence neither good nor bad.

Marcus Aurelius

Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.

Thomas Jefferson

To live as God’s child is to know that you are loved by your maker not because you try to please him and succeed, or fail to please him and apologize, but because he wants to be your father. Nothing more.

Max Lucado