Quotes about failure

I will not allow yesterday’s success to lull me into today’s complacency, for this is the great foundation of failure.

Og Mandino

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Henry David Thoreau

I will remove from my vocabulary such words and phrases as quit, cannot, unable, impossible, out of the question, improbable, failure, unworkable, hopeless, and retreat; for they are the words of fools.

Og Mandino

There is dignity in suffering; nobility in pain; but failure is a salted wound, that burns and burns again!

Woody Allen

I can afford to take a risk in my life. Only the insecure cannot afford to risk failure. The secure can be honest about themselves. They can admit failure. They are able to seek help and try again. They can change.

John C. Maxwell

I’d rather learn how to prevent failure than how to gain success, because for what is success other than a state of mind?

Og Mandino

Like any good school, learning from failure isn’t free. The tuition is paid in discomfort or loss and having to start over.

Ryan Holiday

Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Ordinary people shy away form negative situations, just as they do with failure. They do their best to avoid trouble. What great people do is the opposite. They are their best in these situations. They turn personal tragedy or misfortune – really anything, everything – to their advantage.

Ryan Holiday

Open eyes will discover opportunities everywhere; open ears will never fail to detect the cries of those who are perishing for assistance; open hearts will never want for worthy objects upon which to bestow their gifts; open hands will never lack for noble work to do.

Orison Swett Marden