Quotes & Sayings About Failing To Succeed

Better to fail at doing the right thing than to succeed at doing the wrong thing. — Guy Kawasaki

Businesses planned for service are apt to succeed businesses planned for profit are apt to fail. — Nicholas Murray Butler

A failing grade does not denounce a child to fail in life. An IQ is what I would call an 'inadequate question', it may state our brain capacity or tell us how smart we are, but it does not predict our future. Happy Character Traits and positive Reinforcements will help a child succeed better than a number that means nothing — Davis Carlson

It takes less work to succeed than to fail. — W. Clement Stone

That's one of my biggest obstacles. I'm afraid of failure. I want to succeed so bad that I become afraid of failing. — LeBron James

I'm my own boss, my own editor, my own shooter, my own writer, everything. This is all stuff I learned through trial and error ... failing at a lot of things has taught me how to succeed at them eventually ... you roll with the punches. — Lilly Singh

Indecisiveness and procrastination are the chosen ways of life for most people. They follow the course of least resistance, which is to do nothing. This provides a security blanket of never being wrong, never making mistakes, never being disappointed and never failing. But they will also never succeed. — David Peoples

Unfortunately, to succeed in business, organizations need to make difficult choices all the time-what to do and, more important, what not to do. The truth of the matter is that whenever we make a difficult choice, some people will win and some will lose. The winners will be happy and the losers unhappy. It's impossible to make everybody happy all the time. If everybody in your organization is happy, that may be because you're failing to lead them. — Constantinos C. Markides

It's not that I succeed, it's that everyone else has to fail, horribly, preferably in front of their parents. — Attila The Hun

If you are afraid to fail, you will never succeed. — Dan Gable

If you're willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly. — Edward Albee

Fail early, fail often, in order to succeed sooner. — Tom Kelley

You don't have to succeed. You just need to stop failing. — Peter James West

In a healthy organization, a certain amount of failure is okay. At Microsoft, for example, there has long been an almost official policy of "sink, then swim." People are loaded down with so much responsibility that they sink (fail). Then they have a chance to rest up, to analyze and modify their own performance. Finally, they are loaded again with a comparable amount of responsibility, but this time they succeed. If they don't sink the first time, that just shows they weren't challenged enough. They can be sure that the next time out they will be challenged a lot more aggressively. To the extent that this policy is applied company-wide, Microsoft seems to be run as an Outward Bound adventure. Finding your weaknesses by failing is not just incidental; it is designed into the corporate philosophy. — Tom DeMarco

Failure is an absolute prerequisite for success. You learn to succeed by failing. — Brian Tracy

My willingness to fail gives me the ability to succeed. — Vinod Khosla

It is impossible to succeed without failing. — Brian Tracy

Those who are afraid to fail may not deserve to succeed. — Nido R. Qubein

There are some persons who never succeed from being too indolent to undertake anything; and others who regularly fail, because the instant they find success in their power, they grow indifferent, and give over the attempt. — William Hazlitt

It is not what is happening to you but rather what is happening in you that determines whether you succeed or fail. — Ervin Seale

Every opportunity to fail is an opportunity to succeed. Failing to fail is succeeding. — Ben Tolosa

In show business the saying seems too often true: it isn't enough to succeed; someone else must fail. — Gene Tierney

I've had many failures in terms of technological ... business ... and even research failures. I really believe that entrepreneurship is about being able to face failure, manage failure and succeed after failing. — Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

It's easy, given the times we live in and the implicit messages we absorb each day, to equeate a good life with having a lot and doing a lot. So it's also easy to fall into believing that our children, if they are to succeed in life, need to be terrific at everything, and that it's up to us to make sure that they are-to keep them on track through tougher course loads, more activities, more competitive sports, more summer programs. But in all our well-intentioned efforts to do the right thing for our children, we may be failing to provide them with something that is truly essential-the time and space they need to wake up to themselves, to grow acquainted with their own innate gifts, to dream their dreams and discover their true natures. — Katrina Kenison

It's your thinking that decides whether you're going to succeed or fail. — Henry Ford

It is possible to take a population of students who are failing and whose schools are failing them, who are being written off as not being college material, and if they have the right support, they can all go to college and succeed. — Mitch Kapor

People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed, and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the tendency is to get on a downward spiral that can even become a self-fulfilling prophecy. — Tony Robbins

In order to succeed spectacularly you have to be willing to fail spectacularly. — Biz Stone

You cannot achieve success without the risk of failure. And I learned a long time ago, you cannot achieve success, if you fear failure. If you're not afraid to fail, man, you have a chance to succeed. But you're never gonna get there unless you risk it, all the way. I'll risk failure. Sometimes, half the fun is failing. Learning from your mistakes, waking up the next morning, and saying 'Okay. Watch out. Here I come again. A little bit smarter, licking my wounds, and really not looking forward to getting my ass kicked the way I just did yesterday.' So now, I'm just a little more dangerous. — Paul Heyman

Do not be afraid to fail, but also, do not be afraid to succeed. — Eric Schmidt

what terrifies me most is how we
foam at the mouth with envy
when others succeed
but sigh in relief
when they are failing

our struggle to
celebrate each other is
what's proven most difficult
in being human — Rupi Kaur

A lot of people are afraid to succeed and don't want to fail but if you don't attempt, aren't you already failing in the same spot? — Behdad Sami

I do not mean you would be a failure, only that it is to be expected that you will not succeed every time, it is not possible. It is not even advisable - for how would you ever learn? It is necessary to fail. You must expect, even joyfully embrace, failing. — Willow Danes

The willingness to fail gives us the freedom to succeed. — Vinod Khosla

It is wrong to blame anyone for failing to forecast accurately in an unpredictable world. However, it seems fair to blame professionals for believing they can succeed in an impossible task. Claims — Daniel Kahneman

I can't tell you how to succeed, but I can tell you how to fail: Try to please everybody. — Eleanor Roosevelt

When you stop being so afraid of failing you become much more free to succeed — Rich Mullins

It is better to fail at your own life than to succeed at someone else's. — Andre Gide

If you are going to succeed, you must deal with what caused you to fail — Tony Robbins

TRIED SO HARD TO KEEP THEM FROM FAILING THAT I FAILED TO GIVE THEM WHAT THEY NEEDED TO SUCCEED — Iyanla Vanzant

Never give up your right to be wrong, and be sure to give others that right too. — Tim Fargo

Now we cannot ... discover our failure to keep God's law except by trying our very hardest (and then failing). Unless we really try, whatever we say there will always be at the back of our minds the idea that if we try harder next time we shall succeed in being completely good. Thus, in one sense, the road back to God is a road of moral effort, of trying harder and harder. But in another sense it is not trying that is ever going tobring us home. All this trying leads up to the vital moment at which you turn to God and say, You must do this. I can't. — C.S. Lewis

It's the building of things that makes you happy. You have to enjoy the process whether you succeed or fail. — Caterina Fake

In an age where everything and everyone is linked through networks of glass and air, no one - no business, organization, government agency, country - is an island. We need to do right by all our stakeholders, and that's how you create value for shareholders. And one thing is for sure - no organization can succeed in a world that is failing. — Don Tapscott