Business Quotes Regarding Failure

Try to do to others as you would have them do to you, and do not be discouraged if they fail sometimes. It is much better that they should fail than that you should. Charles Dickens

Giving up is the ultimate tragedy. Robert J. Donovan

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall. C Confucius

Don’t take no for an answer, never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. You will make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her. She was made to be wooed and won by youth. Winston Churchill

Nothing resembles pride so much as discouragement. Henri Frédéric Amiel

Discouragement is of all ages: In youth it is a presentiment, in old age a remembrance. Honoré de Balzac

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth. Benjamin Disareli

Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. Thomas Edison

No man is a failure who en joys life. William Feather

Failure is success if we learn from it. Malcolm Forbes

Never let us be discouraged with ourselves. It is not when we are conscious of our faults that we are the most wicked; on the contrary, we are less so. François Fénelon

Don’t let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was. Richard L. Evans

Power in the hand of lack knowledge, inexperience and ego is a sure way to failure. Harry F. Banks

One of the things I learned the hard way was it does not pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself. Lucille Ball

Whoever admits that he is too busy to improve his methods, has acknowledged himself to be at the end of his rope. And that is always the saddest predicament which any one can get into. J. Ogden Armour

Failures either do not know what they want, or jib at the price. W.H. Auden

The path to oblivion often goes through a triumphal arch. Don Aminado

Time after time. . .today’s crisis shrinks to next week’s footnote to a newly headline disaster. Hal Borland

Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success. Edward Downden

Failures inspire pity, seldom admiration. The streets of the City of Failure are paved with alibis—some of which are absolutely perfect. Harry A. Earnshaw