Fail Greatly to Achieve Greatly
Five Reasons why a future leader should learn to cope with failure when they are young:
- Failure allows you to reflect on your erroneous assumptions
- Failure allows you to grow from self-reflection
- Failure can lead to new and unforeseen opportunities
- Failure builds character
- Most people never try, and that is the biggest and surest path to failure
Prof. David Orozco, Assistant Professor of Business Law,School of Business and Economics,Michigan Technological University, via The WSJE Future Leadership Institute on LinkedIn
“Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet, Lecturer and Essayist, (1803-1882)
“Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.”
Napoleon Hill, American author, (1883-1970)
“Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.”
Anthony Robbins, American leadership trainer
“The essential part of creativity is not being afraid to fail.”
Edwin H. Land
“Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.”
Oprah Winfrey, American television personality
“Try and fail, but don't fail to try.”
Stephen Kaggwa
Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
Samuel Beckett
The only people who never fail are those who never try.
Ilka Chase
In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.
Anthony J. D'Angelo
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
Theodore Roosevelt
I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.
Benjamin Franklin
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I'd rather try and fail than not try at all, as they say.
Bobby Rahal
Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.
Oprah Winfrey
Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.
John F. Kennedy
They never fail who die in a great cause.
Lord Byron
Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
Sophocles
Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty.
Allen Neuharth
If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
I've never been afraid to fail.
Michael Jordan
I'm not afraid of failing. I don't like to fail. I hate to fail. But I'm not afraid of it.
Vince McMahon
Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach.
Roger von Oech
Test fast, fail fast, adjust fast.
Tom Peters