A few years ago I wrote a series of posts with quotes about Performance Management (Feb 2009, Sept 2009, May 2010). Last week the Global Language Monitor announced that ‘404’ and ‘fail’ are the two most popular words of 2013. Given the popularity of failure, I thought I would catalog a few of my favorite quotes about failing:
“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
Thomas Edison, American inventor
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
Winston Churchill, British politician
“Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.”
Salvador Dalí, Spanish painter
“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.”
Maya Angelou, American author
“Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.”
Samuel Beckett, Irish novelist
“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”
Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States
And one that I’ve been using in talks:
Failure is the new black.
What are your favorite quotes about failure?
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