Zig Ziglar: Quotes about failure

Zig Ziglar was American motivational speaker. Explore interesting quotes on failure.

Zig Ziglar: 174 quotes132 likes

“The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for what you want right now”

“Failure is an event not a person”

Variant: Failing is an event, not a person. Yesterday ended last night.

“Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.”

Variant: Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.

“Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.”

“Failure has been correctly identified as the line of least persistence.”

See You at the Top (2000)

“The usual devastating put-downs imply that a person is basically bad, rather than that he is a person who sometimes does bad things. Obviously, there is a vast difference between a "bad" person and a person who does something bad.
Besides, failure is an event, it is not a person — yesterday ended last night.”

See You at the Top (2000)
Variant: Failure is an event, not a person. Yesterday ended last night.

“Remember that failure is an event, not a person.”