Failure Quotes

If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.

Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal.

We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.

Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because it's easier, isn't it? Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.

Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

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

Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.

Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than I was and began diverting all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not lived at all. In which case, you've failed by default.

Behind many acts that are thought ridiculous there lie wise and weighty motives.

Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

You always pass failure on the way to success.

A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.

I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.

If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.

It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.

Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.

If a man has talent and can't use it, he's failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he uses the whole of it, he has succeeded, and won a satisfaction and triumph few men ever know.

I have missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot, and I missed. And I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is precisely why I succeed.

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.

If you can't accept losing, you can't win.

Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong.

In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.

Failure is the only opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

Errors are inevitable. The mark of character is not refusing to recognize them, but acknowledging them and taking responsibility.

What you have lost will not be returned to you. It will always be lost. You're left with only your scars to mark the void. All you can choose to do is go on or not. But if you go on, it's knowing you carry your scars with you.

Expect people to be better than they are; it helps them to become better. But don't be disappointed when they are not; it helps them to keep trying.

If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.

Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment.

The greatness comes not when things always go good for you. But the greatness comes when you're really tested, when you take some knocks, some disappointments when sadness comes. Because only if you've been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

To err is human. To blame it on somebody else is even more human.

I don't think there's anything to be afraid of. Failure brings great rewards -- in the life of an artist.

The baby rises to its feet, takes a step, is overcome with triumph and joy - and falls flat on its face. It is a pattern for all that is to come! But learn from the bewildered baby. Lurch to your feet again. You'll make the sofa in the end.

If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.

It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated...it is finished when it surrenders.

No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.

You're never beaten until you admit it.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it; so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

If I ran a school, I'd give the average grade to the ones who gave me all the right answers, for being good parrots. I'd give the top grades to those who made a lot of mistakes and told me about them, and then told me what they learned from them.

Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Men are born to succeed, not fail.

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

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

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.