Failure Quotes

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

~ Thomas A. Edison

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

~ Winston S. Churchill

The end of a relationship is not always a failure. Sometimes all the love in the world is not enough to save something. In these cases, it is not a matter of fault from either person. Some things cannot be, it's as simple as that.

~ Ashly Lorenzana

Do not fear failure but rather fear not trying.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Do not let arrogance go to your head and despair to your heart, do not let compliments go to your head and criticisms to your heart, do not let success go to your head and failure to your heart.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Failure is a bend in the road, not the end of the road. Learn from failure and keep moving forward.

~ Roy T. Bennett

You’re not obligated to win. You’re obligated to keep trying. To the best you can do everyday.

~ Jason Mraz

Successful people have no fear of failure. But unsuccessful people do. Successful people have the resilience to face up to failure—learn the lessons and adapt from it.

~ Roy T. Bennett

The one who falls and gets up is stronger than the one who never tried. Do not fear failure but rather fear not trying.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Winners are not afraid of losing. But losers are. Failure is part of the process of success. People who avoid failure also avoid success.

~ Robert T. Kiyosaki

How much you can learn when you fail determines how far you will go into achieving your goals.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Failures are the stairs we climb to reach success.

~ Roy T. Bennett

But instead of spending our lives running towards our dreams, we are often running away from a fear of failure or a fear of criticism.

~ Eric Wright

You might never fail on the scale I did, but some failure in life is inevitable. It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all - in which case, you fail by default.

~ J.k. Rowling

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

~ Beverly Sills

You make mistakes, mistakes don't make you

~ Maxwell Maltz

Be patient. Your skin took a while to deteriorate. Give it some time to reflect a calmer inner state. As one of my friends states on his Facebook profile: The true Losers in Life, are not those who Try and Fail, but those who Fail to Try.

~ Jess C. Scott

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.

~ Herbert Bayard Swope

Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.

~ Lance Armstrong

The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.

~ Randy Pausch

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

~ Henry David Thoreau

Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

~ Samuel Beckett

Success is determined not by whether or not you face obstacles, but by your reaction to them. And if you look at these obstacles as a containing fence, they become your excuse for failure. If you look at them as a hurdle, each one strengthens you for the next.

~ Ben Carson

When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important.

~ Ellen Degeneres

I advise you to stop sharing your dreams with people who try to hold you back, even if they're your parents. Because, if you're the kind of person who senses there's something out there for you beyond whatever it is you're expected to do - if you want to be EXTRA-ordinary- you will not get there by hanging around a bunch of people who tell you you're not extraordinary. Instead, you will probablybecome as ordinary as they expect you to be.

~ Kelly Cutrone

All the time you're saying to yourself, 'I could do that, but I won't,' — which is just another way of saying that you can't.

~ Richard Feynman

Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

~ J.k. Rowling

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

~ Elbert Hubbard

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.

~ George E. Woodberry

With a hint of good judgment, to fear nothing, not failure or suffering or even death, indicates that you value life the most. You live to the extreme; you push limits; you spend your time building legacies. Those do not die.

~ Criss Jami

The bottom line is, insults only hurt when they come from someone I respect.

~ Kresley Cole

There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.

~ Sivananda Saraswati

I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.

~ Benjamin Franklin

If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.

~ Steven Wright

[T]he concern of man is not his future but his present, not the world but his soul. We must be just, we must strive, we must engage ourselves with the business of the world for our own sake, because through that, and through contemplation in equal measure, our soul is purified and brought closer to the divine. ... Thought and deed conjoined are crucial. ... The attempt must be made; the outcome is irrelevant. Right action is a pale material reflection of the divine, but reflection it is, nonetheless. Define your goal and exert reason to accomplish it by virtuous action; successs or failure is secondary.

~ Iain Pears

Failure is when you stop trying to do something.So, if you want to succeed.Don't stop trying.

~ Anthony T. Hincks

Depression! It really gets you down.

~ Anthony T.hincks

If we fear failure, how then will we handle success?

~ Anthony T. Hincks

Success and failure are relative categories. Therefore, do not exult in victory and do not despair after defeat. Accept the changes in life placidly, knowing that autumn and winter come after summer.

~ Eraldo Banovac

A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche