Failure Quotes

If there are no barriers to cross or demons to slay in the journey to reach your desired destination, how can you call it a success?

~ Debasish Mridha

Sometimes when you are falling down you grow wings to fly.

~ Debasish Mridha

Inner peace has no correlation with success or failure—winning or losing.

~ Debasish Mridha

Failure could bring the best opportunity to start the most wonderful life.

~ Debasish Mridha

A wise person does not fear failure but gains experience and wisdom.

~ Debasish Mridha M.d.

The best experience that you can get is not from success but from failure.

~ Debasish Mridha M.d.

Failure comes from fear. Success comes from boldness and persistence.

~ Debasish Mridha M.d.

A true friend does not make you win by making you the winner to the detriment of the true winner. He makes sure that you become a loser, not because he likes the way you fail, but to enlighten you on how it feels to be treated that way and to demonstrate that love and respect are not exclusive.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

The shark had never begged Jonah in order to get him swallowed; Jonah's own actions took him into the shark's belly! Failure may not chase after you, but when you miss your way, you will rather go chasing failure!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Here you can easily understand the futility of ambitions and achievements, futility of success and failures, futility of wealth and possessions.

~ Girdhar Joshi

As it was, she always did whatever occurred to her, which was, admittedly, not difficult for someone in her position, coming from a background where rick of failure was minimal; in fact, you had to work hard to fail in her world.

~ Hanif Kureishi

It is good to stay in a peaceful poverty than to stay in a painful wealth.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Sometimes while waiting for God's promises to come to pass, we messed up things and go into so many troubles, but God’s mercy has never failed in bringing us out of them all.

~ Bamigboye Olurotimi

One by one they are being picked off around him: in his small circle of colleagues the ratio slowly grows top-heavy, more ghosts, more each winter, and fewer living... and with each one, he thinks he feels patterns on his cortex going dark, settling to sleep forever, parts of whoever he's been losing all definition, reverting to dumb chemistry...

~ Thomas Pynchon

No man has been able to do everything he wants without experiencing failures first.

~ Dave Shepp

Our failures make us who we are; they build our character, we are defined by what we do with them, and how we respond to adversity. Without failure there is no growth, no striving for better, no adjusting, or dusting yourself off to try again.

~ J.w. Lord

Growth comes in the aftermath of failure, not wild success.

~ Mary E. Demuth

Without experience, how will you know what exist?

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The only failure is giving up.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If you dare try, you will succeed.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Keep your hope in the Lord.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Success is deliberate! Excellence is intentional! Victory comes out of struggles... Winners win because they played a role... Get busy now!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Believe it; 25 years from now or less, you will be voted for or appointed by the actions you are taking today! Guess what the vote will mean. Will it be an election for you to occupy the edifice of failure or to be the administrator in the kingdom of success? Rise up and optimize your potentials!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Failure generates its own majesty. Defeat becomes a panoptic stain on the soul; it creates its own all-embracing pathos. Reverses engulf us in fleshy feelings of self-pity, sorrow, and apathy. Resounding setbacks might even be subtlety attractive because it means we can give up trying. It is tempting to accept defeat, surrender to our insecurities, and admit that because of failing to accomplish one particular goal that the best part of our life was wasted. Cynically writing ourselves off as a failure, we are free to capitulate to the emptiness of our lives.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

We frequently applaud failure in theory, but the dirty little secret is that it makes all of us feel at least a little ashamed.

~ Whitney Johnson

Everybody said, Follow your heart. I did, it got broken

~ Agatha Christie

Disappointment is really just a term for our refusal to look on the bright side.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Experience every failure closely because each failure is taking you closer to your goal and preparing you to be the unbeatable.

~ Mayur Ramgir

It is quite possible that, even if you set the most relevant, realistic goals, you may not achieve them in the way or the time you wanted to. Life may throw something unexpected in your path, which stops you from achieving what you want, when you want. This is not failure. Feeling like you have failed is bound to lead to low mood, and can often come about if things haven't quite gone according to plan. However, the best thing to do is to draw a mental line under the experience, learn from what has happened and try again. As long as you are still trying, you are working towards your long-term aims; and as long as you are doing that, you are never truly failing.

~ Anna Barnes

Aim low and you won't be disappointed.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

Everything begins with failing. If you stop to fail, then your failing to stop, to try and try again, and bring success.

~ Anthony Liccione

The key to success is having no qualms about failure.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

The reason people fail to reach their goals is because they give up too early. They don't understand that most successes are built upon foundations of multiple attempts.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

If this constant sliding and hiding of meaning were true of conscious life, then we would of course never be able to speak coherently at all. If the whole of language were present to me when I spoke, then I would not be able to articulate anything at all. The ego, or consciousness, can therefore only work by repressing this turbulent activity, provisionally nailing down words on to meanings. Every now and then a word from the unconscious which I do not want insinuates itself into my discourse, and this is the famous Freudian slip of the tongue or parapraxis. But for Lacan all our discourse is in a sense a slip of the tongue: if the process of language is as slippery and ambiguous as he suggests, we can never mean precisely what we say and never say precisely what we mean. Meaning is always in some sense an approximation, a near-miss, a part-failure, mixing non-sense and non-communication into sense and dialogue.

~ Terry Eagleton

My first strike was marrying a guy without a college degree. My second and third were getting pregnant. I suppose that when I didn't go on to become the next Gloria Allred, she was justified in counting me a failure. And I suppose that until now, I was justified in thinking that I wasn't one.

~ Jodi Picoult

It does not matter what I believe. The past is done. Hope is irrelevant. We measure success and failure in history with a cost of lives. Penicillin saved people, and the world wars exterminated them. Success and failure. Feelings, regrets, the point where they knew they made mistakes...it is interesting but unfortunately, irrelevant. Did they go to their death and grieve for what they did? Did the makers of the atomic bomb grieve for the destruction they dedicated their lives towards creating? Who cares? They did it. Whether they knew what they were creating, or whether they talked themselves into believing it was for the best, the glory of history is being able to view it in black-and-white. However honorable one's initial intention, a villain will always be a villain.

~ Caroline Hanson

Of course, we are drawn to teachers who unconsciously mirror our own psychology. None of us are clean. We all make mistakes. It's the repetition of those mistakes and the refusal to look at them that compound the suffering and assure their continuation.

~ Natalie Goldberg

No one escapes suffering. Everyone goes through tough times. Suffering is a part of our human condition and cannot be avoided. Setbacks, failures, pain, suffering, and hardships are all a part of life, but whether we are able to find peace within the storm depends on our resilience and perseverance. Whenever one of our children tells us that they don’t want to fail at something, we remind them that there will be times in their life when they will fail, but it’s how they come through it that matters. If we choose to focus on the negative, the failure itself, the darkness will oppress and consume us. Eventually it will destroy a person. We need to embrace the fact that we’re human and our lives will be filled with suffering and hardship, but we have the ultimate hope and victory in Our Lord.

~ Karen Santorum

Rather than idolizing perfection, we must choose to cherish what is real. To truly live is to love deeply, to get messy, to sometimes get hurt, and to stumble and fall. It is worth it. The alternative of living a life barren of these things in the pursuit of perfection would be tragically uninteresting.

~ Ann Brasco

The more we can embrace failure, the more we will be able to open to it and the more confident and resilient we will become.

~ Karen Kimsey-House