Failure Quotes

A principled person’s greatest disappointment will always be his or her own failures to respond to setbacks in a dynamic and positive way.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Impossible” is subjective

~ Mayur Ramgir

Failing may not necessarily mean you're losing out - it may be your defining moment. So, dare to fail forward!

~ Olawale Daniel

But regret is the thing we should fear most. Failure is an answer. Rejection is an answer. Regret is an eternal question you will never have the answer to.

~ Trevor Noah

They may have told you that you are useless but I am here to give you a better report about you: You are not a mistake. You have the potential to do what you were born to do. Yes, you are not a failure! Know that God values you and He is on your side.

~ D.s. Mashego

The real promise in too many promises is a promise that I’m going to be disappointed.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Only you are your own successor or lead to your own failure. It is how you learn from your experiences and mistakes. If you keep making the same mistakes, it is you and you alone can take the blame. Today's mistakes can be Tomorrow's lessons.

~ Rosemarie J. Alvarez

Successful people will declare that their failures have been the foundation for their success.

~ Kevin Abdulrahman

The reason placing blame repeatedly fails to work is that I repeatedly place it on everyone else instead of where it actually belongs.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

If you're trying to do something new, you may feel uncomfortable with the idea of starting, or you may worry that your idea won't be accepted by everyone. One way to 'get over it' is to learn to become comfortable with failure.

~ Chris Guillebeau

But I still state unhesitatingly, that for pure, vacillating stupidity, for superb incompetence to command, for ignorance combined with bad judgment --in short, for the true talent for catastrophe -- Elphy Bey stood alone. Others abide our question, but Elphy outshines them all as the greatest military idiot of our own or any other day.Only he could have permitted the First Afghan War and let it develop to such ruinous defeat. It was not easy: he started with a good army, a secure position, some excellent officers, a disorganized enemy, and repeated opportunities to save the situation. But Elphy, with the touch of true genius, swept aside these obstacles with unerring precision, and out of order wrought complete chaos. We shall not, with luck, look upon his like again.

~ George Macdonald Fraser

All of us learned how to walk by failing.

~ J.r. Rim

If you can tolerate the humiliation and helplessness and admit that you're an out-of-control fuckup, it frees you from expectations that you can't possibly meet, promises you can't keep, and appearances you can't maintain; it liberates you from the ensuring cycle of endless failure.

~ Michael Bennett

The threat of failure shouldn't kill the fun of dreaming.

~ J.c. Lillis

The only real sadness, the only real failure, the only great tragedy in life, is not to become a saint.

~ Léon Bloy

Out of love and desire to protect our children's self-esteem, we have bulldozed every uncomfortable bump and obstacle out of the way, clearing the manicured path we hoped would lead to success and happiness. Unfortunately, in doing so we have deprived our children of the most important lessons of childhood. The setbacks, mistakes, miscalculations, and failures we have shoved out of our children's way are the very experiences that teach them how to be resourceful, persistent, innovative and resilient citizens of this world.

~ Jessica Lahey

But I was not good enough. You should understand this about me—I am not a hero; not one to tap unknown reserves of courage; not one to rise to circumstance. I am the understudy who chokes on his lines when he is forced onto the stage. I am never, ever good enough.

~ Dexter Palmer

If the only thing I did for the rest of my life was treat others kindly, file manila folders, and sit on the porch watching the grass grow it would be enough. It had to be. I did the math. The number of people who actually achieve a significant legacy is trifling compared to the vast number who go from birth to death living relatively unremarkable lives (at least on the surface). And maybe that wasn't the failure I'd been conditioned to believe. Maybe there was something to be said in praise of an outwardly unremarkable life. Maybe there were deep everyday forms of magic that had nothing to do with profound acomplishments or a Twitter feed that resonated down through the ages.

~ Clara Bensen

Better to lose with the right team than to win with the wrong team.

~ Ogwo David Emenike

On the road to nowhere there are many people who lack the vision to get you anywhere.

~ Johnnie Dent Jr.

Failure is a discovery, through it we get to know what we can rise from.

~ Kabelo Mabona

Testing the wrong person can prove a massive failure for the antagonist.

~ Carlos Wallace

Most of my failures can be ascribed to the fact that I chose that which was ‘easy’ over that which was ‘right’. And while it’s ‘right’ to admit this to myself, it isn’t ‘easy.’ So, which choice am I going to make this time?

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

It was the same old question, whether a declaration of purpose might protect you from failure.

~ Emily Witt

Most people fail in life because they were not prepared for the opportunities when they appeared.

~ Orrin Woodward

I Failed My Way To Success.

~ Thomas Edison

Resilience is built from real hardship and cannot be bought or manufactured.

~ Julie Lythcott-Haims

Dreaming of the life we want has always been easier than working for it.

~ Auliq Ice

We are some combination of strengths and weaknesses, virtues and less-than-virtuous inclinations. Greed, selfishness and pride are often co-conspirators planning their return just beyond the surface of our consciousness.

~ Auliq Ice

Believe me, Michael:Those who flee from the past will always lose the race.I know this from experience. When you reach your goal,Your imagined paradise of success and grandeur,You will find your past failures waiting there to greet you.

~ T.s. Eliot

She lashed herself with every failing she could think of, then every regret, and fell to the ground, sobbing.

~ Suzie Wilde

The word failure is imperfect. Once we begin to transform it, it ceases to be that any longer. The term is always slipping off the edges of our vision, not simply because it's hard to see without wincing, but because once we are ready to talk about it, we often call the event something else--a learning experience, a trial, a reinvention--no longer the static concept of failure.

~ Sarah Lewis

Because of the past, so many people are living in the past! No one is free from the past, but we are free to choose to move from the past into the present or stay in the past, though we live in the present!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Failure is an opportunity to rise higher than before.

~ Edwin Dearborn

Fail hard, fail fast and fail often is the only way to get involved with real innovation in this fast changing world. Instead, most companies are trying to prevent failure at all cost, which makes them very unadaptive and the failures very expensive.

~ Danny Mekić

I tell you the truth, so many people failed to do what they could have done because of the bitter things that happened in the past.

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

I worry about setting myself up to fail, about letting people down. If I don’t try for a better life, then I don’t have to worry about disappointing anybody. […] You’d be disappointing yourself, though, wouldn’t you, by not taking the chance?

~ Brooke Mckinley

How does it feel to be helpless, Led?To depend on something that fails you?There's no more running from who you are; no one to hold you together anymore.You're alone now--The ghost of Tokyo has come for you all.

~ Rick Remender

Mistakes don’t make you a failure, but beating yourself up makes you feel like one.

~ Frank Sonnenberg

Nor should failure be considered a total loss.

~ Steven D. Levitt