Failure Quotes

Failure is not the final fall. The will to rise when you fall is fortitude to success.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

It is much more enjoyable to love success than to hate failure.

~ Russell Anthony Gibbs

There is no such thing as a failed test. You will learn every time you challenge yourself.

~ Marsha Blackburn

Success is no mystery, but simply the result of consistently applying some basic principles. The reverse is just as true: Failure is simply a result of making a few mistakes repeatedly. All of this might sound too simplistic, but the fact is that most truths are very simple. I'm not saying they are easy, but they certainly are simple.

~ Shiv Khera

Grade is only a number.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Failure only happens when you lose your willpower to continue trying...If we let the obstacles get the best of us then it was our choice to fail, not fate.

~ Lindsey Rietzsch

As for your failures - stop calling them failures. Refer to them as experiences. That's all they really are - just experiences.

~ Lindsey Rietzsch

If we fail to learn from our trials and errors then we truly fail.

~ Lindsey Rietzsch

The Lord knows all - His timing and reasoning is perfect. If we really trust Him, then we no longer see our failures as a bad thing. We will see them as an answer to our prayers even if we don't understand how in the moment.

~ Lindsey Rietzsch

I think it must be one of those things where no one’s wrong and everybody loses.

~ Elizabeth Langston

Most people do not want much. All they want is to be envied by most people.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure all your life.

~ John W. Gardner

Respect people who never afraid of failure and working hard to achieve goal. But I respect more those who support them in this situation.

~ Gargi Vyas

Failure is temporary, but defeat is permanent.

~ Tom Panaggio

Wake up call may be a disastrous failure, if it results in a life change, the failure is worth the suffering

~ Faisal Khosa

Today’s experience prepares you for better tomorrow.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Today’s experience prepares you for a better tomorrow.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Of course I don’t want to get knocked down. But the single and sole solution to that fear is to not go anywhere where I can be knocked down. And is that not already being knocked down?

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

You're not who he expected you to be, that doesn't mean you aren't somebody. Nor are you perfect. Stop using every mistake you make as an excuse to fail completely.

~ Robin Hobb

The pain of failure had led me to understand that technical excellence was a moral requirement.

~ Paul Kalanithi

. . . failure is also the stern parent of truth. (p525)

~ Franz Werfel

If you fail at something, it means you have not mastered the art. With persistence practice, you will be master and eventually succeed.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Failure is only an experience. We learn from trials and errors.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The greatest figures in history are never the ones who avoid failure, but those who march chin-up through countless failures, one after the next, until they come upon the occasional victory.

~ William Ritter

You may face many disappointments. But don’t lose hope.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

There were the signed, spiral-bound Spirit-in-the-Woods yearbooks from three summers in a row and the aerial photograph of everyone at camp the second summer. In it, Ethan's feet were planted on Jule's head, and Jule's feet were planted on Goodman's head, and so on and so on. And didn't it always go like that-body parts not quite lining up the way you wanted them to, all of it a little bit off, as if the world itself were an animated sequence of longing and envy and self-hatred and grandiosity and failure and success, a strange and endless cartoon loop that you couldn't stop watching, because, despite all you knew by now, it was still so interesting.

~ Meg Wolitzer

Your failure is measured by your aspirations. Aspire not, and you cannot fail. Columbus died in chains. Joan or Arc was burned at the stake. Let us all live snugly -- and life will soon be little more than a thick, gelatinous stream of comfortability and ignorance.

~ Myles Connolly

The best place to look at failure is in the rear-view mirror.

~ Khang Kijarro Nguyen

Persevering is not often simply a matter of working hard and refusing to quit; often, by trying again, failing again, and failing better, we inadvertently place ourselves in the way of luck.

~ Karen Karbo

Your qualifications, your CV, are not your life, though you will meet many people of my age and older who confuse the two.

~ J.k. Rowling

When a person works towards a goal, he or she immediately creates two possible scenarios or outcomes; namely success and failure.

~ Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

There's no point in being an unhappy success, and there's not much sense in being a happy failure either.

~ Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

There is no faster way to harden my determination than to assume I will fail at it.

~ Marie Brennan

Ask others what they think of your ideas and plans – Now, this one is the most interesting way of failing.

~ Abhishek Ratna

Love is such a powerful subject matter because it comes in so many different shapes and sizes. It's about timing, fate, failure, redemption.

~ Jim Sturgess

Failing is great! Isn't it? I mean, it sets you free and, after all, failures are the pillars of success. So, you must fail!

~ Abhishek Ratna

Our modern day, hyper-rat-race culture often leads us to mistakenly confuse'busy' for 'success'. The truth of the matter is that if you're constantly having to tell people how busy you are and how overwhelmed with work or stressed you are, what you're really telling them is that you can't cope with what's on your plate. You're ‘failing’.

~ Oli Anderson

Just because we failed once doesn't mean we should stop trying

~ Veronica Rossi

I've known a lot of alleged failures in my time and many of them, in losing what the world has always considered success, have achieved in facing up to failure, more than they ever achieved when they were considered successful.

~ Faith Baldwin

Well they were going to have to do a whole lot better than this if they wanted us Creeds to feel bad. If they thought they could hurt me or dad just by messing with my head at a tryout and cutting me from the team they had another thing coming. If there is one thing we Creeds knew how to succeed at, it was failure.

~ Perry Moore