Failure Quotes

You should be patient to wait for what you want.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Don’t stop when you fail. Instead, use your failures to measure your level of success.

~ Kevin J. Donaldson

Failure is so much more interesting.

~ Garth Risk Hallberg

When you imagine yourself as a failure or as having insurmountable problems in your relationships or any part of your life, you think failure, act failure, and produce failure.

~ Chris Prentiss

Victory is not in winning, victory is in defeating failures.

~ Debasish Mridha

If he once failed as a father, it was a noble fail.

~ Alysia Abbott

It's important to undermine yourself and create a level of difficulty so the work doesn't come too easily. The more comfortable you get, the more money you earn, the more successful you are, the harder it is to create situations where you have to prove yourself and make yourself not just want it, but need it. The stakes should always feel high.

~ Carrie Brownstein

What better way could we teach our children the importance of learning to push forward despite failure than to openly embrace in the education system Trial and Learn as our truly only human learning process. In doing so, we eliminate the stigma of failure and view it as an important part of the process of learning.

~ Martha Char Love

When one dream dies we replace it with another.

~ Oli Anderson

The greatness of the enterprise does not always ensure success, but at least ensures glory.

~ Gertrudis Gómez De Avellaneda

Einstein...even failed physics once, but he'd never thought of giving up school to make a living.

~ Orhan Pamuk

And sometimes it doesn't matter how hard you try, how persuasive you can be, how much skill you have... you can't have everything. Sometimes you just can't win.No. Sometimes you don't win. He gets to his feet, and Red stands beside him. But I'll be damned if that's going to stop me from trying.

~ Daystar721

Don’t give up! Keep trying, your victory is certain.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

With diligent, you will master the act.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Success is a choice, a promise that you make to yourself to keep moving forward.

~ Elizabeth Bourgeret

Failing is never too early, success is never too late.

~ Paul Bamikole

Discouragement is the cancer of great things.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

We only need grace to get up, whenever we fall.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If you fail, never give up. Keep trying, you will succeed.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I think everyone fails, but there are so many kinds of failure.

~ E.m. Forster

Never say that anything is hopeless, Tristal, until it has irreparably failed. And always remember that Elamm’ may perform any action, though it may seem impossible to you.

~ Benita J. Prins

No. You stop. Stop thinking you're the son your father disowned. 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

Every individual can reach their greatest potential with enough encouragement.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

As long as we confider failure as an option, success is not going to be the only one choice.

~ Ahmed Alibage

Think as if failure is not a possibility.

~ Debasish Mridha

We learn from education, experience and people.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

While winners were fully engaged with writing some great chapters in their lives, failures were busy trying to edit their past negative experiences.

~ Hafiz

We teach our children to study hard, to strive to succeed but do we teach them that it's okay to fail? That life is about accepting yourself? That there is no stigma in seeking help? Our Indian culture is based on worshipping our parents. We grow up listening to words like respect, obedience and tradition. Can we not add the words communication, unconditional love and support to this list?I look at the WHO research. The highest rate of suicide in India is among the age group of 15 to 29. Do we even talk to our teens about this?That evening, I am standing in the balcony, sipping some coffee and looking at the sunset. The children have taken the dogs and gone down to play on the beach. I spot my son. He is standing on the sand, right at the edge of the ocean and is flying a blue kite.The kite goes high and then swings low till it almost seems to fall into the water and all I want to say to him is that soon he will see that life is just like flying a kite. Sometimes you have to leave it loose, sometimes you have to hold on tight, sometimes your kite will fly effortlessly, sometimes you will not be able to control it and even when you are struggling to keep it afloat and the string is cutting into your hand, don't let go.The wind will change in your favour once again, my son. Just don't let go..

~ Twinkle Khanna

There was no correcting past mistakes, especially since he could see no real 'mistakes' he had made. He had done the best he could, and that had proven insufficient.

~ Brandon Sanderson

We stand the risk of failure, because you refused to take risks. So life demands risks.

~ Sunday Adelaja

We need to accept that we won’t always make the right decisions, that we’ll screw up royally sometimes–understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success.

~ Arianna Huffington

So many had burned opportunities in the name of postponement, believing that another opportunity will arise. They fail to seize the spur of the moment, without thinking that maybe, that could be their last chance to actualize their long nurtured dreams. Achieving your heart desires in this century requires your alertness, diligence, and overcoming the hindrances that procrastination brings.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Weakness of skills can be overcome with strength of will.

~ Orrin Woodward

Go out and do your thing knowing that rejection and failure is an inevitable and integral part of the process to achieving your dreams.

~ Miya Yamanouchi

Failures are in the positions they are in today because they are yet to follow the footprints of those who walk, think, and breathe success.

~ Hafiz

Hugging himself, Oscar leaned against the pantry wall. For two days all he had wanted was for Caleb to come back, and now he was back and Oscar had made a mess of things: he had angered half the customers and confused the other half, and the coin boxes did not look as they should, and [rich, noble] people were complaining about him, and he couldn't look at anybody, and [redacted] was dead, and Oscar was odd.'What if he doesn't keep me?

~ Anne Ursu

I'll be living quietly in a house somewhere in the suburbs, enjoying a peaceful existence not writing the book I'm not writing now and, so as to continue not doing so, I will come up with different excuses from the ones I use now to avoid actually confronting myself. Or else I'll be interned in a poorhouse, content with my utter failure, mingling with the riffraff who believed they were geniuses when in fact they were just beggars with dreams, mixing with the anonymous mass of people who had neither the strength to triumph nor the power to turn their defeats into victories.

~ Fernando Pessoa

An event of failure has absolutely nothing to do with the possibility of one's future success.

~ Hafiz

All men and women flee from the witnesses of their wrongdoings.

~ Matthew Kelly

If you can't do it, just laugh about it instead of blushing or being embarrassed.

~ Auliq Ice