Failure Quotes

To buy excuses, a person must sell his dream.

~ Orrin Woodward

You won't lose anything admitting that you've failed or you are struggling just remember not to dwell on that reality.

~ Unarine Ramaru

Sometimes the difference between success and failure is simply the degree to which you crave one over the other.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Had I really succeeded at anything else, I might never have found the determination to succeed in the one arena where I believed I truly belonged.

~ J.k. Rowling

I think this was a nice idea we had in this country and a nice landscape to experiment with. But I think there comes a time in almost any experimentation or idea, where you have to evaluate it, maybe our time has come. In the context of the real world, not just the American world but all around, we haven't done too well. We are not a very good advertisement for the idea we represented. If you lose one wheel of the car, you might be able to get to the side of the road, and some freaks can make it on two, but if you lose three, man, you're in serious trouble. I think we've lost three.

~ Hunter S. Thompson

-to me, the future doesn't seem real. It's just this magical place where I can put my responsibilities so that I don't have to be scared while hurtling toward failure at right hundred miles per hour.

~ Allie Brosh

One sure path to failure is the readiness to blame everyone else for your misfortune.

~ Felix Bamirin

No matter how challenging things get, never stop believing in yourself. Self-doubt is nothing but a highway to failure.

~ Hafiz

Failure gave me an inner security that I had never attained by passing examinations. Failure taught me things about myself that I could have learned no other way. I discovered that I had a strong will, and more discipline than I had suspected; I also found out that I had friends whose value was truly above the price of rubies.

~ J.k. Rowling

We have all encountered some failures in our life, but some people became failures because they perceived theirs to be permanent.

~ Hafiz

I’ve often said a man’s character is not judged after he celebrates a victory, but by what he does when his back is against the wall. So no matter how great the setback, how severe the failure, you never give up.

~ John Cena

This is kind of hard to understand, but sometimes you can try so hard at something.Sometimes you can be so prepared, and still fail.

~ John Cena

And I will stop trying to fall in love again, and keep it a secret. It never works out anyway

~ Ed Sheeran

The artist's greatest creation beganthe night he washed his memory of his failuresrubbed opium on his lipsdrank the wine that women offered himand lay down and wept.

~ Roman Payne

What if there was something essentially wrong with Claude Sylvanshine that wasn't wrong with other people? What if he was simple ill-suited, the way some people are born without limbs or certain organs? The neurology of failure. What if he was simply born and destined to live in the shadow of Total Fear and Despair, and all his so-called activities were pathetic attempts to distract him from the inevitable?

~ David Foster Wallace

Somewhere in this latest humiliation there was a lesson in self-reliance. He'd failed so completely that he'd become his own man again.

~ Stewart O'nan

But this element of failure is a very condition of his life; one can never dream of eliminating it without immediately dreaming of death. This does not mean that one should consent to failure, but rather one must consent to struggle against it without respite.

~ Simone De Beauvoir

You can only arrive at mastery by practicing the techniques you have learned, facing challenges and apprehending them, using to the fullest the tools you have been taught, until they shatter in your hands and you are left in the midst of wreckage absolute... I cannot create masters. I have never known how to create masters. Go, then, and fail... You have been shaped into something that may emerge from the wreckage, determined to remake your Art. I cannot create masters, but if you had not been taught, your chances would be less. The higher road begins after the Art seems to fail you; though the reality will be that it was you who failed your Art.

~ Eliezer Yudkowsky

maybe in some cases, people see us fall and crack, see us as a failure. We gotta live with it, i live by our own code we shouldn't be ashamed if we fall, for every fall we get up and pick up ourselves a larger chance we win the next time because we learned.

~ Jinnuljr.

When the past comes knocking, don't answer. It has nothing new to tell you.

~ Auliq Ice

Fear and failure, they go hand in hand. They’re like dance partners with great rhythm.

~ Hannah Brencher

What is failure to a person who is not afraid to learn from it and try again?

~ Hafiz

Failures are stepping stone of success, but it becomes stepping stone when we accept it with whole heart...

~ Amit Aarav

Failure to a positively programmed mind is nothing but an opportunity to carefully try again with a more strategic approach.

~ Hafiz

Keep your head up in failure, and your head down in success.

~ Jerry Seinfeld

If you learn from every mistake, you never fail at anything.

~ Donald L. Hicks

Only victory should tell you that you have failed long enough.

~ Moffat Machingura

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure...it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

~ Robert Schuller

At the end of the day, you are solely responsible for your success and your failure. And the sooner you realize that, you accept that, and integrate that into your work ethic, you will start being successful. As long as you blame others for the reason you aren't where you want to be, you will always be a failure.

~ Erin Cummings

So when someone would love to see you fail, forgive them, and draw upon that motivation to succeed.

~ Donald L. Hicks

You can’t let the fear of failure keep you from taking the risks that you know are the right ones to take.

~ S. Usher Evans

Fear, when blended with failure, distills into a deadly brew.

~ Thomas Ligotti

But if I've learned anything about the world of grace, it's that failure is always a chance for a do-over.

~ Brennan Manning

Just because many have tried and failed, doesn't make the task impossible.

~ Hafiz

Failure is only an option, so is success. Please choose wisely.

~ Hafiz

I am this month one whole year older than I was this time twelve-month; and having got, as you perceive, almost into the middle of my fourth volume—and no farther than to my first day's life—'tis demonstrative that I have three hundred and sixty-four days more life to write just now, than when I first set out; so that instead of advancing, as a common writer, in my work with what I have been doing at it—on the contrary, I am just thrown so many volumes back—

~ Laurence Sterne

Life is full of unfairness but you'll have to deal with it, as long as you're able to take a breath.

~ Auliq Ice

Wishes can be harmful to us when they overcome patience.

~ Auliq Ice

All communication is a sign of failure. If everybody is pleased with the situation, then there is no need for communication.

~ Peter Gärdenfors

To a materialist life is nothing but a complex self-sustaining pattern, easily disrupted and gone when destroyed.

~ Auliq Ice