Failure Quotes

If your will to win is greater than fear of failure.. then only you will win.

~ Vikrmn

She felt as if she had somehow failed him and herself by allowing his mother’s behavior to upset her. She should be above it; she should shrug it off as the ranting of a village woman; she should not keep thinking of all the retorts she could have made instead of just standing mutely in that kitchen. But she was upset, and made even more so by Odenigbo's expression, as if he could not believe she was not quite as high-minded as he had thought.

~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

For you to be successful, sacrifices must be made. It's better that they are made by others but failing that, you'll have to make them yourself.Rita Mae Brown

~ Brigitta Moon

Never let failure discourage you. Every time you get to the base of a mountain (literal or metaphorical), you're presented with a new opportunity to challenge yourself, to push your limits beyond what you thought possible, to learn from climbers on the trail ahead of you, and to take in some amazing views. Your performance on the mountain you climbed last week or last month or last year doesn't matter - because it's all about what you are doing right now.

~ Alison Levine

Any defensiveness is a sign of failure. You can't move forward if you are defensive.

~ Bryant Mcgill

They say the best laid plans often go a lie, Because no matter how detailed the preparation, A plan will always have a weak point and there will always be those looking to exploit it. To do into the plan failure and the perpetrator along with it.

~ Emily Thorne

When a million little things go right, that’s called success. Failure functions as the great leveler. When things don’t go as planned, it’s humbling. It’s important to make mistakes along the way, or we would be impossible to live with.

~ Judy Frankel

We all make mistakes. It is important to learn from them and just as important to know when to move on.

~ Gina Varamo

Once you discover that failure is survivable, your fear of it subsides. Failure is not opposite to success, just part of its process.

~ T Jay Taylor

Failure leads to a decrease in motivation only when it is accepted as failure. Failure leads students to improve when they see it is a stepping stone on the road to success.

~ Sang H. Kim

We are Darwin’s confetti. Some of us fall on bare rock. No matter how good you are, you can fail spectacularly. Just because you were at the wrong place at the wrong time. Or just because of some fatal flaw. Nothing to do with talent.

~ Ingela Bohm

Failure in and of itself is not a bad thing. But failing to learn from it is inexcusable.

~ Alison Levine

When failing spectacularly the trick is to employ an inverted Schadenfreude. Take ownership of your misfortune.

~ Dean Cavanagh

I’ve written for the waste basket so often that we’ve become friends. He writes too, but it’s mostly garbage.

~ Ryan Lilly

Foe unvanquished, I will not perish in the field; I will be born again to take up the halberd seven more times.

~ Kuribayashi Tadamichi

Failures or successes are not as important as the willingness to risk.

~ Darryl Webb

When you fail, you can resist correction or cooperate in your recovery and future success.

~ David P. Ingerson

Jumping from failure to failure with undiminished enthusiasm is the big secret to success.

~ Savas Dimopoulos

DBT's catchphrase of developing a life worth living means you're not just surviving; rather, you have good reasons for living. I'm also getting better at keeping another dialectic in mind: On the one hand, the disorder decimates all relationships and social functions, so you're basically wandering in the wasteland of your own failure, and yet you have to keep walking through it, gathering the small bits of life that can eventually go into creating a life worth living. To be in the desolate badlands while envisioning the lush tropics without being totally triggered again isn't easy, especially when life seems so effortless for everyone else.

~ Kiera Van Gelder

I haven't failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that don't work.

~ Thomas Jefferson

If you were to believe that you would've never have tried anything new, when you don't you will only master failure.

~ Peter Abbasova

I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

~ George S. Patton Jr.

From a very early age, the message is drilled into our heads: Failure is bad; failure means you didn’t study or prepare; failure means you slacked off or—worse!—aren’t smart enough to begin with. Thus, failure is something to be ashamed of.

~ Ed Catmull

The goal, then, is to uncouple fear and failure—to create an environment in which making mistakes doesn’t strike terror into your employees’ hearts.

~ Ed Catmull

We don't have to always win,Sometimes we need to be deprived by others to improve ourselves.

~ Grace

What's knocking on your door...opportunities to succeed or opportunities to fail? Times may get tough, life may not be fair, but never allow fleeting disappointments to corrupt your attitude and your plans for the future. Self-pity is a destructive force that will eat away at every opportunity for success. If your determination to succeed is where it needs to be...failure never makes it to your doorstep. ~Jason Versey

~ Jason Versey

Success doesn’t happen overnight and neither does failure. Both are byproducts of personal choices and conscious decisions we make on a daily basis. The truth is…when it comes to our relationships, our occupations and spiritual lives, we alone determine whether we fail or succeed by what we repeatedly do.

~ Jason Versey

On hindsight every failure is the best medicine, bitter but effective

~ Aporva Kala

Dear George, remember no man is a failure who has friends.

~ It's A Wonderful Life

I've failed in communication...and so I've learned to have open and honest dialogue at the opportune, and appropriate time.I've failed in relationships...and so I've learned to appreciate the people in my life, and to treat them with kindness.I've failed in paying bills...and so I've learned to properly and effectively manage my time, my talent and my resources.I've failed in work or business ventures...and so I've learned to be more prudent with planning, and more efficient in execution.I've failed in dodging a ball...and so I've learned to anticipate danger and to protect myself.Live, Love, Learn, and Be Well.

~ Katrena Patterson

...no matter how much success you may experience in life, your eventual story - no offence intended - will be one of failure. Your bodily organs will fail, and you'll die.

~ Oliver Burkeman

Don't let success lead to arrogance and failure lead to criticism.

~ Arlin Sailesh Kapadia

As a man, I was a failure. A pathetic teacher lusting after Catholic school girls in short skirts. As a monster, I'm superb. It's comforting to know my place in the world.

~ Thomm Quackenbush

I've failed in communication...and so I've learned to have open and honest dialogue at the opportune, and appropriate time.I've failed in relationships...and so I've learned to appreciate the people in my life, and to treat them with kindness.I've failed in paying bills...and so I've learned to properly and effectively manage my time, my talent and my resources.I've failed in work or business ventures...and so I've learned to be more prudent with planning, and more efficient in execution.I've failed in dodging a ball...and so I've learned to anticipate danger and to protect myself.I don't mind acknowledging my failures, because they've played a valuable part to my successes.Live, Love, Learn, and Be Well.

~ Katrena Patterson

Okay, we didn’t work, and allmemories to tell you the truth aren’t good.But sometimes there were good times.Love was good. I loved your crooked sleepbeside me and never dreamed afraid.There should be stars for great warslike ours.

~ Sandra Cisneros

But all you see is the crap. So you don't have to believe in anything. So you'll have an excuse to fail.

~ Lauren Oliver

When you are gunning to be like other people, you are foolishly repeating their mistakes, and the worst of it all is that you can't even correct yours.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

What a queer gamble our existence is. We decide to do A instead of B and then the two roads diverge utterly and may lead in the end to heaven and to hell. Only later one sees how much and how awfully the fates differ. Yet what were the reasons for the choice? They may have been forgotten. Did one know what one was choosing? Certainly not.

~ Iris Murdoch

The greatest happiness of life was to stand at the difficult border between success and failure.

~ Eiji Yoshikawa

Never give up your right to be wrong, and be sure to give others that right too.

~ Tim Fargo