Failure Quotes

Humans are really stupid. If we don't fall and get hurt, we won't learn our lesson. Just like a kid repeatedly falling.No matter how many times we fail, or how many times we've fallen. Humans will stand once again, smiling ruefully at our grazed knees before continuing onwards. This time we will not run from our pain.

~ Yuuri Eda

I do not fear failure. I only fear the slowing up of the engine inside of me which is pounding, saying, Keep going, someone must be on top, why not you?

~ George S. Patton Jr.

That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.

~ A. Whitney Brown

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

~ Colin Powell

No one knows, and few conceive, the agony of mind that I have suffered from the time that I was made by circumstances, and not by my volition, a candidate for the Presidency till I was dismissed from that station by the failure of my election.

~ John Quincy Adams

There is treasure hidden beneath the entire land, but the problem is people are unwilling to dig it out.

~ Waqar Masood

Recognize your failures when they happen but don’t dwell on them. Instead, focus on the successes you have had in your life. If you’ve done it once, you can do it again. Build on that. Letting thoughts of past failures creep into your mindset are nothing but dream killing distractions.

~ Jason Versey

To be defeated is only a fable in which one may tell of oneself. I will try and I will try again, though never shall I call it failure. I am simply one step closer to thy truth.

~ Tania Elizabeth

The capacity to surmount failure without being discouraged is the chief asset of every person who attains outstanding success in any calling.

~ Napoleon Hill

The successes and failures of yesterday are gone, today is a new day.

~ Noel Dejesus

Simplicity takes time, patience & practice. Complexity offers too many excuses for failure

~ Dean Cavanagh

The idea of practicing love is deeply appealing to me, because built right in is an acceptance of imperfection. There is an acknowledgment to myself that I am going to mess this up, an understanding that there is room to grow. Each of my failures just affirms the truth that we are all starting over and rising again.

~ Anna White

And to think of this great country in danger of being dominated by people ignorant enough to take a few ancient Babylonian legends as the canons of modern culture. Our scientific men are paying for their failure to speak out earlier. There is no use now talking evolution to these people. Their ears are stuffed with Genesis.

~ Luther Burbank

Me, I say too much optimism will get you killed.

~ Brom

Dreams aren't only an illusion to put you into a subconsciously pleasurable state of mind for the time being, but also a pathway to gain complete contentment.

~ Mehek Bassi

Yet so often it seems that victory eludes us. It is when our self-confidence is finally destroyed and is replaced with dependence upon God that we have victory.

~ K.p. Yohannan

Predictions of failure have never stopped those whose ambitions are driven by their unwavering vision.

~ Nabil N. Jamal

Failure is the ultimate motivator, the supreme teacher, and the definitive guarantee of life. Failure is what makes success so addictive.

~ Noel Dejesus

God has provided you with many avenues for obtaining wisdom and averting failure. Resist your inclination to accept advice with easy solutions and to reject help that requires a more difficult path.

~ Jim George

When we go to the fair in disguise, we never win at archery or at singlestick. We do get some nice compliments on our disguises, but no more than that.

~ Peter S. Beagle

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

~ Hafiz

Get out of failure-o-phobia to enjoy success-o-mania.

~ Prerak Trivedi

Without knowing failure how can we know success?

~ Nabil N. Jamal

Success is not an end in itself. It should be a means to an end - happiness. If success does not lead to happiness, it is called failure.

~ Murad S. Shah

The Fed’s policies have been an unqualified success for financiers and an abject failure for the bottom 99.5% who have to work for a living.

~ Ziad K. Abdelnour

If you adjust first time, compromise second time, failure is what you will get third time.

~ Amit Kalantri

Within a month he knew that his marriage was a failure, within a year he stopped hoping that it would improve.

~ John Williams

There is only one reason that you ever fail at anything...and that is because you eventually change your mind. That's it!...anything and everything you have ever decided to do, you have succeeded, or will succeed, at doing.

~ Victor L. Wooten

To find the courage to keep writing after constant failure is awesomeness. Winning is eminent.

~ Sereda Aleta Dailey

The worst outcome of not trying is never getting to fail.

~ Phillip Gary Smith

She posed as being more indolent than she felt, for fear of finding herself less able than she could wish.

~ Elizabeth Bowen

We'll all be failures?Yes. I don't mean only money failures, but just sort of - of ineffectual and sad, and - oh, how can I tell you?

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

Failure Is Not Permanent, So Is The Success. So, Don't Look Down Upon People Who Are Failed While You're Succeeded. Table Can Turn Anytime. Be Gentle To Every Creation, It Ain't Cost A Thing....

~ Muhammad Imran Hasan

Stress builds character and failure breeds motivation. I guess I'm a Optimist.

~ Noel Dejesus

Ian pretended that not knowing what to do was the hard part when, somewhere inside, I think he knew that making a choice about something is when the real uncertainty begins. The more terrifying uncertainty is wanting something and not knowing how to get it. It is working toward something even though there is no sure thing. When we make choices, we open ourselves up to hard work and failure and heartbreak, so sometimes it feels easier not to know, not to choose, and not to do.

~ Meg Jay

If you employed a strategy that is not conducive to the results you are looking for, then you will not achieve the desired result. You have to understand that it’s not you that failed; it’s just that you employed the wrong strategy.

~ Julian Pencilliah

The patent system was established, I believe, to protect the lone inventor. In this it has not succeeded. … The patent system protects the institutions which favor invention.

~ Ernst Alexanderson

These are the words of a fool: I am happy to be a fool, for i won't spend my time gazing at lines difficult to decipher, while my mates are drinking with glee.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

There is no greater failure than success through wrong means

~ Nicholas C. Rossis

Colin I'm just--I'm just a failure. what if this is it? -----andI never do anything significant and I'm just a complete waste?Hassan sat up, with his hands on his knees. See, this is why you need to believe in God.

~ John Green