Failure Quotes

There is nothing wrong with being wrong.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Ignore failure. Try anew until you succeed.

~ Tim Fargo

Forget seizing the moment. Seize the opportunity.

~ Tim Fargo

We don't punish the ones who fail. They just-don't go on

~ Orson Scott Card

Schools don't really allow failure and yet it's part of any endeavour, not just writing.

~ Roddy Doyle

Without doing one cannot fail. But one cannot succeed either.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Shouldering the blame for failure and conferring credit where it is due comes rarely to most.

~ Andy Paula

Every time we cheer the downfall of a powerful woman, we're giving ourselves the message that power is bad and we shouldn't desire it. Every time we revel in a beautiful woman's aging or weight gain, we reinforce the idea that we, too, are less valuable if we are old or overweight. Every time we gloat over a woman's loss of a husband to a younger, prettier rival, we are reminding ourselves that our own relationship is unstable, that someday our man, too, will move on to greener pastures.

~ Susan Shapiro Barash

The fear of failure is a liability.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Risky is not the same as crazy. Failing is not the same as being worthless.

~ Alyson Hagy

Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

~ Samuel Mcchord Crothers

In every failure, there's the seed to even greater success. However, people waste their time complaining, instead of looking for the seed among the rubble of what was.

~ Mauricio Chaves Mesén

My friend Richard Carrion, the CEO of Puerto Rico’s top bank, once shared a line with me that I’ll never forget: “Robin, nothing fails like success.” Powerful thought. Your business is most vulnerable when it’s most successful. Success actually breeds complacency, inefficiency and – worst of all – arrogance. Whenever I share this point with a roomful of CEOs, every one of them nods their head at this one. Please let me give you a real-world example from my own life.

~ Robin S. Sharma

Haters are those, that never were given any chances, that blew their chances, or that never took the chance.

~ Anthony Liccione

Because human nature never changes.

~ Orson Scott Card

What we have not chosen we cannot consider either to our merit or our failure.

~ Milan Kundera

One of Obama’s greatest failures will be his legacy of making millions completely dependent on government handouts, not work....So sad.

~ Ziad K. Abdelnour

Employment is the exploitation of the employer’s courage, and, the employed’s fear of failure.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Obstacles are weak walls without foundations; if you fear them, they will defeat you. But the fact is that they are even afraid of you. So why frightened?

~ Israelmore Ayivor

A son is an unfulfilled man’s last attempt to fulfill his unfulfilled dreams.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

When you know you have unconditional love, there is no point in rebellion and no need to fear failure.

~ George W. Bush

Politeness. Being nice is what's left when you've failed at everything else.

~ Diane Setterfield

You’re thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn’t at all. Failure is a teacher – a harsh one, perhaps, but the best. You say you have a desk full of rejected manuscripts? That’s great! Every one of those manuscripts was rejected for a reason. Have you pulled them to pieces looking for that reason? You’ve got to put failure to work for you. That’s where you’ll find success. On the far side of failure.

~ Arthur Gordon

A worthy failure is more valuable than a mediocre success.

~ Kuo Pao Kun

To fail, try to please your critics. To please your critics, try to fail.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Great leadership produces great success. Weak leadership produces failure.

~ Ellen J. Barrier

Miracles' rely on their observer’s ignorance. 'Perfection' relies on the observer’s failure to notice the observed’s defects.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

A natural response when people feel overwhelmed is to retreat into various forms of passivity. If we don’t try too much in life, if we limit our circle of action, we can give ourselves the illusion of control. The less we attempt, the less chances of failure. If we can make it look like we are not really responsible for our fate, for what happens to us in life, then our apparent powerlessness is more palatable.

~ Robert Greene

By the time I was fourteen the nail in my wall would no longer support the weight of the rejection slips impaled upon it. I replaced the nail with a spike and went on writing.

~ Stephen King

When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important. It's hard to understand failure when you're going through it, but in the grand scheme of things it's good to fall down—not because you're drunk and not near stairs.

~ Ellen Degeneres

Eyes narrowed, Judd stared at the structure as if at a mortal enemy. Slapping his fellow lieutenant on the shoulder, Riaz said, Don't even think about it. A pissed-off telekinetic versus the complex metal pylons and tubes of the jungle gym- the results would not be pretty.Judd glanced at his watch. I'll destroy it later.

~ Nalini Singh

And as we should all know by now, anytime you predict failure you have an excellent chance of being right.

~ Jeff Lindsay

It is a misfortune to be in the presence of a writer, even a failed writer, to be seen by him, be his passing study and remain in his corrupt memory. It is like the insult of a corpse on the road by a war photographer.

~ Manu Joseph

We don't have time for such uncertainty because it reliably breeds indecision, and indecision is one of the mothers of failure.

~ Dean Koontz

Failure is not an option. It just happens all the time. Like, all the time.

~ Craig Benzine

It’s true that if your religion failed to deliver a miracle, that a human sacrifice would certainly follow.Ah...quite. You are a man of acute insight.That’s not insight. That’s a personal guarantee.

~ Lois Mcmaster Bujold

In my inmost heart I believed that I could succeed where others failed, and now I had the opportunity to test myself.

~ Arthur Conan Doyle

The definition of brilliance is redoing failures different each time and expecting successful results.

~ Carl Henegan

Since when is failure more appealing? Never give up.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

The things that I regret in my life are not errors of judgement but failures of feeling.

~ Jeanette Winterson