Failure Quotes

Monsieur Josserand died very quietly - a victim of his own honesty. He had lived a useless life, and he went off, worthy to the last, weary of all the petty things in life, done to death by the heartless conduct of the only human beings that he had ever loved.

~ Émile Zola

I would walk the way and accept the risks I have counted, rather accepting my failure.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

I see Jenna, smiling, chattering. And failing. When you are perfect, is there anywhere else to go?

~ Mary E. Pearson

Procrastination and excuses are sour spices that spoil the sweet taste of an effective work. They must hence, not be prompted under desire, partly because they are strictly time-stripping and also because they have no known essence.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Her cowardice had been re-branded as self-preservation, and she was grateful for it.

~ Jayne Lockwood

There is no excuse for your failure, accept it and try again.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

Failure is an opportunity.If you blame someone else,there is no end to the blame.Therefore the Masterfulfills her own obligationsand corrects her own mistakes.She does what she needs to doand demands nothing of others.

~ Lao Tzu

Resilience is not a commodity you are born with, waiting silently on tap. It is self-manufactured painstakingly over time by working through your problems and never giving up, even in the face of difficulty or failure.

~ Lorii Myers

Nothing is as empowering as real-world validation, even if it's for failure.

~ Steven Pressfield

I saw Dad's eyes widen just a fraction when he heard my voice catch. He glanced at me but quickly turned away. He didn't want me to see his reaction, but I did, and I'll never forget it. In that brief glimpse, I could see what he was thinking behind that fixed stare. There would be no grandkids, there would be no more Creed family bloodline, nothing else to look forward to. From that point on I'd become the last, most devastating disappointment in what he thought his life had added up to--one overwhelming failure.

~ Perry Moore

Many small businesses are doomed from day one, not from competition or the economy, but from the ignorance of their owners . . . their destiny is already decided because they have no idea how a business should be operated.

~ William Manchee

The moment you believe you will fail, you have already lost the battle.

~ Bianca Frazier

Think in terms of opportunities and solutions instead of problems, disappointment, and failure.

~ Lorii Myers

Fear of failure prevents you from realising your dreams of success.

~ Habeeb Akande

There are few experiences in life as painful and brutal as the failure of a small business. For a small business conceived and nurtured by its owner is like a living, breathing child. Its loss is no less traumatic than losing a loved one.

~ William Manchee

The innovator's motto is this, I succeed or I learn but I never fail.

~ Paul Sloane

If you are afraid to fail, then you are afraid to succeed. You can never succeed of you have not failed.

~ Joban Singh Bal

The award for excessive success is eternal doubt and eventual failure.So what, it's stupid to even try?No. It's unwise to hope.- Something Like Stardust

~ Genevieve Ross

If you are afraid to fail, then you are afraid to succeed.

~ Joban Singh Bal

Mind your business had been the motto of her childhood. But now that seemed like a failing in a friend.

~ Anita Diamant

A warm sunny evening, the plash and gurgle of the waves in the rock pools, the rush of the cold gin. I thought for the first time of my novel, abandoned, all these years, and I came up, unprompted, with the perfect title. Octet. Octet by Logan Mountstuart. Perhaps I will surprise them all, yet.

~ William Boyd

If you give up, you reward failure.

~ Lorii Myers

The road of life is paved with daily successes, a great number of them penny and nickle triumphs. Sadly, these little feats are often seen as worthless―even failures―because we dream of greater gain. Our greed keeps us focused on a gleaming pot of gold waiting at the end of some elusive rainbow. And, despairing a big loss, we fail to see the value in small achievements.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

If you are afraid to fail, your successes will be few, common, and unmemorable.

~ Lorii Myers

He challenged the world with his genius, and the world defeated him by ignoring the challenge and starving him. He stopped writing because he had failed and because he had no choice but to accept the world’s terms: there is no mystery here. This was not insanity, but common sense.

~ Raymond Weaver

The real failure is not the one who falls down, it's the one who refuses to get up.

~ Habeeb Akande

Fail often and fail cheap.

~ Paul Sloane

No marketplace, free or otherwise, is good when it fails to consider the basic human state of needs at every stage of life.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Rejection isn't failure. Failure is giving up. Everybody gets rejected. It's how you handle it that determines where you'll end up.

~ Richard Castle

Whatever it takes to finish things, finish. You will learn more from a glorious failure than you ever will from something you never finished.

~ Neil Gaiman

Sometimes… Sometimes doubt is the opposite of faith, but sometimes doubt can be a pathway to faith. Sometimes weakness is the opposite of strength, but sometimes weakness can be the pathway to strength. Sometimes addiction is the opposite of sobriety, but sometimes addiction can be the pathway to sobriety. Sometimes infidelity is the opposite of fidelity, but sometimes infidelity can be a pathway to fidelity. Sometimes failure is the opposite of success, but sometimes failure can be the pathway to success.

~ David W. Jones

When we fail we are merely joining the great parade of humanity that has walked ahead of us and will follow after us.

~ Richard Rohr

It's a new day. Yesterday's failure is redeemed at the sunrise

~ Todd Stocker

I’ve witnessed, incognito, the gradual collapse of my life, the slow foundering of all I wanted to be. I can say, with a truth that needs no flowers to show it’s dead, that there’s nothing I’ve wanted - and nothing in which I’ve placed, even for a moment, the dream of only that moment - that hasn’t disintegrated below my windows like a clod of dirt that resembled stone until it fell from a flowerpot on a high balcony. It would even seem that Fate has always tried to make me love or want things just so that it could show me, on the very next day, that I didn’t have and could never have them.

~ Fernando Pessoa

Don’t fail through defects of temper and over-sensitiveness at moments of trial. One of the great helps to success is to be cheerful; to go to work with a full sense of life; to be determined to put hindrances out of the way; to prevail over them and to get the mastery. Above all things else, be cheerful; there is no beatitude for the despairing.

~ Amelia E. Barr

Nowadays the standards had plummeted so far that I failed even at being a failure. I silently packed up. Nothing else was left. They had even robbed me of self-pity

~ Arthur Nersesian

I've written about 2,000 short stories; I've only published 300 and I feel I'm still learning. Any man who keeps working is not a failure. He may not be a great writer, but if he applies the old fashioned virtues of hard, constant labor, he'll eventually make some kind of career for himself as a writer.Ray Bradbury, 1967 interview(Doing the Math - that means for every story he sold, he wrote six un-publishable ones. Keep typing!)

~ Ray Bradbury

Denial of our pattern of failure seems to be a kind of practical atheism or chosen ignorance among many believers and clergy.

~ Richard Rohr

Whatever actions you take, keep in mind that over the course of life, you will fail far more from timidity, procrastination, and carefulness than you will from just stepping up to the plate and, as we say in Australia, giving it a bloody go!

~ Margie Warrell

There's one good thing about a mistake. As long as you're alive, you still have time to fix it.

~ Benjamin Bayani