These Failure quotes will inspire you.
Below you will find a collection of motivating, knowledgeable, and encouraging failure quotes, failure sayings, and failure proverbs.
Inspirational Failure Quotes
- “A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.” ~ Christopher Morley
- “There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.” ~ George Eliot
- “Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.” ~ William Feather , Success failure quotes
- “When we begin to take our failures non-seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them.” ~ Katherine Mansfield
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“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” ~ Winston Churchill
- “I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.” ~ George Burns , Love failure quotes
- “Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.” ~ Steve Jobs , Failure quotes in life
- “I really don’t think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don’t mind the failure but I can’t imagine that I’d forgive myself if I didn’t try.” ~ Nikki Giovanni
- “I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” ~ Michael Jordan
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“Failure is a delay, but not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead-end street.” ~ William Arthur Ward
- “I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.” ~ Bill Cosby
- “A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.” ~ George Bernard Shaw
- “”Failure” is not the falling down, but the staying down.” ~ Mary Pickford
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“I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.” ~ Michael Jordan
- “You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone.” ~ Johnny Cash
- “Every negative event contains within it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.” ~ Napoleon Hill
- “It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.” ~ Bill Gates
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“We are all failures – at least the best of us are.” ~ James M. Barrie
- “My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
- “You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don’t try to forget the mistakes, but you don’t dwell on it. You don’t let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.” ~ Johnny Cash
- “Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.” ~ Calvin Coolidge
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“There is no failure except in no longer trying.” ~ Chris Bradford
- “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” ~ Thomas A. Edison
- “Not failure, but low aim, is crime.” ~ James Russell Lowell
- “You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.” ~ Beverly Sills
- “You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call ‘failure’ is not the falling down, but the staying down.” ~ Mary Pickford
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“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” ~ Theodore Roosevelt
- “It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.” ~ Theodore Roosevelt
- “It is impossible to live without failing at something unless you live so cautiously that you might has well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.” ~ J. K. Rowling
- “Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.” ~ Denis Waitley
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“Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.” ~ Donald Trump
- “A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.” ~ B. F. Skinner
- “Mistakes are always forgivable if one has the courage to admit them.” ~ Bruce Lee
- “Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.” ~ Aristotle
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“Show me a satisfied man, and I’ll show you a failure.” ~ Albert Einstein
- “Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.” ~ Coco Chanel
- “Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.” ~ Calvin Coolidge
- “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” ~ Thomas A. Edison
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“Remember that failure is an event, not a person.” ~ Zig Ziglar
- “If you want to succeed, double your failure rate.” ~ Thomas J. Watson
- “If you’re not failing, you’re not trying hard enough.” ~ Jillian Michaels
- “Half of the failures in life come from pulling one’s horse when he is leaping.” ~ Thomas Hood
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“Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.” ~ C. S. Lewis
- “A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.” ~ John Burroughs
- “I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.” ~ Michael Jordan
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“The world is full of educated derelicts.” ~ Calvin Coolidge
- “Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.” ~ Calvin Coolidge
- “Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.” ~ Truman Capote
- “If you’re not failing, you’re not trying anything.” ~ Woody Allen
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“Show me a thoroughly satisfied man – and I will show you a failure.” ~ Thomas A. Edison
- “The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.” ~ Napoleon Hill
- “American naturalist John Burroughs put it, “A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.” ~ Jeff Olson
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“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.” ~ Thomas A. Edison
- “Winners are not afraid of losing. But losers are. Failure is part of the process of success. People who avoid failure also avoid success.” ~ Robert Kiyosaki
- “It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.” ~ Katherine Mansfield
- “Don’t fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.” ~ Bruce Lee
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“Failure is part of the process of success.” ~ Robert Kiyosaki
- “One fails forward toward success.” ~ Charles Kettering
- “Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It’s quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure.” ~ Thomas Watson, Jr.
- “Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” ~ Thomas A. Edison
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“In great attempts, it is glorious even to fail.” ~ Vince Lombardi
- “For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?” ~ James Allen
- “My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.” ~ Jack Kerouac
- “Tactics mean doing what you can with what you have.” ~ Saul Alinsky
Summary: Failure, a state of inability to perform a normal function; lack of success; a falling short.
