Failure Quotes And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

Here is a collection of failure quotes and sayings from various authors, celebrities, famous persons, and other sources compiled by allinspiration.com for you to read and enjoy.

“One’s only rival is one’s own potentialities. One’s only failure is failing to live up to one’s own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.”
– Abraham Maslow

“To err is human, to forgive, divine.”
– Alexander Pope

“No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma – but we make out of them just what suits our purposes.”
– Alfred Adler

“It is the want of diligence, rather than the want of means, that causes most failures”
– Alfred Mercier

“A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.”
– Ambrose Bierce

“Destiny: A tyrant’s authority for crime and a fool’s excuse for failure.”
– Ambrose Bierce

“I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others.”
– Amelia Earhart

“It’s best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.”
– Anne Baxter

“Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.”
– Arnold Schwarzenegger

“The end of a relationship is not always a failure. Sometimes all the love in the world is not enough to save something. In these cases, it is not a matter of fault from either person. Some things cannot be, it’s as simple as that.”
– Ashly Lorenzana

“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

“In America, there’s a failure to appreciate Europe’s leading role in the world.”
– Barack Obama

“Success is determined not by whether or not you face obstacles, but by your reaction to them. And if you look at these obstacles as a containing fence, they become your excuse for failure. If you look at them as a hurdle, each one strengthens you for the next.”
– Ben Carson

“I didn’t fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.”
– Benjamin Franklin

“Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.”
– Benjamin Franklin

“You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.”
– Beverly Sills

“In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.”
– Bill Cosby

“It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.”
– Bill Gates

“Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.”
– C.S. Lewis

“I never fail. It’s just that the people around me succeed more than I.”
– Carroll Bryant

“If Liberia has failed, then, it is no evidence of the failure of the Negro in government. It is merely evidence of the failure of slavery.”
– Carter G. Woodson

“Once you start a working on something, don’t be afraid of failure and don’t abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.”
– Chanakya

“Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.”
– Charlie Chaplin

“As kids we’re not taught how to deal with success; we’re taught how to deal with failure. If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. If at first you succeed, then what?”
– Charlie Sheen

“A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.”
– Christian Nestell Bovee

“A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.”
– Christopher Morley

“Success is most often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.”
– Coco Chanel

“Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.”
– Colin Powell

“He will know from and early age that failure is not disgrace. It’s just a pitch that you missed, and you’d better get ready for the next one. The next one might be the shot heard round the world. My son and I are Americans, we prepare for glory by failing until we don’t.”
– Craig Ferguson

“Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.”
– Dale Carnegie

“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

“Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.”
– Denis Waitley

“All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right about face which turns us from failure to success.”
– Dorthea Brande

“Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them.”
– Doug Coupland

“Failure is authentic, and because it’s authentic, it’s real and genuine, and because of that, it’s a pure state of being.”
– Doug Coupland

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