Failure Quotes

"I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time."

Herbert Bayard Swope

"There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure."

Paulo Coelho

"Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever."

Lance Armstrong

"You must make a decision that you are going to move on. It wont happen automatically. You will have to rise up and say, ‘I don’t care how hard this is, I don’t care how disappointed I am, I’m not going to let this get the best of me. I’m moving on with my life."

Joel Osteen

"Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm."

Winston Churchill

"The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people."

Randy Pausch

"You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it."

Maya Angelou

"My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them."

Jack Kerouac

"It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed."

Theodore Roosevelt

"A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all."

Friedrich Nietzsche

"Success is most often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable."

Coco Chanel

"We are all failures- at least the best of us are."

J.M. Barrie

"You’re not obligated to win. You’re obligated to keep trying. To the best you can do everyday."

Jason Mraz

"Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth."

Jules Verne

"The phoenix must burn to emerge."

Janet Fitch

"Try again. Fail again. Fail better."

Samuel Beckett

"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

"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 T. Kiyosaki

"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."

Ellen DeGeneres

"If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried."

Steven Wright

"Success, after all, loves a witness, but failure can't exist without one."

Junot Díaz

"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 can’t in a can—it’s carbonated failure that’s ready to drink. It tastes like the back half of love."

Jarod Kintz

"All my failures as a human being I blame on my father. Life is about accepting responsibility, and it’s time my father started being held accountable for my deficiencies."

Jarod Kintz

"I was just shy of reaching my goal. My goal was to be more extroverted, so being just shy meant I completely failed."

Jarod Kintz

"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

"Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life."

J.K. Rowling

"Don’t let mental blocks control you. Set yourself free. Confront your fear and turn the mental blocks into building blocks."

Roopleen

"What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise"

Oscar Wilde

"It's failure that gives you the proper perspective on success."

Ellen DeGeneres

"All the time you're saying to yourself, 'I could do that, but I won't,' — which is just another way of saying that you can't."

Richard Feynman

"But instead of spending our lives running towards our dreams, we are often running away from a fear of failure or a fear of criticism."

Eric Wright

"Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will."

Suzy Kassem

"Don't worry about being effective. Just concentrate on being faithful to the truth."

Dorothy Day

"I am struck by how sharing our weakness and difficulties is more nourishing to others than sharing our qualities and successes."

Jean Vanier

"The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want."

Patrick Swayze

"Lucy: You learn more when you lose Charlie Brown: Well then I must be the smartest person in world!!!"

Charles M. Schulz

"When I face the desolate impossibility of writing five hundred pages, a sick sense of failure falls on me, and I know I can never do it. Then gradually, I write one page and then another. One day's work is all I can permit myself to contemplate."

John Steinbeck

"I caught myself thinking about falling in love with someone who I hoped was out there right now thinking about the possibility of me, but I quickly banished the notion. It was that kind of thinking that landed me in this situation to begin with. Hope can ruin you."

Perry Moore, Hero

"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

"I never fail. It's just that the people around me succeed more than I."

Carroll Bryant

"The bottom line is, insults only hurt when they come from someone I respect."

Kresley Cole

"Nearly' only counts in horseshoes and hand-grenades."

Neil Gaiman

"I dreamt -- marvellous error! -- that I had a beehive here inside my heart. And the golden bees were making white combs and sweet honey from my old failures."

Antonio Machado

"Failure is a greater teacher than success"

Clarissa Pinkola Estés

"Failure is just part of the process, and it's not just okay; it's better than okay. God doesn't want failure to shut us down. God didn't make it a three-strikes-and-you're-out sort of thing. It's more about how God helps us dust ourselves off so we can swing for the fences again. And all of this without keeping a meticulous record of our screw-ups."

Bob Goff

"The sorrow of God lies in our fear of Him, our fear of life, and our fear of ourselves. He anguishes over our self-absorption and self-sufficiency... God's sorrow lies in our refusal to approach Him when we sinned and failed."

Brennan Manning

"There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient."

Sivananda Saraswati

"So, I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me."

Charles Dickens

"Why are you going to choose failure when success is an option?"

Jillian Michaels

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