Top 88 Failure Quotes

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Failure is a part of life. The point is that you need to learn how to pick yourself up. With that in mind, check out the top 88 failure quotes.

#88 – 80. Failure Quotes

88. Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results. – Scott Adams

87. The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure. – John C. Maxwell

86. Machines that have broken down will work perfectly when the repairman arrives. – Third Law of Office Murphology

85. Giving up is the only sure way to fail. – Gena Showalter

84. Failure isn’t fatal, but failure to change might be. – John Wooden

83. You don’t go into anything contemplating failure, because if you did, you wouldn’t make it. – Simon Cowell

82. Failure isn’t fatal, but failure to change might be – John Wooden

81. Don’t worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try. – Jack Canfield

80. There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure. – Paulo Coelho

#79 – 70. Failure Quotes

79. Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again. – Richard Branson

78. Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising. – Cyril Connolly

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

76. Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently. – Henry Ford

75. Failure is another stepping stone to greatness. – Oprah Winfrey

74. What is the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable? – John Green

73. There is no failure except in no longer trying. – Chris Bradford

72. The degree of failure is in direct proportion to the effort expended and to the need for success. – Sod’s Other Law

71. A minute’s success pays the failure of years. – Robert Browning

70. We’re born with success. It is only others who point out our failures, and what they attribute to us as failure. – Whoopi Goldberg

#69 – 60. Failure Quotes

69. 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

68. An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the grand fallacy. – Weinberg’s Corollary

67. I’d rather be partly great than entirely useless. – Neal Shusterman

66. It’s failure that gives you the proper perspective on success. – Ellen DeGeneres

65. When we give ourselves permission to fail, we, at the same time, give ourselves permission to excel. – Eloise Ristad

64. Trying is just the first step toward failure. – Homer Simpson

63. The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong, is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair. – Douglas Adams

62. Don’t bury your failures, let them inspire you. – Robert Kiyosaki

61. With a hint of good judgment, to fear nothing, not failure or suffering or even death, indicates that you value life the most. You live to the extreme; you push limits; you spend your time building legacies. Those do not die. – Criss Jami

60. The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

#59 – 50. Failure Quotes

59. If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original. – Ken Robinson

58. Failure is the condiment that gives its flavor. – Truman Capote

57. Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever. – Lance Armstrong

56. Success doesn’t teach as many lessons as failure does. – Jay Samit

55. The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing. – Henry Ford

54. Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. – Winston Churchill

53. Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit. – Napoleon Hill

52. No job is too small to botch. – Hylton’s Rule

51. Failure is so important. We speak about success all the time. It is the ability to resist failure or use failure that often leads to greater success. I’ve met people who don’t want to try for fear of failing. – J.K. Rowling

50. It’s only when you risk failure that you discover things. When you play it safe, you’re not expressing the utmost of your human experience. – Lupita Nyong’o

#49 – 40. Failure Quotes

49. A component’s degree of reliability is directly proportional to its ease of accessibility (i.e., the harder it is to get to, the more often it breaks down). – Waddell’s Law of Equipment Failure

48. If at first you don’t succeed, try try again… then quit; there’s no use being a damn fool about it. – W.C. Fields

47. Failure doesn’t kill you… it increases your desire to make something happen. – Kevin Costner

46. I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. – Thomas A. Edison

45. The master has failed more times than the beginner has tried. – Stephen McCranie

44. We are all failures – at least the best of us are. – J.M. Barrie

43. If a book about failures doesn’t sell, is it a success? – Jerry Seinfeld

42. She was unstoppable, not because she did not have failures or doubts, but because she continued on despite them. – Beau Taplin

41. 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

40. No human ever became interesting by not failing. The more you fail and recover and improve, the better you are as a person. Ever meet someone who’s always had everything work out for them with zero struggle? They usually have the depth of a puddle. Or they don’t exist. – Chris Hardwick

#39 – 30. Failure Quotes

39. Don’t think of it as failure. Think of it as time-released success. – Robert Orben

38. I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. – Thomas A. Edison

37. What matters is this: Being fearless of failure arms you to break the rules. In doing so, you may change the culture and just possibly, for a moment, change life itself. – Malcolm Mclaren

36. No experiment is ever a complete failure – it can always serve as a negative example. – Futility Factor

35. Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. – Winston Churchill

34. Failure doesn’t mean you are a failure, it just means you haven’t succeeded yet. – Robert H. Schuller

33. Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. – Robert F. Kennedy

32. Everything you want is on the other side of fear.  – Jack Canfield

31. If you don’t try at anything, you can’t fail… it takes back bone to lead the life you want – Richard Yates

30. I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying. – Michael Jordan

#29 – 20. Failure Quotes

29. 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

28. The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps. – Benjamin Disraeli

27. The phoenix must burn to emerge. – Janet Fitch

26. If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success. – James Cameron

25. Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. – Winston Churchill

24. Everything put together sooner or later falls apart. – Simon’s Law

23. Successful people don’t fear failure, but understand that it’s necessary to learn and grow from. – Robert Kiyosaki

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

21. I was afraid of being a failure, of not having the best time or of being chicken. But every year I get older I think, What was I fearing last year? You forget. And then you move on. – Sandra Bullock

20. If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative. – Woody Allen

#19 – 10. Failure Quotes

19. I’ve probably earned the right to screw up a few times. I don’t want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about. – Emma Watson

18. Authorization for a project will be granted only when none of the authorizers can be blamed if the project fails but when all of the authorizers can claim credit if it succeeds. – Roger’s Rule

17. A failure doesn’t mean you are unworthy, nor does it preclude success on the next try. – Leonard Mlodinow

16. I can accept failure. Everyone fails at something. But I can not accept not trying. – Michael Jordan

15. Fear regret more than failure. – Taryn Rose

14. Success is a public affair; failure is a private funeral. – Rosalind Russell

13. It’s not how far you fall, but how high you bounce that counts. – Zig Ziglar

12. 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

11. If you learn from defeat, you haven’t really lost. – Zig Ziglar

10. It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default. – J. K. Rowling

#9 – 1. Failure Quotes

9. No matter how careful one is in resealing the inner liner in a cereal box, it will tear where it is glued to the box. – Stale’s Law

8. Everything breaks down. – Orion’s Law

7. I don’t believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process. – Oprah Winfrey

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

5. Fail, fail again, fail better. – Samuel Beckett

4. Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble. – Shah Rukh Khan

3. Whenever a superstar is traded to your favorite team, he fades. Whenever your team trades away a useless no-name, he immediately rises to stardom. – Knox’s Principle of Star Quality

2. 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

1. Office machines that function perfectly during normal business hours will break down when you return at night to use them for personal business. – Second Law of Office Murphology

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