50 THOUGHT-PROVOKING FAILURE QUOTES
“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” – Thomas A. Edison
“Just because you fail once doesn’t mean you’re gonna fail at everything.” – Marilyn Monroe
“Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.” – Babe Ruth
“Giving up is the only sure way to fail.” – Gena Showalter
“Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn’t work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach.” – Roger Von Oech
“It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Ninety-nine percent of all failures come from people who have a habit of making excuses.” – George Washington Carver
“Where we fall are the stepping-stones for our journey.” – Lolly Daskal
“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
“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.” – Truman Capote
“Do not fear failure but rather fear not trying.” – Roy T. Bennett
“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” – Robert F. Kennedy
“Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Failure is a bend in the road, not the end of the road. Learn from failure and keep moving forward.” – Roy T. Bennett
“Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.
“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
“Success, after all, loves a witness, but failure can’t exist without one.” – Junot Díaz
“Failure doesn’t define you. It’s what you do after you fail that determines whether you are a leader or a waste of perfectly good air.” – Sabaa Tahir
“There is no failure except in no longer trying.” – Elbert Hubbard
“I was never afraid of failure; for I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.” – John Keats
“Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.”- Napoleon Hill
“Sometimes it takes a wrong turn to get you to the right place.”- Mandy Hale
“You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.” – Beverly Sills
“There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.” – Swami Sivananda
“Never feel shame for trying and failing for he who has never failed is he who has never tried.” – Og Mandino
“Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.” – Zig Ziglar
“The difference between success and failure is not giving up.” – Steven Redhead
“Failure is just another way to learn how to do something right.”- Marian Wright Edelman
“Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.” – Richard Branson
“Sometimes failure is the beginning of success” – Astrid Scholte
If there is one lesson I've learned from failure and success, it's this. I am not the outcome. I am never the result. I am only the effort.
“Trying is fine. Failing is inevitable. Don’t let it devour you.” – Michelle Sagara
“It’s failure that gives you the proper perspective on success.” – Ellen DeGeneres
“It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.” – Bill Gates
“Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.” – Zig Ziglar
“You always pass failure on your way to success.” – Mickey Rooney
“Sometimes, when we want something so badly, we fear failure more than we fear being without that thing.” – Matthew J. Kirby
How we feel is not who we are. We might feel like failures, but as long as we are still trying, we are not failures. We are works in progress.
“Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.”- Henry Ford
“Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure.” – Jack Lemmon
“Success and failure are two edges of the same blade, two sides of the same coin. To fear one is to forever deny the possibility of the other.” – Michelle Sagara West
“The greatest reward for a man’s failure is not necessarily the consequent success, but what he becomes by it.” – Ogwo David Emenike
“Failures are the stairs we climb to reach success.” – Roy Bennett
“Failure is an opportunity to rise higher than before.” – Edwin Dearborn
“Failure is only failure if you focus on what didn’t work rather than focusing on what could if you did it differently.” – Craig D. Lounsbrough
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill
“I can accept failure. Everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.” – Michael Jordan