Failure Quotes

One fails forward toward success.

Never mistake activity for achievement.

The best teacher is experience learned from failures.

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing.

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won't have time to make them all yourself.

It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little — do what you can.

Those who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try nothing and succeed.

It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.

There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Edison failed 10,000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. Do not mistake activity for achievement.

Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.

When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.

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

We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

There are no failures. Just experiences and your reactions to them.

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone elses.

Do not give your attention to what others do or fail to do; give it to what you do or fail to do.

It is not the mistake that has the most power, instead, it is learning from the mistake to advance your own attributes.

A failure is a man who has blundered but is not capable of cashing in on the experience.

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure: which is: Try to please everybody.

Fear of failure is one attitude that will keep you at the same point in your life.

For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.

Adversity isn't set against you to fail; adversity is a way to build your character so that you can succeed over and over again through perseverance.

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.

He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.

It can't be spring if your heart is filled with past failures.

The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Try and fail, but don't fail to try.

Don't think of it as failure. Think of it as time-released success.

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.

I don't believe in failure. It's not failure if you enjoyed the process.

The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes than he who distrusts them.

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.

My reputation grows with every failure.

Remember that failure is an event, not a person.

Never mistake motion for action.

The only person who never makes mistakes is the person who never does anything.

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose.

Strong people make as many mistakes as weak people. Difference is that strong people admit their mistakes, laugh at them, learn from them. That is…

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.

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.

It's fine to celebrate success, but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.

I knew that if I failed I wouldn't regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying.

Celebrate your successes. Find some humor in your failures. Don't take yourself so seriously. Loosen up, and everybody around you will loosen up.

I made mistakes and I paid for them, but the ball is never stained.

I am Maradona, who makes goals, who makes mistakes. I can take it all, I have shoulders big enough to fight with everybody.

Things won't go perfect. It's all about how you adapt from those things and learn from mistakes.

Success is not a good teacher. Failure makes you humble.

Success and failure are both part of life. Both are not permanent.

I have had unsuccessful films, but I learned a lot from those films. I give my failures as much respect as I give my success.

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.