Inspirational Failure Quotes & Sayings

Failure is not the end; it is an opportunity to begin again. — Debasish Mridha

I know you like to be in control and you operate a lot from fear but you have to break the bounds of your past Nicole and rewrite the story you've been telling yourself based off of others experiences. You have to create your own experience, write your own story. — Kathryn Perez

We shouldn't be fearful of failure because is not a monster as we think it is. It's just a training ground for those who are really striving for excellence in life. — Euginia Herlihy

It's our decisions, not our conditions, that ultimately shape the quality of our lives. — Derric Yuh Ndim

The biggest risk in life is not the failure, but the failure to get an education. — Debasish Mridha

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

Failure is a reality; we all fail at times, and it's painful when we do. But it's better to fail while striving for something wonderful, challenging, adventurous, and uncertain than to say, I don't want to try because I may not succeed completely. — Jimmy Carter

Failure is the new success. — Phil Volatile

Inner peace has no correlation with success or failure - winning or losing. — Debasish Mridha

Have you failed today? If not, you might not be trying hard enough. Failure is a part of growth, a stepping stone towards success. In its own right it is a small victory and should be celebrated as such. So I ask you again, have you failed today? — Shane E. Bryan

The living are always trying to find the shortcuts to happiness in life. But look what happens when someone achieves premature success: they bloom too early and spend the rest of their lives dying....Success without struggle warps a person. — Susan Wells Bennett

Don't live your life like an attempt, because if you fail there is no second attempt. — Amit Kalantri

A coward worships the limits of impossibilities, obeys the rule of uncertainty, respects the forces of doubt, and magnifies the fear of failure. — Olarewaju Oladipo

Failure should be archived in head, not heart! — Jasleen Kaur Gumber

Failure does not connote that you achieved nothing. It denotes that you are on an adventure towards finding what will eventually advance you to the realization of your goals. — Ogwo David Emenike

I would rather be a spectacular failure than a mediocre success. — Kuo Pao Kun

We all make mistakes. Keep playing." From the short story, "The Whitewood Kitarra. — Christie Maurer

Success or failure in your work and relationships is dependent on how you manage your feelings. — Deborah Sandella

Think of some things you've wanted to do for ages and have never given yourself time or permission to do them. The Voice knows what they are and has probably suggested them many times. You've always said inside, 'Oh, I couldn't. Costs too much. I've got too much work. I'm too tired. I can't be away from x that long. Should clean out the garage instead.' It's time to stop cleaning and start living. — Noelle Sterne

There is only one person in the world, aside from your dog, who has any hope of liking you regardless of your success or failure. That's you. I think it's worth a little of your time to get to know that person better. — H.L. Stephens

Failure is part of life, but surrender is the end of life. — Debasish Mridha

Lord, look down on Thy Servant!
Bad things have come to pass.
There is no heat in the midday sun, nor health in the wayside grass.
His bones are full of an old disease - his torments run and increase.
Lord, make haste with Thy Lightning and grant him a quick release! — Cherise Sinclair

Shame is the power we give others to wield over us. — Chinelo Okparanta

Experience comes from failure
and success comes from experience. — Debasish Mridha

Failure is a detour — NightBits

Failure isn't something to be embarassed about; it's just proof that you're pushing your limits, trying new things, daring to innovate. — Gavin Newsom

Life is like a roller coaster. Ups and downs are just part of the ride. — Bill Loguidice

Success is a process, but a failure is a forward step for success. — Debasish Mridha

I must admit that you fascinate me, Superior. Your life would seem to be entirely unbearable. And yet you fight so very, very hard to stay alive. With every weapon and stratagem. You simply refuse to die."
"I am ready to die." Glokta returned his gaze, like for like. "But I refuse to lose." ~Bayaz and Glokta — Joe Abercrombie

Every sucessful person in the world is a hustler one way or another. We all hustle to get where we need to be. Only a fool would sit around and wait on another man to feed him. — K'wan

Fear is the greatest obstacle to any adventure. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Don't let people's negative perspectives impact yours — Mayur Ramgir

If at first you don't succeed, tweak it before you toss it. — Todd Stocker

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. — George E. Woodberry

Every opportunity missed is an opportunity for regret — Karl Kloppenborg

Everyone gets to the stage, or should get to it, where it's more important to stop doing things than to keep on trying to do them. — George Johnston

Failure is when you give up. A real winner is someone that doesn't give up, even when it feels like they are losing. — Joshua Hartzell

Shortcomings we hate in others can be hidden issues we have failed to recognize within ourselves. — Okisha Jackson

If you start thinking that only your biggest and shiniest moments count, you're setting yourself up to feel like a failure most of the time. — Chris Hadfield

To take risk and fail is not a failure. Real failure is to fear taking any risk — Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum

There comes with every experience of temporary defeat, and every failure and every form of adversity, the seed of an equivalent benefit — Napoleon Hill

Guilt starts as a feeling of failure. — Frank Herbert

There is no such thing as failure. Everything is a success to whatever degree it is taken. — Morning Sun Yellow Pony

Know Many
Trust a Few
But Always Paddle your Own Canoe — Harmony Kent

Every goal has a road block; that is our fear of failure. — Debasish Mridha

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

Always try to fix what is broken so that when the blessings come, you will be able to receive it. This generation does a lot of right things for wrong reasons. — Patience Johnson

If you can tolerate the humiliation and helplessness and admit that you're an out-of-control fuckup, it frees you from expectations that you can't possibly meet, promises you can't keep, and appearances you can't maintain; it liberates you from the ensuring cycle of endless failure. — Michael Bennett

Your failure is measured by your aspirations. Aspire not, and you cannot fail. Columbus died in chains. Joan or Arc was burned at the stake. Let us all live snugly -- and life will soon be little more than a thick, gelatinous stream of comfortability and ignorance. — Myles Connolly

In America, it's where you end up that matters, not how you get there. As long as you get there, no one asks questions. You don't ask. You never ask. And if someone does ask how you got there? It's usually a harmless person who never got anything, never got out, died paying rent as he waited for God to deliver him. — Ernesto Quinonez

Many a soul will turn back to accustomed marshlands of defeat rather than brave the fogs of frustration; but the mountain peaks rise high above the rain and gloom. — V. Raymond Edman

If you are on time you are a slave, if you are late you are free — SK

Things don't always go as planned, but it's when you make a plan out of the unplanned and make the best of the unlikely things In life. — Auliq Ice

Pain strengthens and failure teaches us the proper way to do things. — Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

It is far better to be exhausted from success than to be rested from failure. — Mary Kay Ash

Failure will teach you more wisdom than a great success. — Debasish Mridha

As for your failures - stop calling them failures. Refer to them as "experiences". That's all they really are - just experiences. — Lindsey Rietzsch

Fear will do one thing and one thing only: hold you back — Kya Aliana

You learn more from your mistakes and failures than from any degree of success. Success can only be grasped for a moment before it becomes a distant oasis not to be found again unless you thirst for the knowledge found in the well fed by your mistakes and failures. — Brian Michael Good

A hundred failures mean a thousand successes — Ady Mifarizki

There are times in our lives when we labor so hard, for so long, that it may feel that we have nothing to show for it. That we have failed. We get discouraged, because we don't achieve what we yearned for or anticipated.
But a lack of desired results doesn't mean we failed ... it means we have locked our sights on the end result, instead of focusing on the process itself.
No one can guarantee your success.
What you can do, however, is consistently act - progressing towards your goals, so that your chances of success grows exponentially with each step you take. — Jaime Buckley

It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done. — Samuel Smiles

Love every version of yourself, they help create your own unique version of extraordinary. — Kaiden Blake

You will fail. That's great. Here's a secret for you - that's the only way you can learn. Learning has to cost you something. If you fail but learn something from your failure, you will grow. — Stella Adler

Dreams don't get done until they are due. — Richie Norton

Failure in and of itself is not a bad thing. But failing to learn from it is inexcusable. — Alison Levine

I settled on a game called I am a contribution. Unlike success and failure, contribution has no other side. It is not arrived at by comparison. — Benjamin Zander

Never a failure,always a lesson — Rihanna

The best lessons learned are from other peoples mistakes. — Melissa Bradley

As you proceed through life, following your own path, birds will shit on you. Don't bother to brush it off.
Getting a comedic view of your situation gives you spiritual distance.
Having a sense of humor saves you. — Joseph Campbell

When you start off, you have to deal with the problems of failure. You need to be thick-skinned, to learn that not every project will survive. — Neil Gaiman

But a man's walking-around body can be a ghost a whole lot easier than his spirit can. — Sarah Porter

Is the sunrise of Mount Fuji more beautiful from the one you see in the countryside a bit closer to home? Are the beaches of Indonesia really that much more serene than those we have in our own countries? The point I make is not to downplay the marvels of the world, but to highlight the notion of the human tendency in our failure to see the beauty in our daily lives when we take off the travel goggles when we are home. It is the preconceived notion of a place that creates the difference in perception of environments rather than the actual geological location. — Forrest Curran

All failure is failure to adapt, all success is successful adaptation. — Max McKeown

The options are limitless, but each path begins with the same first step: replacing assumptions. — Timothy Ferriss

The best way to succeed in life is to act on the advice we give to others. — Mother Teresa

A critical point: Is an inter-phase between crisis and normalcy, life and death, danger and safety, failure and success — Ikechukwu Joseph

There is no failure unless you quit. Only success not yet won.

~Haghuf, in Power of the Dance — Jaq D. Hawkins

Academic failure contributes to poverty and poor health and undermines workforce productivity in ways that harm the entire society. — Anthony Biglan

Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever. — Lance Armstrong

Every day you make certain decisions and take specific actions that come about as a result of how you think, feel and the habits you tend to indulge — Derric Yuh Ndim

Most men and women will yield to the strong currents sucking them into the seas of ruin. Only the strongest in mind and spirit will swim against that current. — Ted Dekker

success only come to those who dare to attempt... — Mallika Tripathi

The ostrich-approach of burying your head in the sand, when confronting your areas of weakness, becomes a self-set trigger for failure. — Archibald Marwizi

How many of us stop short of success on purpose? How many of us sabotage our own happiness because failure, while miserable, is a fear we're familiar with? Success, however, dreams come true, are a whole new kind of terrifying, an entire new species of responsibilities and disillusions, requiring a new way to think, act and become. Why do we REALLY quit? Because it's hopeless? Or because it's possible ... — Jennifer DeLucy

when you are a child you unconsciously adopt certain beliefs. Yet, there comes
the necessity to upgrade these beliefs as you grow older. — Derric Yuh Ndim

Biggest obstacle in the way of success is the fear of failure. — Debasish Mridha

To be defeated is only a fable in which one may tell of oneself. I will try and I will try again, though never shall I call it failure. I am simply one step closer to thy truth. — Tania Elizabeth

Analyse it; chance of getting succeed are always greater than failure — Harishankar Kaushik

Justice without mercy is tyranny — E'Jei Osborne

Failure is not an end-it is the means to an end. Study your failures, for they are the scrambled secrets of success. — Romina Russell

Failure is not an option, winning or learning are the options. — Debasish Mridha

A criminal is undoubtedly a poor soul, who is punished for his poverty. — Thomas Bernhard

Don't care about success or failure. Keep doing what you love. Success will follow. — Udai Yadla

Rejection isn't a sign of failure. Rejection is a reminder that there's always room for improvement. — Ana Hart

Go out and do your thing knowing that rejection and failure is an inevitable and integral part of the process to achieving your dreams. — Miya Yamanouchi

It takes courage to fail. — Debasish Mridha

One often has to do what they have to do in order to do what they want to do; however if you only do what you want to do then you will never do what you have to do! — C. Moorer

Failure makes me work even harder. — Michael Jordan

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