Failure quotes

Explore inspiring quotes and wisdom on overcoming failure, turning setbacks into success. Find motivation and guidance to embrace failure as a stepping stone towards greatness.

You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give.

- E. O. Wilson

To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.

- James Allen

This attempt to isolate cell constituents might have been a failure if they had been destroyed by the relative brutality of the technique employed. But this did not happen.

- Albert Claude

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

Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.

- Robert Half

It's a failure of national vision when you regard children as weapons, and talents as materials you can mine, assay, and fabricate for profit and defense.

- John Hersey

If you're not a born-again Christian, you're a failure as a human being.

- Jerry Falwell

What we've got here is a failure to communicate.

- Donn Pearce

Even as far back as when I started acting at 14, I know I've never considered failure.

- Jennifer Lawrence

He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.

- Paul Tillich

A man may fall many times, but he won't be a failure until he says that someone pushed him.

- Elmer G. Letterman

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

- George Eliot

Failure is always an option.

- Adam Savage

But if you look at WorldCom, which is the biggest failure to date, they grew dramatically, they were buying companies that were bigger than they were and they were doing it off inflated stock.

- Don Nickles

This dullness of vision regarding the importance of the general welfare to the individual is the measure of the failure of our schools and churches to teach the spiritual significance of genuine democracy.

- Henry A. Wallace

Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats; then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.

- Fred Allen

Well, I think it's too early to call Fallujah a failure.

- Charles Schumer

Working mothers are just as likely to want to conform to a standard of perfection and just as likely to suffer from their failure to meet it as their stay-at-home counterparts.

- Melinda M. Marshall

Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

- Zig Ziglar

Any man who has $10,000 left when he dies is a failure.

- Errol Flynn

Failure has gone to his head.

- Wilson Mizner

If you try to do your best there is no failure.

- Mike Farrell

One failure is worth seven and a half successes.

- Eli Khamarov

All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.

- Jean-Paul Sartre

Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

- Oprah Winfrey

If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk.

- Rosalynn Carter

A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.

- John Burroughs

Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression.

- Eric Hoffer

Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

- Jim Rohn