Top 100 Experience Failure Quotes
#1. No one likes the word "failure" and no one wants to ever experience failure ... but the truth is that our failures pave the way for our eventual success and we have only truly failed if we stop trying.
Sheri Kaye Hoff
#2. I constantly experience failure in that my work is never as good as I want it to be. So I live with failure.
Jeremy Irons
#3. Leaders are made through discipline, training, experience, failure, and the desire to continually improve.
Bradford Winters
#4. The library is full of stories of supposed triumphs which makes me very suspicious of it. It's misleading for people to read about great successes, since even for middle-class and upper-class white people, in my experience, failure is the norm
Kurt Vonnegut
#5. Even in the growth mindset, failure can be a painful experience. But it doesn't define you. It's a problem to be faced, dealt with, and learned from.
Carol S. Dweck
#6. If you experience chronic difficulties in a particular area of your life, there's a strong chance that the root of the problem is a failure to accept reality as it is.
Steve Pavlina
#7. Failure gives the bald hairs; equips the novice with experience. The learner, sooner or later, becomes a teacher by it.
Ogwo David Emenike
#8. Having gained experience, you can help others and discover your destination and unique gift
Sunday Adelaja
#9. In the old days, variety turns like me learned how to cope with failure - we all had nights when we 'died' on stage - but today's youngsters simply don't have that experience. For them, it really is instant make or break time - hence, all the tears and, hence, all the potential emotional damage.
Bruce Forsyth
#10. Lack of persistence is one of the major causes of failure. Moreover, experience with thousands of people has proved that lack of persistence is a weakness common to the majority of men. It is a weakness which may be overcome with effort.
Napoleon Hill
#11. No experience is wasted. It is the stepping stones for a great success.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#13. To begin again, every failure provides experience and opens the door of opportunity.
Debasish Mridha
#14. It is true that many young people who do not love rightly, who simply surrender themselves and leave no room for aloneness, experience the depressing feeling of failure.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#15. Failure is something you experience on your way to success - unless you're a skydiver.
Peter James West
#16. Frequent risk-takers have had their fair shares of failures and successes, hence, being confident in reaching their goals, they will usually seem insensitive to whether or not they look foolish or cool to other people.
Criss Jami
#17. No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma - but we make out of them just what suits our purposes.
Alfred Adler
#19. Take every failure as an experience, cause to be successful you need experience.
Jonathan Daniels
#20. All actors should experience public failure.
Olivia Wilde
#21. The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
Henry Ford
#22. I'm a 'what if' person. I have always felt that failure was a completely underrated experience. I have taken blows. I have had high moments. But I don't think the blows have ever hardened me. My enthusiasms are still big.
Kevin Costner
#23. To be a true success, you must prepare yourself for an ocassional failure to gain experience and wisdom.
Debasish Mridha
#24. In very rare cases, people will be self-satisfied and content within themselves. More often than not the very same people who choose to live alone are simply in denial after a painful experience or the failure in an intimate relationship.
Nityananda Das
#25. Our habitual experience is a complex of failure and success in the enterprise of interpretation. If we desire a record of uninterpreted experience, we must ask a stone to record its autobiography.
Alfred North Whitehead
#26. No experience of the failure of his policy could shake his belief in its essential excellence.
Babara Tuchman
#27. Don't let failure deter you; use it as a stepping-stone and an educational experience towards making your mark on the world.
Ben Parr
#29. Innovators "view failure not as a fatal character flaw but as a learning experience.
Jason Jennings
#30. No matter how much success you may experience in life, your eventual story - no offence intended - will be one of failure. Your bodily organs will fail, and you'll die.
Oliver Burkeman
#31. 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
#32. There is always a half-malicious curiosity amongst actors to witness the shortcomings of a novice. They invariably experience strong inclinations to prophesy failure.
Anna Cora Mowatt
#33. See your hard times through the spectacles of your experiences. They, too, shall pass away.
Ogwo David Emenike
#34. How often have we all come to that crucial point in a painting where it is practically 'begging' us to stop before we ruin it? We have all had that experience and we risk failure, or at the least mediocrity, if we ignore the voice in our art.
Richard Schmid
#35. Who is the winner? Not he who wins but he who has established his cheerful oneness with the result, which is an experience in the form of failure or success, a journey forward or a journey backward.
Sri Chinmoy
#36. Experience comes from failure
and success comes from experience.
Debasish Mridha
#37. I guess you could call it a "failure", but I prefer the term "learning experience".
Andy Weir
#39. I saw why people died and how they died. I saw gunshot wounds and liver failure. It was a good learning experience, so I came regularly on weekends and holidays.
Michael Baden
#40. I've always felt that failure was a completely underrated experience.
Kevin Costner
#41. True wisdom often comes from the experience of failure - not from success.
Debasish Mridha
#42. The greatest disaster of self; comes not with experience of failure, but the fear gained belief; about what you think you cannot achieve
Nikki Rowe
#43. Failure is a part of life and you have to learn to deal with it. Failure is something that is part of life's cycle and it's from failure that you gain life experience.
Colin Powell
#44. You are fortunate if you have learned the difference between temporary defeat and failure, more fortunate still if you have learned the truth that the very seed of success is dormant in every defeat that you experience.
Napoleon Hill
#46. 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
#47. Often, failure is success trying to be born in a bigger way, and persistence helps you to experience that greater result.
Catherine Ponder
#48. Failure doesn't mean anyone did anything bad. Sometimes people fail even when they only do good things. Or they do what they think is good. Only with hindsight can anyone understand the failures they experience.
Miyuki Miyabe
#50. Failure gives you the experience and the wisdom to be a success in the future.
Debasish Mridha
#51. Love is not some complex, mystical abstraction. It is something accessible and human that we learn through our everyday experience, as often at times of failure as in moments of ecstasy ...
Leo Buscaglia
#52. Failure is a mindset, not a circumstance. I let my experiences strengthen me. You think I fell on my face, but I'm down here doing pushups.
Steve Maraboli
#53. My husband once said he'd never met anybody who walked so fast and ran so slowly. As I said, it's a little hard for me to try new things, and this was me facing a fear that I'd had my whole life. Since I had no experience running, I felt like a failure before I'd even begun.
Jamie Lee Curtis
#54. Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Truman Capote
#55. To make the fastest progress,
Be an absolutely cheerful
Hero-warrior
And take both victory and failure
As parallel experience rivers
Leading to the sea
Of progress-delight.
Sri Chinmoy
#56. What most people don't understand about failure in innovation is that it's an investment. It's actually an investment in experience.
Christopher Galvin
#57. My whole life so far, my whole experience has been that our failure has been not to love enough. This conviction brought me to a rejection of the radical movement after my early membership in the Socialist Party, the Industrial Workers of the World, and the Communist affiliates I worked with.
Dorothy Day
#58. There actually isn't anything better than a noble failure. It will always teach you something and you will always learn from the experience.
Cat Deeley
#59. When your goal is to gain experience, perspective, and knowledge, failure is no longer a possibility
Sophia Amoruso
#60. No loss is without opportunity. No failure is without valuable lessons. Plunge in. It will, at worst, be a valuable experience.
Vironika Tugaleva
#61. My feeling, based on my own experience, is that aiming for grandiosity is the fastest route to failure.
James Altucher
#62. Children, who play life, discern its true law and relations more clearly than men, who fail to live it worthily, but who think that they are wiser by experience, that is, by failure.
Henry David Thoreau
#64. Failure is only an experience. Experience is the foundation of any success.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#65. Failure is a learning experience, and the guy who has never failed has never done anything.
Wilson Greatbatch
#66. Her cowardice had been re-branded as self-preservation, and she was grateful for it.
Jayne Lockwood
#67. It's failure, really, that you grow by, although nobody likes to experience it.
Nick Nolte
#68. Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease, where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function, the end result of which is kidney failure.
Xavier Becerra
#69. As you get older, you have more and more layers of experience to forgive, more layers of heartbreak, more layers of what you might think of as failure.
Marianne Williamson
#70. A person needed to experience real danger or they would never find joy in excelling. There had to be a risk of failure, the chance to die.
Brandon Sanderson
#71. Every failure is an experience builder and a stepping stone towards success.
Debasish Mridha
#73. failure is not absolute, failure grants experience, experience prevents failure
Adam
#74. When luck hits you hard with Failure; hit it back softly with your Success!
Naila Tennyson
#75. I would replace most foreign aid with a tax credit for businesses to invest. I think U.S. bureaucrats giving foreign bureaucrats money is a guaranteed failure. And we've had about 50 years' experience at failing with foreign aid.
Newt Gingrich
#76. If you want to experience all of the successes and pleasure in life, you have to be willing to accept all the pain and failure that comes with it.
Mat Hoffman
#77. You shouldn't be afraid of failure - when something fails, you think, 'What did I learn from that experience? I can do better next time.' Then kill that project and move on to the next. Don't get disappointed.
Niklas Zennstrom
#78. We all deal with failure. If you're lucky to have a long career, it's part of the experience.
David Henry Hwang
#79. I'm a secular priest ordained by training, experience, and, most important, the willingness to accept the mantle of command. That willingness encompasses the realization that failure is easy, and such failure could kill me or, worse, kill someone else.
Laurence Gonzales
#80. Failure, they say, is a growth experience; you learn from failure. I wish that were true. It seems to me the main thing you learn from failure is that it's entirely possible you will have another failure.
Nora Ephron
#81. The meaning of pain is different for different people ... It depends on their age, their experience and their knowledge. But the intensity of it is the same, young or old ... and unfortunately it is inevitable ... just like failure, that results in more pain ...
It's a vicious cycle.
Shreyas Tripathy
#83. You will be wounded many times in your life. You'll make mistakes. Some people will call them failures but I have learned that failure is really God's way of saying, "Excuse me, you're moving in the wrong direction." It's just an experience, just an experience.
Oprah Winfrey
#84. Addiction is a very compelling subject for literature - especially now that it's nearly impossible to come out of adult experience without some addiction - to substances, sure, but also to love, sex, success, failure, power.
Porochista Khakpour
#85. During our lives ... we experience so many setbacks, and fight such a hand-to-hand battle with failure, head down in the rain, just trying to stay upright and to have a little hope.
Lance Armstrong
#86. When most people hit failure, they give up, but good entrepreneurs simply treat failure as a learning experience and use it to fuel and inform their next move.
Trip Adler
#87. No matter what one does, regardless of failure or success, the experience is a form of success in itself.
Jack Ma
#88. Failure is an experience, not a definition.
T.W. Zugger
#89. If we learn from the experience, there is no failure, only delayed victory.
Carrie Chapman Catt
#90. I teach students that what people say about failure in politics is mostly wrong. People always told me, 'They'll praise you on your way up and kick you on your way down.' That wasn't my experience. I can't walk down the street in Toronto without someone coming up and saying hello.
Michael Ignatieff
#91. Failure is the price paid for a lesson. Learn from it.
Shilpa Menon
#93. Our novice runs the risk of failure without additional traits: a strong inclination toward originality, a taste for research, and a desire to experience the incomparable gratification associated with the act of discovery itself.
Santiago Ramon Y Cajal
#94. No matter how loud the sirens or how numerous the hazard signs, we all touch the flames at least once to prove they're hot.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#95. to see failure not as a sign of stupidity but as lack of experience and skill. Your
Carol S. Dweck
#96. Just like in bodybuilding, failure is also a necessary experience for growth in our own lives, for if we're never tested to our limits, how will we know how strong we really are? How will we ever grow?
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#97. Let your experience be not one of failure but one that has taught you new things which you would not have known had you not tried
Epiphana Lewis
#98. I was never afraid of failure after that because, I think, coming that close to death you get kissed. With the years, the actual experience of course fades, but the flavor of it doesn't. I just had a real sense of what choice do I have but to live fully?
Debra Winger
#99. Actions can let you fail or let you succeed. Either way it will never fail to give you experience which is much more important than success or failure.
Debasish Mridha
#100. The best lessons are usually learned from failure. You musn't beat yourself up if you fail - just pick yourself up, learn as much as you can from the experience and get on with the next challenge ... The brave may not live forever, but the cautious never live at all.
Richard Branson
