Top 100 Failure Is Quotes
#1. The first important step in weathering failure is learning not to personalize it.
John C. Maxwell
#2. 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
#3. Failure is a success if you learn from it.
Auliq Ice
#6. Ken Lay has, does and will continue to accept responsibility for the fall of Enron. He was the man at the controls. But failure is not a crime.
Michael Ramsey
#7. The failure-dichotomy principle: failure is good. Failure is not an option. Balance those in your brain.
Donny Deutsch
#8. Failure is an event, something that happens at a specific time on a certain day. If you want to be successful, you have to embrace failure and get back up every single time.
Jeet Banerjee
#9. Warren Buffett said that he would not invest in any business where the owner hasn't failed at least twice. I love that truly wealthy and successful people understand that failure is part of the process.
Steve Harvey
#11. In the ultimate sense, the world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure. In the realization of this, failure is itself eliminated.
Henry Miller
#12. Risk and failure is a part of our equation, and if you are seeing too little failure, you are actually probably not taking enough risks.
Peter Barris
#13. Success is a process, but a failure is a forward step for success.
Debasish Mridha
#14. I failed the LSAT. Basically, if I had not failed, I'd have been a lawyer and there would be no Spanx. I think failure is nothing more than life's way of nudging you that you are off course. My attitude to failure is not attached to outcome, but in not trying. It is liberating.
Sara Blakely
#15. Failure is not the final fall. The will to rise when you fall is fortitude to success.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#17. Failure is not the end; it is an opportunity to begin again.
Debasish Mridha
#18. There is no such thing as failure for an artist, unless failure is the refusal to attempt, the unwillingness to dream.
Laurence Overmire
#19. Failure is the most terrible thing in our business. When we fail, the whole world knows about it.
Desi Arnaz
#20. This book is dedicated to all those who fell by the airside, for nothing is wasted, and every apparent failure is but a challenge to others.
Amy Johnson
#21. Liver failure is the easiest way to say 'no' to alcohol.
Bauvard
#22. A fear of losing, of failure is a fear of success.
T Jay Taylor
#24. Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
Alan Perlis
#25. The failure of the United Nations - My failure is maybe, in retrospective, that I was not enough aggressive with the members of the Security Council.
Boutros Boutros-Ghali
#26. Success is most often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.
Coco Chanel
#29. Our success or failure is not in the hands of our leaders. It is in our hands.
Alan Keyes
#30. Success could be defined as the ability to go on persevering even when it seems that there are no possibilities left. Each failure is not truly a failure, just another possibility explored and found wanting. We never truly run out of possibilities for success, just imagination to find them.
Jennifer Megan Varnadore
#31. It's really a lovely feeling to write knowing that failure is taken off the table because if it's bad you just never show it to anyone.
Peter Morgan
#32. Capitalism without failure is like religion without sin. Bankruptcies and losses concentrate the mind on prudent behavior.
Allan H. Meltzer
#33. Fear of failure is one of the principal fears creating obstacles in the way of successful self-actualization and achieving goals
Sunday Adelaja
#34. From a very early age, the message is drilled into our heads: Failure is bad; failure means you didn't study or prepare; failure means you slacked off or - worse! - aren't smart enough to begin with. Thus, failure is something to be ashamed of.
Ed Catmull
#35. Failure is hard, but success is far more dangerous. If you're successful at the wrong thing, the mix of praise and money and opportunity can lock you in forever.
Po Bronson
#36. Often, failure is success trying to be born in a bigger way, and persistence helps you to experience that greater result.
Catherine Ponder
#37. Failure is not a disgrace if you have sincerely done your best.
Napoleon Hill
#38. Failure is part of success, an integral part. Everybody gets knocked down. Knowing it will happen and what you must do when it does is the first step back.
Bill Walsh
#39. Failure is the only thing I've ever been a success at.
Bob Hope
#40. Success is about being your best self, not about being better than others; failure is an opportunity, not a condemnation; effort is the key to success.
Carol S. Dweck
#41. Failure is our best teacher but fear of failure is our worst enemy.
Debasish Mridha
#42. We now live in a world where the only thing to have is success, but failure is marvelous. It's fertiliser, it's like living fertiliser, because you're forced on yourself.
Rupert Everett
#44. Failure is ... the highway to success.
Og Mandino
#45. To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare to fail ... failure is his world and the shrink from it desertion
Marcel Proust
#46. Consistently failing is nothing more than an indication that you are progressing. The more we fail the farther we will see. Failure is not an option; it is the only option. A master is a master because he has had the courage to fail and the wisdom to learn from it.
Chris Matakas
#47. Fear of failure is closely connected with the apprehension of failure in any field of life, such as career, business, education of private life
Sunday Adelaja
#49. Successful leaders have learned that no failure is final, whether his own failure or someone else's. No one is perfect, and we cannot be right all the time. Failures and even feelings of inadequacy can provoke humility and serve to remind a leader who is really in charge.
J. Oswald Sanders
#50. Fear of failure is a far worse condition than failure itself, because it kills off possibilities.
Michael Eisner
#51. 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
#52. Failure is also a test of dedication. It is a way to measure what you are passionate about and how deep that passion runs and how dependable it is. Science may seem methodical but it demands passion.
Stuart Firestein
#53. The only way to combat failure is to see it as an opportunity to improve your direction.
Todd Duncan
#54. Failure is delay, but not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead-end street.
William Arthur Ward
#55. There are moments in business and in life when you have to say, "Failure is not an option."
Donny Deutsch
#56. The only way to guarantee failure is to quit.--Sue Cameron
Sue Cameron
#57. Failure is part of being human, and it is definitely part of being married.
Ada Calhoun
#58. Failure is an option. It's what you do with the failure that makes you who you are. Our failures mold us. I have failed at several things in my life. What sets some of us apart, is that when we fail, we can't sleep at night. It haunts us until we have our time at redemption.
David Goggins
#59. Pain is a better teacher than pleasure.
Poverty is a better teacher than prosperity.
Failure is a better teacher than success.
Life is a better teacher than university.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#61. In our culture, we grow up thinking that failure is a terrible thing, that it's a setback, or worse, the end. Often it turns out to be the beginning of something better.
Katherine Schwarzenegger
#63. When failure is demonized, people will try to avoid it at all costs - even when it represents nothing more than a temporary setback.
Steven D. Levitt
#64. Making a mistake is falling down; failure is not getting up again.
Helen Keller
#65. Failure is the opportunity to begin again, only more intelligently.
Henry Ford
#67. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success ...
John Keats
#69. The chance of failure is almost always better than the guarantee of never knowing.
Aaron Levie
#70. It's a new day. Yesterday's failure is redeemed at the sunrise
Todd Stocker
#72. If one insists on calling all unsuccessful efforts failures the meaning of failure is really quite benign. When trying anything new or taking on any challenge, unsuccessful efforts are an essential aspect of skill building.
Michael Josephson
#73. Low aim, not failure, is the crime.
Bruce Lee
#75. Failure is a form of quicksand. Take immediate action or you'll be sucked under.
Max Lucado
#76. Failure is a key part of entrepreneurship, but, as with many things in life, attitude impacts outcome
Brad Feld
#77. Keep writing. The only failure is in not trying at all.
Erzabet Bishop
#78. Failure is never a bus-stop for students, it is just a check point for all successful student
Emmanuel Peter Obong
#79. Success is never permanent, and failure is never final.
Mike Ditka
#80. The only risk of failure is promotion.
Scott Adams
#81. The first stair to failure is ignorance. Keep learning by leaning on the lap of information and you'll take the lead!
Israelmore Ayivor
#82. Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.
Hank Aaron
#83. The terror of failure can make you feel like a failure. So a bunch of people think you're not very good at your thing. How much do you invest in what they say? How much do you care? Failure is not putting yourself on the line.
Dylan Moran
#84. For hitter or pitcher, rookie or veteran, baseball has long been defined by failure rather than success, the old a-.300-hitter-gets-out-7-times-in-10-at-bats truism. Dealing with and managing failure is an essential - some would say the essential - part of the job description.
Barry Svrluga
#85. [C]apitalism without financial failure is not capitalism at all, but a kind of socialism for the rich.
James Grant
#86. Failure is a part of life. Success teaches you nothing, but failure teaches you resilience. It teaches you to pick yourself up and try again.
Sarah Morgan
#88. In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option. We need to change this attitude toward failure - and celebrate the idea that only by falling on our collective business faces do we learn enough to succeed down the road.
Naveen Jain
#89. Embracing failure is the most important trait I've developed in my career. I have tried to learn from my failures, and I believe it has made me stronger, more confident and more resilient.
Reshma Saujani
#90. Oh sweetheart, I know what failure is...But as hard as it is, you have to lean in to those feelings. You hadn't have much failure in your life, Sarah. It takes practice to get good at it. It hurts like holy hell, but it's important. It's the door that will lead you into your future.
Molly Newman
#91. Failure is a necessary ingredient for success.
Bran Ferren
#92. I guess just accepting failure is the thing. I don't really look at it as a failure. I look at them as learning lessons and things you grow from but not really a failure, because that's life.
Daniella Alonso
#93. Failure is a fundamental piece of success.
Ben Tolosa
#95. Failure is where success likes to hide in plain sight.
Scott Adams
#96. To keep on trying in spite of disappointment and failure is the only way to keep young and brave. Failures become victories if they make us wise-hearted.
Helen Keller
#97. Sometimes the difference between success and failure is simply the degree to which you crave one over the other.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#98. Failure is an event, not a person. You are NOT a failure!
Craig Groeschel
#99. When God looks at you, he doesn't see you; he sees the One who surrounds you. That means that failure is not a concern for you. Your victory is secure.
Max Lucado
#100. There is a lot of difference between failure and defeat. Failure is when you are defeated and neither learn nor contribute anything.
Hubert H. Humphrey
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