Top 100 When You Fail Quotes
#1. Maybe we don't put our young people in situations often enough where they're allowed to fail. When you fail you gain experience, and with enough experience, you don't fail as often.
Colin Powell
#2. When you fail to tell the truth, you are kept bound to the past in ways that devastate your soul.
Debbie Ford
#3. It's bad when you fail morally. It's worse when you don't repent.
Luis Palau
#4. I think any time people behave in a way that's truly them, then they'll never fail. You get in trouble when you try to copy others.
Gabrielle Reece
#5. When the preacher says it's for better or worse, you're so blinded by the possibility of better you fail to see the reality of worse.
Bette Lee Crosby
#7. When you aim for the stars even if you fail you'll be a falling star, and that's wish-fulfilling material.
Kevin Focke
#8. It is strange the way the ignorant and inexperienced so often and so undeservedly succeed when the informed and the experienced fail. All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.
Mark Twain
#9. When it comes to our children, we do not have the luxury of despair. If we rise, they will rise with us every time, no matter how many times we've fallen before. I hope you will remember that the next time you fail ... Remembering that is the most important work as parents we can possibly do.
Cheryl Strayed
#10. Relationships don't only fail because the person you're with turns out to be the wrong person; they also fail when you yourself aren't yet the person you need to be.
Paul Hudson
#11. The history of the world is the history of a few men who had faith in themselves. That faith calls out the divinity within. You can do anything. You fail only when you do not strive sufficiently to manifest infinite power. As soon as a man or a nation loses faith, death comes.
Swami Vivekananda
#12. When you go to meetings or auditions and you fail to prepare, prepare to fail. It is simple but true.
Paula Abdul
#13. Failure of your first attempt does not mean you can't be a winner of great battles; it rather means, you must trigger only when your target is in focus.
Israelmore Ayivor
#14. We will all fail in life, but nobody has to be a failure. Failing at a thing doesn't make you a failure. You are only a failure when you quit trying.
Joyce Meyer
#15. The pain when you fail is not to convince you to stop, but to be overcome so you can find success there and move on.
A.M. Sawyer
#16. Video is so primal. When you can hear a person talking about the project, and can see his or her passion, it is unbelievably powerful. I don't want to make it seem like projects without a video fail.
Perry Chen
#17. You are likely to fall when you stop paddling your bicycle. Such is life. As long as you don't give up, you will never end up failing!
Israelmore Ayivor
#18. When failure imprisons you for not doing what you should have done, you have no option than to bail yourself on the promise of trying again! Try again!
Israelmore Ayivor
#19. You know that you're truly successful when you can afford to fail.
Henry Mosquera
#20. When a man repeats a promise again and again, he means to fail you.
Edmund Fuller
#21. Do you have any sort of plan?" Jack asked.
"Not really."
"Eh, just as well. It'll be less of a disappointment when you fail.
Kiersten White
#22. Ah, that's an argument I hear often," Father Alberto said. "How can a God exist when it seems so many have been forsaken? But you fail to realize, son, without the bad we can't truly appreciate the good.
J.M. Darhower
#23. When you say the name Gilligan, you know who that is. If a show is good, if it's written well, you should be able to erase the names of the characters saying the lines and still be able to know who said it. If you can't do that, the show will fail.
Sherwood Schwartz
#24. It's much easier to fail when you're in the pilot, early stage, when it's less expensive and you're exploring than when you're way out the door and you've spent all this money. Industry is smart: structured to have skunkworks and pilot phases.
Megan Smith
#25. Painting, art in general, enchants me. It is my life. What else matters? When you put all your soul into a work, all that is noble in you, you cannot fail to find a kindred soul who understands you, and you do not need a host of such spirits. Is not that all an artist should wish for?
Camille Pissarro
#28. When everyone failed to hear my screams, you are the only one who heard my silence.
Akshay Vasu
#29. Failure plus failure plus failure equals success. You only fail when you quit.
Jack Hyles
#30. When you lose, you're more motivated. When you win, you fail to see your mistakes and probably no one can tell you anything.
Venus Williams
#31. When you are free from self-doubt, you fail better. You accept criticism and listen.
Jennifer Lee
#32. To truly fail in life is to never try. When you fall on your face, it is an opportunity for you to find the road again. It may remind you how hard the road is, but you will never forget its presence once you make contact.
H.L. Stephens
#33. You're supposed to raise your friends up, not be happy when they fail.
Jen Calonita
#34. When you fail, fail, and then find your 'No' in life, your Next Opportunity. When you find your next opportunity, say:
Yes ... always yes.
Jessica Brody
#35. What I believe is that when it comes to big things in life, there are no accidents. Everything happens for a reason. You are here for a reason
and it's not to fail and die.
Ransom Riggs
#36. When you fail, embrace it. Bleed. Get hurt. Lose your religion. That's the only way you will do amazing things.
Vishwas Mudagal
#37. When you work as actors in this business, you spend a lot of time apart. That's why a lot of marriages fail. It's not because of Hollywood, it's because you don't spend time together.
Boris Kodjoe
#38. A time will come, Casey had told him in those early white-knuckle days, when your mental defenses will fail and the only thing left standing between you and a drink will be your Higher Power.
Stephen King
#39. When you come off 'The X Factor,' you're more likely to be a failure than a success because people almost want you to fail. There's this kind of feeling that you're separate from everyone else. You get it from artists, people in the industry, people at record labels.
Olly Murs
#40. The most valuable lessons in life do not come when you are walking or running. They come when you fall down. You better take them and rise up!
Israelmore Ayivor
#41. Dear sirs,
The cold war isn't over. When national borders fail, the epidermis is the last line of defense. We are counting on you.
Sincerely,
Patriot
Benson Bruno
#42. It's not words that fail, it's the people who wield them. We have no power over life and death, we are subject to pain and disease and misery, but we command words. When you think about it, words are all we really have.
Jessica Zafra
#43. I believe in creative failing - to contine to write poems that fail and fail and fail until a day comes when you've got a thousand poems behind you and you're relaxed and you finally write a good poem.
Ray Bradbury
#44. You will fail at this. Often. Why is that a problem? In fact, this is a boon. It's a boon because when others fail to be remarkable or make a difference or share their art or have an impact, they will give up.
Seth Godin
#45. There is nothing your highest self wants more than peace. This peace makes you feel worthy of all of the richest blessings of the universe, and when you radiate this out into the world, it is returned to you without fail.
Wayne Dyer
#46. When you're up against a trouble, meet it squarely, face to face. Lift your chin and set your shoulders, plant your feet and take a brace. When it's vain to try to dodge it, do the best that you can do. You may fail, but you may conquer. See it through!
Edgar Guest
#47. When you see something wrong and fail to do anything about it, even in the smallest effort, you accept the wrong.
D'Andre Lampkin
#48. When you go independent, if you fail, you're totally responsible for it. If you succeed, you're totally responsible for it. You are responsibly for who you are ... and what you do and what you make.
Tablo
#49. When you accept that you may fail, you can accomplish anything. Fear can be so debilitating. Every day I'm faced with difficult decisions, but losing the fear helps me make the right choices.
Linda Kaplan Thaler
#50. When you are success oriented it is much easier to succeed than to fail.
Debasish Mridha
#51. You just have this freedom when you're younger - this lack of concern to fail or do anything wrong. It comes with an ease that I've found has kind of deteriorated over time.
Hayden Panettiere
#52. If you think of feelings you have when you are awed by something - for example, knowing that elements in your body trace to exploded stars - I call that a spiritual reaction, speaking of awe and majesty, where words fail you.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#53. You will fail, and when you do it's imperative that you not hope for things to get easier, but instead harness a desire for you to be better.
Noel DeJesus
#54. You fail by default when you live so cautiously you never fail.
J.K. Rowling
#55. Being brave means that knowing when you fail, you won't fail forever.
Lana Del Rey
#56. Treat kindly every miserable truth that knocks begging at your door, otherwise you will some day fail to recognize Truth Himself when He comes in rags.
Austin O'Malley
#57. Trust in God alone, and lean not on the needs of human help. Be not surprised when friends fail you; it is a failing world. Never reckon upon immutability in man: inconstancy you may reckon upon without fear of disappointment.
Charles Spurgeon
#59. You may lose paradise, but gain heaven when you rise up and repent. The success that comes after a temporal failure is an amazing spectacular!
Israelmore Ayivor
#60. We aint a sharp species. We kill each other over arguments about what happens when you die, then fail to see the fucking irony in that.
Justin Halpern
#61. They do everything to make you fail; but when you win they all start kissing your shoes to be part of the game.
M.F. Moonzajer
#62. Even when you self-destruct, you want to fail more, lose more, die more than others, stink more than others.
Don DeLillo
#63. Life is a practice. When you 'fail,' you can immediately begin practicing again.
Bryant McGill
#64. How can one not succumb and allow one's courage to fail when everything is shut tight, when all meaningful things are walled up, and when you constantly knock against bricks, as against the walls of a prison?
Bruno Schulz
#66. Even when you fuck up, even when you fail everyone around you. You have to let them forgive you, and you have to forgive yourself.
Kit Rocha
#67. I think a lot of us think we've failed when we've put the weight back on, but when this happens. you have to pay attention because you can actually learn something. You didn't fail. You just need to stay conscious and know where you went wrong and try again.
Jessie Pavelka
#68. When people call something a 'fail,' it's because you tried to accomplish something but didn't make it. If you're just walking down the street and something bad just happens to you, that's not really a fail on your part. You might call that situation a fail.
Ben Huh
#69. Being brave means knowing that when you fail, you don't fail forever.
Lana Del Rey
#70. Don't make a religion of reason and logic. Because in the passage of time reason may fail you and when it does, you may find yourself taking refuge in madness.
Anne Rice
#71. Common sense comes from experience, and kids need to fail as well as succeed in order to learn it. It's difficult to develop common sense when you spend a lot of time in your room where nothing much happens.
Marilyn Vos Savant
#72. 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
#73. Cling, therefore, to Jesus in life and death; trust yourself to the glory of Him who alone can help you when all others fail.
Thomas A Kempis
#74. Sometimes when you fail, it allows you the opportunity to grow more motivation and get more intense about your training.
Abby Wambach
#75. When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
#76. There are always going to be times when it doesn't flow as much as you were hoping. So of course I'm going to fail. And when I do fail I hope I fail better and better, again and again. I am happy to fail.
Joseph Fiennes
#77. Those who broadcast your messy failures are the same people who will telecast your mass fortunes. But this can only happen when you accept your responsibility to turn your life around!
Israelmore Ayivor
#78. So what if you fail? At least you'll know what not to do when you try again.
Venus Williams
#79. How strongly do you believe in what you want to do? How prepared are you live and die for it? You are not likely to succeed when you always doubt your capacity to reach higher heights in your pursuits.
Israelmore Ayivor
#80. Do you know the opportunity you get when you fail? It is starting again - an opportunity to perform better.
Ogwo David Emenike
#81. It's hazardous, though, being that much to someone. When you're the yardstick that everything else is measure against, eventually, you just fail.
Brenna Yovanoff
#82. As far as I'm concerned, the spiritual life is just like any other endeavor-you can succeed or fail. And when the goal is actual evolution beyond ego in an intersubjective context, success or failure is plain for all to see.
Andrew Cohen
#83. Spending time looking for what is missing in your life is futile; if you fail to look within yourself. When we challenge everything we believe we are, we reveal that which we never knew about our own selves.
Nicolas G. Janovsky
#84. I would warn against holsters with devices for quick-draw. Devices always fail when you need them most.
William Powell
#85. Because of Jesus' finished work of the cross, He will never be angry with you nor rebuke you even when you fail.
Joseph Prince
#86. The best way not to fail again is to be absolutely positive that when you do it this time, you're going to do it right.
Burt Reynolds
#87. When you really work hard for something that you genuinely and truly love, and you don't want it to fail, it's a good feeling to see it do good.
Fetty Wap
#88. So when life throws a curve ball, do your best to hit it and run to first base. If it tries to get you out of the game, do your best to get to the home plate. Yes there will be those looking for you to fail, but there are also those who are cheering you on. If not then cheer for yourself!
Atlanta Hunter
#89. I will never fail to inflate my lungs for you when you're a hundred miles deep, heading headfirst towards a telephone pole - screaming - because you have pulled out all your own brakes.
Shinji Moon
#90. I'm not perfect. Remember that, and try to forgive me when I fail you.
Elizabeth Lowell
#91. When did you get so peppy?" she shouted.
"Ever since I assumed I was dead, then I suddenly wasn't."
"Then remind me to try to kill you once in a while," she snapped. "If I succeed, it will make me feel better, and if I fail, it will make you feel better. Everyone wins!
Brandon Sanderson
#92. When you treat your failures as lessons, you can never fail.
Udai Yadla
#93. When you confuse personal love and cosmic heroism you are bound to fail in both spheres. The impossibility of the heroism undermines the love, even if it is real. This double failure is what produces the sense of utter despair that we see in modern man ... Love, then, is seen a religious problem
Ernest Becker
#94. Repent when you fail, and immediately seek God's forgiveness and restoration. Sin breaks our fellowship with God.
Billy Graham
#95. When you fail to see something, that doesn't mean I'm hiding it.
Carolyn Hax
#96. Flip-flopping is kind of an easy thing to identify. During a recent convention, we heard an irate Senator make an angry speech declaring that it is not what you say but, rather, what you do that counts. You flip-flop when you make promises and fail to fulfill them.
Frank Lautenberg
#97. Think back over your day and consider when God spoke. How did you sense it, or why did you fail to sense it at the time? It is often between the lines and in the empty places where we hear God.
Lonni Collins Pratt
#98. You are your own anchor, Ryke. When you fail, you hurt yourself more than anyone else. Do you want to keep burning or are you going to let yourself rise
Krista Ritchie
#99. I think everyone has a certain kind of formula in their life. When you deviate from that formula, you're going to fail big or you're gonna win big.
Sylvester Stallone
#100. Stand still, true poet that you are! I know you; let me try and draw you. Some night you'll fail us: when afar You rise, remember one man saw you, Knew you, and named a star!
Robert Browning
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