Popular Quotes of Failure
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| S.No | Quotes | Author |
| 1 | But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated. | Ernest Hemingway |
| 2 | Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. | Calvin Coolidge |
| 3 | A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying. | B. F. Skinner |
| 4 | Every failure is a step to success. | William Whewell |
| 5 | It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure. | Bill Gates |
| 6 | Success is not built on success. It’s built on failure. It’s built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe. | Sumner Redstone |
| 7 | Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something. | Morihei Ueshiba |
| 8 | Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive. | Andy Grove |
| 9 | Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. | Truman Capote |
| 10 | I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. | Thomas A. Edison |
| 11 | An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail. | Edwin Land |
| 12 | Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit. | Napoleon Hill |
| 13 | The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| 14 | 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 |
| 15 | The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success. | Paramahansa Yogananda |
| 16 | A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else. | John Burroughs |
| 17 | Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again. | Richard Branson |
| 18 | Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence. | Colin Powell |
| 19 | Mistakes are the portals of discovery. | James Joyce |
| 20 | It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default. | J. K. Rowling |
| 21 | I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying. | Michael Jordan |
| 22 | Failure is always an option. | Adam Savage |
| 23 | Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery. | Winston Churchill |
| 24 | It’s best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes. | Anne Baxter |
| 25 | Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure… than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. | Theodore Roosevelt |
| 26 | Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday. | Wilma Rudolph |
| 27 | Remember that failure is an event, not a person. | Zig Ziglar |
| 28 | 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 |
| 29 | You always pass failure on your way to success. | Mickey Rooney |
| 30 | Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. | Thomas A. Edison |
| 31 | Show me a good and gracious loser and I’ll show you a failure. | Knute Rockne |
| 32 | Failure is a word unknown to me. | Muhammad Ali Jinnah |
| 33 | Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out. | Edwin Markham |
| 34 | Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be. | John Wooden |
| 35 | My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure. | Abraham Lincoln |
| 36 | If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style. | Quentin Crisp |
| 37 | If you learn from defeat, you haven’t really lost. | Zig Ziglar |
| 38 | Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future. | Swami Sivananda |
| 39 | I really don’t think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don’t mind the failure but I can’t imagine that I’d forgive myself if I didn’t try. | Nikki Giovanni |
| 40 | Success comes when people act together; failure tends to happen alone. | Deepak Chopra |
| 41 | Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable. | Coco Chanel |
| 42 | You make mistakes. Mistakes don’t make you. | Maxwell Maltz |
| 43 | If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative. | Woody Allen |
| 44 | There are some defeats more triumphant than victories. | Michel de Montaigne |
| 45 | Ambition is the last refuge of the failure. | Oscar Wilde |
| 46 | Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success. | C. S. Lewis |
| 47 | The wisest of the wise may err. | Aeschylus |
| 48 | You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure. | Zig Ziglar |
| 49 | I don’t believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process. | Oprah Winfrey |
| 50 | The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed. | Richard Brinsley Sheridan |
| 51 | The only risk of failure is promotion. | Scott Adams |
| 52 | There is no such thing as failure. There are only results. | Tony Robbins |
| 53 | Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments. | Henry Ward Beecher |
| 54 | Success isn’t permanent and failure isn’t fatal. | Mike Ditka |
| 55 | Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure. | Benjamin Disraeli |
| 56 | My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them. | Jack Kerouac |
| 57 | Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul. | Douglas MacArthur |
| 58 | Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out. | Benjamin Franklin |
| 59 | Losing is no disgrace if you’ve given your best. | Jim Palmer |
| 60 | Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are. | Norman Vincent Peale |