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Failure Quotes

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

Success is never final and failure never fatal.

Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet.

Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.

If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.

Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.

The question in life is not whether you get knocked down. You will. The question is, are you ready to get back up... and fight for what you believe in.

To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure, but risk must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

If you don't make mistakes, you aren't really trying.

Lack of will power has caused more failure than lack of intelligence or ability.

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

All must fall, and those who stand the highest fall hardest.

Every adversity carries with it the seeds of a greater benefit!

One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat. Every person is guilty of this mistake at one time or another.

Difficult situations often bring out qualities in us that otherwise might not have risen to the surface, such as courage, faith, and our need for one another. All of our experiences can help us to grow.

You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely.

To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.

Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat, he would have never known any greater victory.

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.

If you don’t fall now and again, it’s a sign your playing it safe.

The thing to try when all else fails is-- again.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

The glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time you fall.