Failure Quotes and Sayings

Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

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

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

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

A failure is a man who has blundered but is not capable of cashing in on the experience.

Remember, no man is a failure who has friends.

One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

The only real failure in life is the failure to try.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

Life’s real failure is when you do not realize how close you were to success when you gave up.

Success builds character, failure reveals it.

There are no failures – just experiences and your reactions to them.

Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

A man may fall many times, but he won’t be a failure until he says that someone pushed him.

Failure is not falling down but refusing to get up.

You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong.

He who fails to plan, plans to fail.

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

Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, “I have failed three times,” and what happens when he says, “I am a failure.”

I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

150 Comments to “Failure Quotes and Sayings”

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  • 1. callie wrote on 8 July, 2007, 18:24
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    everytime you fail, just remember…that single failure just brought you one step closer to the solution.

  • 2. jess payne wrote on 20 July, 2007, 0:30
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    failure is a word invented to prevent success.

  • 3. Dianne Hunt wrote on 30 July, 2007, 1:27
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    It takes two to Tango, but only one has to ask for the first dance.

  • 4. Trinice Sanders wrote on 10 August, 2007, 17:49
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    The moment you say you can’t— you won’t.

  • 5. Alec wrote on 18 September, 2007, 21:27
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    If you want a rainbow you gotta put up with the rain

  • 6. Linden Lonsdale wrote on 22 September, 2007, 7:59
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    Fear of failure when success is insipid, dooms us to a life of stagnation.

  • 7. Jacob wrote on 26 September, 2007, 13:48
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    Life is like writing in pen if you mess up do your best to fix it out but remember you can never change it.

  • 8. anonymous37 wrote on 30 September, 2007, 18:48
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    Success is standing up just one more time than you’ve fallen down.

  • 9. Heidi wrote on 9 October, 2007, 12:31
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    Failure is like the sun not rising and the moon not shimmering.

  • 10. Ashley. wrote on 10 October, 2007, 17:55
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    Who has a failed.
    Well learn even more.

  • 11. champy ashley wrote on 11 November, 2007, 7:31
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    maybe this pain will lead me to a person who’s always there beside me yet im too blind to see him.

  • 12. Abbi Desrosiers wrote on 15 November, 2007, 6:55
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    So you tried your best and you failed miserably, lesson is don’t try, because you would have tried your hardest.
    Thats what David used to tell me when I failed and was really disappointed in myself, thanks David!

  • 13. Tiffany Embden wrote on 17 November, 2007, 20:11
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    failure happens all the time so dont let it beat you down

  • 14. Tiffany Embden wrote on 17 November, 2007, 20:18
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    Failure happens all the time. It happens everyday in practice. What makes you better is how u react to it.

  • 15. Indo wrote on 27 November, 2007, 8:49
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    Failure is a failure unless you stand up again.

  • 16. Raegan wrote on 28 November, 2007, 15:38
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    if you fall down 7 times, get up 8.

  • 17. soccer sweetie wrote on 5 December, 2007, 4:32
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    Good Timber does not grow with ease, the stronger the wind, the stronger the trees.

  • 18. Katie wrote on 9 December, 2007, 20:19
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    Dreams are like glass,
    they often get shattered

  • 19. evan wrote on 5 January, 2008, 17:56
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    success means getting up just one more time.

  • 20. abby lee ames iowa wrote on 17 January, 2008, 3:41
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    the only way not to fail is not to think of the word and what it means.
    don’t let anybody tell you that your not good enough.
    don’t let people tell you what life is going to be like in the future for you, you can only decide that. its whatever you want to do. don’t follow others dreams, follow yours
    thanks

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