Failure Quotes

Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.

Success is its own reward, but failure is a great teacher too, and not to be feared.

The greatest waste … is failure to use the abilities of people…to learn about their frustrations and about the contributions that they are eager to make.

One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities.

It takes sixty-five thousand errors before you are qualified to make a rocket.

God has never made a failure; that he gave birth to you means you are a success. Success is in your DNA.

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise

Failure comes from ego, greed, envy, fear, imitation. I have success not because I am smart, but because I am rational.

Wherever women gather together failure is impossible.

Take a deep breath, pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start all over again.

Christianity is a rebellion against natural law, a protest against nature. Taken to its logical extreme, Christianity would mean the systematic cultivation of the human failure.

Failure is information-we label it failure, but it's more like, 'This didn't work, I'm a problem solver, and I'll try something else.'

Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.

Being Negative and Lazy is a disease that leads to pain, hardship, depression, poor health and failure. Be pro active, and give a damn to achieve success!

I never blame failure - there are too many complicated situations in life - but I am absolutely merciless toward lack of effort.

What is courage? Courage is the willingness to risk failure...There is only one danger I find in life, and that, indeed, is a real one. You may take too many precautions.

The multitude of people fail because they talk failure.

I think perfection is ugly. Somewhere in the things humans make, I want to see scars, failure, disorder, distortion.

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

The only way you learn is by failure.

Instead of being afraid of the challenge and failure, be afraid of avoiding the challenge and doing nothing

What loss is there in dignity, what worry is there of failure?

Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.

A man can fall many times in life, but he's never a failure until he refuses to get back up.

Failure is not an option for me. Success is all I envision

Self-belief does not necessarily ensure success, but self-disbelief assuredly spawns failure.

Failures are the stairs we climb to reach success.

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

The church that is man-managed instead of God-governed is doomed to failure. A ministry that is college-trained but not Spirit-filled works no miracles.

The real test is not whether you avoid failure, because you won't. It's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it. . .

Failure is not the absence of success. Failure is the neglect of trying.

The best measure of success, is how you deal with failure

In God's economy, nothing is wasted. Through failure, we learn a lesson in humility which is probably needed, painful though it is.

Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.

All failures - neurotics, psychotics, criminals, drunkards, problem children, suicides, perverts, and prostitutes - are failures because they are lacking in social interest

Failure is not an option. Failure is necessary...We try. We fail. We learn. We adjust.

Really, you should always discuss the defeats because you can learn much more from failure than from success.

The guy who takes a chance, who walks the line between the known and unknown, who is unafraid of failure, will succeed.

Never a failure,always a lesson.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most.

Surround yourself with positive people. Also, be a positive person. Root for people. Somebody else's success is not your failure.

If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.

Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn; and you are too sensible a man not to learn from this failure.

I am struck by how sharing our weakness and difficulties is more nourishing to others than sharing our qualities and successes.

Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.

When you hit failure your workout has just begun.

I've observed that if individuals who prevail in a highly competitive environment have any one thing in common besides success, it is failure—and their ability to overcome it.

Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.

There's no success without failure and no winning without losing.