Failure
Quotes - We are all failures
“All
of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail
again. Fail better.”
―
Samuel Beckett, Worstward Ho
“Success
is most often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.”
―
Coco Chanel, Believing in Ourselves: The Wisdom of Women
“Do
not let arrogance go to your head and despair to your heart; do not let
compliments go to your head and criticisms to your heart; do not let success go
to your head and failure to your heart.”
―
Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
“Never
confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.”
― F.
Scott Fitzgerald
“My
past is everything I failed to be.”
―
Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
“Just
because you fail once doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything.”
―
Marilyn Monroe
“Life
is full of screwups. You're supposed to fail sometimes. It's a required part of
the human existance.”
―
Sarah Dessen, Along for the Ride
“Together,
they would watch everything that was so carefully planned collapse, and they
would smile at the beauty of destruction.”
―
Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
“All
men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and
repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.”
―
Sophocles, Antigone
“I
didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.”
―
Benjamin Franklin
“I'm
done with those; regrets are an excuse for people who have failed.”
―
Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story
“I
make mistakes like the next man. In fact, being--forgive me--rather cleverer
than most men, my mistakes tend to be correspondingly huger.”
―
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
“We
are all failures- at least the best of us are.”
―
J.M. Barrie
“If
you fell down yesterday, stand up today.”
―
H.G. Wells
“I'd
rather be partly great than entirely useless.”
―
Neal Shusterman, Unwind
“Try
again. Fail again. Fail better.”
―
Samuel Beckett
“If
you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.”
―
Ken Robinson, The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything
“You’re
not obligated to win. You’re obligated to keep trying. To the best you can do
everyday.”
―
Jason Mraz
“Science,
my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to
make, because they lead little by little to the truth.”
―
Jules Verne, A Journey to the Center of the Earth
“If
we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every
disappointment.”
―
Henry David Thoreau, I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of
Henry D. Thoreau
“Winners
are not afraid of losing. But losers are. Failure is part of the process of
success. People who avoid failure also avoid success.”
―
Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad
“Failure
is a bend in the road, not the end of the road. Learn from failure and keep
moving forward.”
―
Roy T. Bennett
“Failure
is only the opportunity more intelligently to begin again.”
―
Henry Ford
“Everybody
said, "Follow your heart". I did, it got broken”
―
Mysterious Affair At Styles (Hercule Poirot, #1), The
“The
phoenix must burn to emerge.”
―
Janet Fitch, White Oleander
“The
one who falls and gets up is stronger than the one who never tried. Do not fear
failure but rather fear not trying.”
―
Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
“Success
is determined not by whether or not you face obstacles, but by your reaction to
them. And if you look at these obstacles as a containing fence, they become
your excuse for failure. If you look at them as a hurdle, each one strengthens
you for the next.”
―
Ben Carson, Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story
“Successful
people have no fear of failure. But unsuccessful people do. Successful people
have the resilience to face up to failure—learn the lessons and adapt from it.”
―
Roy T. Bennett
“Failure
doesn't define you. It's what you do after you fail that determines whether you
are a leader or a waste of perfectly good air.”
―
Sabaa Tahir, A Torch Against the Night
“The
only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.”
―
Henry Ford
“Rock
bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.”
―
J.K. Rowling
“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, Seriously... I'm Kidding
“If
at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.”
―
Steven Wright
“Success,
after all, loves a witness, but failure can't exist without one.”
―
Junot DÃaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
“Doubt
kills more dreams than failure ever will.”
―
Suzy Kassem
“All
the time you're saying to yourself, 'I could do that, but I won't,' — which is
just another way of saying that you can't.”
―
Richard P. Feynman, Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious
Character
“Failures
are the stairs we climb to reach success.”
―
Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
“How
much you can learn when you fail determines how far you will go into achieving
your goals.”
―
Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
“I
advise you to stop sharing your dreams with people who try to hold you back,
even if they're your parents. Because, if you're the kind of person who senses
there's something out there for you beyond whatever it is you're expected to do
- if you want to be EXTRA-ordinary- you will not get there by hanging around a
bunch of people who tell you you're not extraordinary. Instead, you will
probably become as ordinary as they expect you to be.”
―
Kelly Cutrone, If You Have to Cry, Go Outside: And Other Things Your Mother
Never Told You
“Negative
results are just what I want. They’re just as valuable to me as positive
results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the
ones that don’t.”
―
Thomas A. Edison
“I
think perfection is ugly. Somewhere in the things humans make, I want to see
scars, failure, disorder, distortion.”
―
Yohji Yamamoto
“The
end of a relationship is not always a failure. Sometimes all the love in the
world is not enough to save something. In these cases, it is not a matter of
fault from either person. Some things cannot be, it's as simple as that.”
―
Ashly Lorenzana
“There
is no failure except in no longer trying.”
―
Elbert Hubbard
“Children
have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed of failing, but to get up
and try again. Most of us adults are so afraid, so cautious, so 'safe,' and
therefore so shrinking and rigid and afraid that it is why so many humans fail.
Most middle-aged adults have resigned themselves to failure.”
―
Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
