Failure Quotes, Proverbs & Sayings - Page 2



I wasn’t afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.
Anne Baxter

The only true failure lies in failure to start.
Harold Blake Walker

Failures are made only by those who fail to dare, not by those who dare to fail.
Lester B. Pearson

Failure is success if we learn from it.
Malcolm S. Forbes

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don’t fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
Jim Rohn

There is no failure except in no longer trying.
Elbert Hubbard

Nothing fails like success because we don’t learn from it. We learn only from failure.
Kenneth Boudling

We seem to gain wisdom more readily through our failures than through our successes. We always think of failure as the antithesis of success, but it isn’t. Success often lies just the other side of failure.
Leo F. Buscaglia

Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Sir Winston Churchill

Every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success.
Napoleon Hill

He who fails to plan, plans to fail.
Proverb

A failure teaches you that something can’t be done—that way.
Thomas A. Edison

The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed.
Lloyd Jones

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

Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something.
Morihei Ueshiba

Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.
Og Mandino

Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.
W. Clement Stone

Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.
John Keats

The only real failure in life is one not learned from.
Anthony J. D’Angelo

It is a mistake to suppose that people succeed through success; they often succeed through failures.
Samuel Smiles

Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.
Jawaharlal Nehru

Try and fail, but don’t fail to try.
Stephen Kaggwa

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

If you accept failure as an opportunity to learn, it will change your whole perspective.”
Catherine Pulsifer

We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
Samuel Smiles

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

It’s how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success.
David Feherty

Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.
H. Ross Perot

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one’s ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act.
Andre Malraux

Failing to prepare is preparing to fail.
Mike Murdock

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