Failure Quotes, Proverbs & Sayings



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

The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.
Sven Goran Eriksson

If you’re doing your best, you won’t have any time to worry about failure.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (Quoted in P.S. I Love You)

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

Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Thomas A. Edison

Failure is the first step to success.
Anonymous

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
C.S. Lewis

Failure is an event, never a person.
William D. Brown

Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.
Frederick Smith

Failure is not the worst thing in the world, the very worst is not to try.
Anonymous

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

Failure is inevitable. Success is elusive.
Steven Spielberg

Failure is the tuition you pay for success.
Walter Brunell

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

All my successes have been built on my failures.
Benjamin Disraeli

Failure doesn’t mean you are a failure… it just means you haven’t succeeded yet.
Robert Schuller

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

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.
Elbert Hubbard

Failure is not falling down but refusing to get up.
Chinese Proverb

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Truman Capote

Failure is nature’s plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.
Napoleon Hill

Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
Roger W. Babson

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
Henry Ford

You can’t have any successes unless you can accept failure.
George Cukor

Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
Jim Rohn

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

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Robert Francis Kennedy

Success is never final; failure is never fatal.
Joe Paterno

Success isn’t permanent, and failure isn’t fatal.
Mike Ditka

The only time you don’t fail is the last time you try anything – and it works.
William Strong

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