These are 45 of the top failure quotes I have found in my research.
As a leader, you constantly need to speak and remind your team about principles of success and quotes add credibility to your speeches. By using sayings that great leaders and wise men of old have used before, you add the extra impact to the point you’re trying to make.
Failure is a stepping stone to success. As you take the journey toward your vision or goal, you will undoubtedly face many setbacks and failures. Use these failure quotes to remind yourself and your team that failure is never final.
45 Best Failure Quotes
In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
Bill Cosby
I’ve come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy. Tony Robbins
Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
Zig Ziglar
The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
Buddha
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
Abraham Lincoln
Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.
Benjamin Franklin
Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God.
Charles Horton Cooley
Success is 99 percent failure.
Soichiro Honda
Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.
Steve Jobs
I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.
Michael Jordan
Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.
Coco Chanel
There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.
Tony Robbins
No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.
Napoleon Hill
Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.
Napoleon Hill
I don’t believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.
Oprah Winfrey
Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
Dale Carnegie
It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
Bill Gates
Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
Colin Powell
A minute’s success pays the failure of years.
Robert Browning
A life which does not go into action is a failure.
Arnold J. Toynbee
A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.
Elbert Hubbard
If you’re doing your best, you won’t have any time to worry about failure.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
I believe in trusting men, not only once but twice – in giving a failure another chance.
James Cash Penney
A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
John Burroughs
The freedom to fail is vital if you’re going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.
Michael Korda
If you’re 40 years old and you’ve never had a failure, you’ve been deprived.
Gloria Swanson
Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
Walter Scott
No man is a failure who is enjoying life.
William Feather
We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.
Charles Kettering
Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.
Og Mandino
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
George Edward Woodberry
You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don’t try to forget the mistakes, but you don’t dwell on it. You don’t let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.
Johnny Cash
There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
George Eliot
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
I’d rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.
George Burns
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
John Dewey
No man can be a failure if he thinks he’s a success; If he thinks he is a winner, then he is.
Robert Service
Failure doesn’t mean you are a failure it just means you haven’t succeeded yet.
Robert H. Schuller
My reputation grows with every failure.
George Bernard Shaw
There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.
Kin Hubbard
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
William James
If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.
Robert H. Schuller
Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive.
Scott Adams
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Winston Churchill
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