Failure Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

48 Failure Quotes
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“The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.”
Sven Goran Eriksson Quotes
“The only real failure in life is the failure to try.”
Frederick Smith Quotes
“There are no failures - just experiences and your reactions to them.”
Tom Krause Quotes
“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.”
Colin Powell Quotes
“Life's real failure is when you do not realize how close you were to success when you gave up.”
Dave Checkett Quotes
“Try and fail, but don't fail to try.”
Stephen Kaggwa Quotes
“My imperfections and failures are as much a blessing from God as my successes and my talents and I lay them both at his feet.”
Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
“I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong”
Benjamin Franklin Quotes
“When all else fails, duck. It's not practical, but it can be momentarily comforting.”
Unattributed Author Quotes
Source: UNIT Procedures Manual, Zen Division.
“[Oxford] Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs and unpopular names and impossible loyalties.”
Matthew Arnold Quotes
Source: Essays in Criticism (closing paragraph of preface)
“How are the mighty fallen in the midst of battle! O Jonathan, thou wast slain in thine high places.”
Bible Quotes
Source: II Samuel (ch. II, v. 25)
“In the lexicon of youth, which Fate reserves for a bright manhood, there is no such word As--fail!”
Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton Quotes
Source: Richelieu (act II, sc. 2)
“Never say "Fail" again.”
Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton Quotes
Source: Richelieu (act II, sc. 2)
“He that is down needs fear no fall He that is low, no pride.”
John Bunyan Quotes
Source: Pilgrim's Progress (pt. II)
“Now a' is done that men can do, And a' is done in vain.”
Robert Burns Quotes
Source: It Was a' for our Rightfu' King
“He that is down can fall no lower.”
Samuel Butler (1) Quotes
Source: Hudibras (pt. I, canto III, l. 878)
“Men do not stumble over mountains, but over molehills.”
Samuel Butler (1) Quotes
Source: Hudibras (pt. I, canto III, l. 878)
“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
Samuel Butler (1) Quotes
Source: Hudibras (pt. I, canto III, l. 878)
“The camel set out to get him horns and was shorn of his ears. [Lat., Camelus desiderans cornua etiam aures perdidit.]”
Desiderius Gerhard Erasmus Quotes
Source: Adagia--Chil (III, cent. V, 8, heading)
“He ploughs in sand, and sows against the wind, That hopes for constant love of woman kind.”
Thomas Fuller Quotes
Source: Medicina Gymnastica (vol. X, p, 7)
“Failed the bright promise of your early day?”
Bishop Reginald Heber Quotes
Source: Palestine (l. 113)
“We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.”
Bishop Reginald Heber Quotes
Source: Palestine (l. 113)
“Greatly begin! Though thou have time But for a line, be that sublime-- Not failure, but low aim is crime.”
James Russell Lowell Quotes
Source: For an Autograph
“You may boldly say, you did not plough Or trust the barren and ungrateful sands With the fruitful grain of your religious counsels.”
Philip Massinger Quotes
Source: The Renegado
“"All honor to him who shall win the prize," The world has cried for a thousand years; But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears.”
Joaquin Miller (pseudonym of Cincinnatus Hiner Miller) Quotes
Source: For Those Who Fail