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87 Best Failure Sayings to Motivate You

In this post, we are going to share with you a list of failure sayings that will motivate you to keep trying and achieve your goals instead of giving up or getting depressed.

Whatever we try to do whether in business, studies or in any other walk of life, we don’t succeed at first and face failures. But after failing, we get depressed and stop trying to do it again.

Remember failure is a part of success and you must find the reasons for your failure and should try to fix them to succeed. Read these failure sayings from wise minds all around the world, learn from them and make a new plan to start again and to achieve your goals and dreams.

Contents

  1. Failure Sayings
  2. Short Failure Sayings
  3. Top 10 Failure Sayings

Failure Sayings

 

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. —Winston Churchill

 

It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure. —Bill Gates

 

Success is most often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable. —Coco Chanel

 

If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original. —Ken Robinson

 

There is no such thing as failure. There are only results. —Tony Robbins

 

I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying. —Michael Jordan

 

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

 

Just because you fail once doesn’t mean you’re gonna fail at everything. —Marilyn Monroe

 

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

 

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

 

An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail. —Edwin Land

 

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The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows. —Buddha

 

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. —Winston Churchill

 

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. —Theodore Roosevelt

 

I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. —Thomas A. Edison

 

Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures. —Bernard Baruch

 

Success, after all, loves a witness, but failure can’t exist without one. —Junot Díaz

 

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

 

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently. —Henry Ford

 

There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure. —Paulo Coelho

 

I can’t give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time. —Herbert Bayard Swope

 

If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate. —Thomas J. Watson

 

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

 

Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits. —Robert Louis Stevenson

 

Poor control of your emotions can lead to making stupid mistakes or failures in your life. —Stephen Hall

 

You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure. —Zig Ziglar

 

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself. —Charlie Chaplin

 

Success is most often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable. —Coco Chanel

 

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

 

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

 

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 man may fall many times, but he won’t be a failure until he says that someone pushed him. —Elmer G. Letterman

 

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

 

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

 

Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble. —Shah Rukh Khan

 

If at first you don’t succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried. —Steven Wright

 

When we give ourselves permission to fail, we, at the same time, give ourselves permission to excel. —Eloise Ristad

 

We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse. —Rudyard Kipling

 

The master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried. —Stephen McCranie

 

When we give ourselves permission to fail, we, at the same time, give ourselves permission to excel. —Eloise Ristad

 

There are defeats more triumphant than victories. —Michel de Montaigne

 

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again. —Richard Branson

 

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

 

It’s failure that gives you the proper perspective on success. —Ellen DeGeneres

 

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of a greater or equal benefit. —Napoleon Hill

 

Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed. —Arnold Schwarzenegger

 

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try. —Beverly Sills

 

A man may fail many times but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else. —John Burroughs

 

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

 

The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn’t like to do. —Thomas Edison

 

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The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure. —John C. Maxwell

 

Failure is the foundation of success, and the means by which it is achieved. —Lao Tzu

 

If you don’t try at anything, you can’t fail… it takes back bone to lead the life you want. —Richard Yates

 

If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original. —Ken Robinson

 

The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same. —Colin R. Davis

 

I was never afraid of failure; for I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest. —John Keats

 

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time we fail. —Confucius

 

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

Short Failure Sayings

 

The only failure is not to try. —George Clooney

 

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

 

Mistakes are the portals of discovery. —James Joyce

 

Failure is impossible. —Susan B. Anthony

 

Giving up is the only sure way to fail. —Gena Showalter

 

Remember that failure is an event, not a person. —Zig Ziglar

 

Try again. Fail again. Fail better. —Samuel Beckett

 

Success builds character, failure reveals it. —Dave Checkett

 

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Without failure there is no achievement. —John C. Maxwell

 

Failing to prepare is preparing to fail. —John Wooden

 

Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever. —Lance Armstrong

 

Aging is mostly the failure to repair. —Gregory Benford

 

If you fell down yesterday, stand up today. —H.G. Wells

 

You make mistakes, mistakes don’t make you. —Maxwell Maltz

 

Everything you want is on the other side of fear. —Jack Canfield

 

Mistakes are the portals of discovery. —James Joyce

 

If you fell down yesterday, stand up today. —H.G. Wells

 

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat. —F. Scott Fitzgerald

 

We are all failures – at least the best of us are. —J.M. Barrie

 

If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style. —Quentin Crisp

 

There is no failure. Only feedback. —Robert Allen

 

Every failure is a step to success. —William Whewell

 

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

 

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

 

Failure is a part of success. —Hank Aaron

 

Failures are the stairs we climb to reach success. —Roy T. Bennett

 

No man is a failure who is enjoying life. —William Feather

 

Failure is a word unknown to me. —Muhammad Ali Jinnah

 

You have to be able to accept failure to get better. —Lebron James

 

Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will. —Suzy Kassem

 

If you learn from defeat, you haven’t really lost. —Zig Ziglar

 

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

 

You always pass failure on your way to success. —Mickey Rooney

Top 10 Failure Sayings

 

  1. Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. —Truman Capote
  2. Every failure is a step to success. —William Whewell
  3. Without failure there is no achievement. —John C. Maxwell
  4. Giving up is the only sure way to fail. —Gena Showalter
  5. Failure is success if we learn from it. —Malcolm Forbes
  6. The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same. —Colin R. Davis
  7. You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try. —Beverly Sills
  8. Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble. —Shah Rukh Khan
  9. There are no failures – just experiences and your reactions to them. —Tom Krause
  10. Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again. —Richard Branson

 

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