150 Fail Quotes

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Famous Fail Quotes

Failure is success in progress — Albert Einstein

One fails forward toward success. — Charles Kettering

Try and fail,but don't fail to try. — John Quincy Adams

Failure is not an option! — Gene Kranz

Failure means you've now learned another valuable lesson that pushes you one step closer to success. — Steve Harvey

Failure is inevitable. Success is elusive. — Steven Spielberg

Failure changes for the better, success for the worse. — Seneca The Elder

Failure is sucess if we learn from it. — Mario Andretti

Failure comes when we don't get back up and try again. — Jack White

Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better. — Samuel Beckett

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

Failure is success if we learn from it. - Malcolm Stevenson Forbes

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

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

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker — John C. Maxwell

Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough. — Elon Musk

Short Fail Quotes

  • We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it. — Robert Baden-Powell
  • Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you. — Frank Lloyd Wright
  • Where words fail, music speaks. — Hans Christian Andersen
  • The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn't like to do. — Thomas A. Edison
  • Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. — Robert Kennedy
  • I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. — Thomas A. Edison
  • Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better. — Samuel Beckett
  • In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength. — Robert E. Lee
  • I can accept failure. Everyone fails at something. But I cannot accept not trying. — Michael Jordan
  • Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. — Unknown

Fail Image Quotes

Words will not fail when the matter is well considered. - Horace quote

Words will not fail when the matter is well considered. — Horace

One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. - Abraham Maslow quote

One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. — Abraham Maslow

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud. - Sophocles quote

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud. — Sophocles

I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed. - Michael Jordan quote

I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed. — Michael Jordan

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try. - Beverly Sills quote

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

Fail quote Failure are part of life. If you don't fail, you don't learn. If you don't learn you'll never change
Failure are part of life. If you don't fail, you don't learn. If you don't learn you'll never change.
Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led. - Warren G. Bennis quote

Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led. — Warren G. Bennis

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail Better. - Samuel Beckett quote

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail Better. — Samuel Beckett

It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails. - Romain Rolland quote

It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails. — Romain Rolland

Fail quote Remind yourself that you cannot fail at being yourself.
Remind yourself that you cannot fail at being yourself.
I have failed at times, but I have never stopped trying. - Rahul Dravid quote

I have failed at times, but I have never stopped trying. — Rahul Dravid

A great artist has to be ready to fail. - Marina Abramovic quote

A great artist has to be ready to fail. — Marina Abramovic

Fail quote Just because you took longer than others, doesn't mean you failed. Remember that.
Just because you took longer than others, doesn't mean you failed. Remember that.
The possible has been tried and failed. Now it's time to try the impossible. - Sun Ra quote

The possible has been tried and failed. Now it's time to try the impossible. — Sun Ra

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th. - Julie Andrews quote

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th. — Julie Andrews

If all else fails, there's always print or web zines. - Rudy Rucker quote

If all else fails, there's always print or web zines. — Rudy Rucker

Winners are not those who never fail, but those who never quit. - Edwin Louis Cole quote

Winners are not those who never fail, but those who never quit. — Edwin Louis Cole

There is no loneliness like that of a failed marriage. - Alexander Theroux quote

There is no loneliness like that of a failed marriage. — Alexander Theroux

Go after a dream that is destined to fail without divine intervention. - Mark Batterson quote

Go after a dream that is destined to fail without divine intervention. — Mark Batterson

An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one. - Charles Horton Cooley quote

An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one. — Charles Horton Cooley

I didn't fail 1000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1000 steps. - Thomas A. Edison quote

I didn't fail 1000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1000 steps. — Thomas A. Edison

If violence wasn't your last resort, you failed to resort to enough of it. - Howard Tayler quote

If violence wasn't your last resort, you failed to resort to enough of it. — Howard Tayler

Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make. - Corita Kent quote

Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make. — Corita Kent

Fail quote If plan A fails, remember there are 25 more letters.
If plan A fails, remember there are 25 more letters.

Love Failure Quotes

to love is to risk, not being loved in return. to hope is to risk pain. to try is to risk failure. but risk must be taken because the greatest hazard in my life is to risk nothing. — Bob Marley

Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure. Do not mistake a child for his symptom. — Erik Erikson

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it. — Maya Angelou

Fail quote Don't fear the failure... in great attempts it is glorious even to fail.
Don't fear the failure... in great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

No other success can compensate for failure in the home. The poorest shack in which love prevails over a united family is of greater value to God and future humanity that any other riches. In such a home God can work miracles and will work miracles. — Sayings

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate. — George Burns

... a bad attitude, that the love of money is the root of all evil and the rich are evil and greedy and all that stuff. It’s basically socialism and communism. — Robert Kiyosaki

Fail quote Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.
Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.

Loving yourself means being your own best friend, standing by yourself at all times, including times of failure; being there for yourself no matter what. — Anita Moorjani

If our identity is in our work, rather than Christ, success will go to our heads, and failure will go to our hearts. — Timothy Keller

My story of success and failure is not just about music and being famous. It's about living and loving and trying to find purpose in this crazy world. — Wynonna Judd

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. - Dale Carnegie

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. — Dale Carnegie

Try And Fail Quotes

Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do. — Pope John XXIII

You never fail until you stop trying. — Albert Einstein

She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love. Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it. — William Faulkner

Fail quote Act as if it were impossible to fail.
Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Don't try to fix the students, fix ourselves first. The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior. When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed. — Marva Collins

We try to remember that medicine is for the patient. We try never to forget that medicine is for the people. It is not for the profits. The profits follow, and if we have remembered that, they have never failed to appear. The better we have remembered it, the larger they have been. — George W. Merck

We don't realise that we are actually perfect just the way we are. We are born perfect, but spend a lifetime trying to be something we are not, and then feel inadequate for failing. Your only purpose is to BE YOURSELF, otherwise you will deprive the universe of who you came here to be. — Anita Moorjani

Fail quote The MASTER has failed more times than beginner has even TRIED.
The MASTER has failed more times than beginner has even TRIED.

There are three ways of trying to win the young. There is persuasion, there is compulsion, and there is attraction. You can preach at them: that is a hook without a worm. You can say, You must volunteer, and that is of the devil. You can tell them, You are needed. That appeal hardly ever fails. — Kurt Hahn

If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done? — George Carlin

Get out of the boat. Face your fears. Fail. Learn. Adjust. Try again. And watch God do more than you can imagine. — Craig Groeschel

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him. — Winston Churchill

Fail To Succeed Quotes

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. — Michael Jordan

If you're afraid to fail, you'll never succeed. - Dan Gable

If you're afraid to fail, you'll never succeed. — Dan Gable

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

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. - Herman Melville

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. — Herman Melville

Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. To these I commit my day. If I succeed, I will give thanks. If I fail, I will seek his grace. And then, when this day is done, I will place my head on my pillow and rest. — Max Lucado

Don't settle for average. Bring your best to the moment. Then, whether it fails or succeeds, at least you know you gave all you had. We need to live the best that's in us. — Angela Bassett

Fail quote Decide what you want, and then act as if it were impossible to fail.
Decide what you want, and then act as if it were impossible to fail.

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed. — Robert H. Schuller

They'll tell you failure is not an option. That is ridiculous, failure is always an option. Failure is the most readily available option at all times. But it's a choice. You can choose to fail or you can choose to succeed. — Chael Sonnen

To learn to succeed, you must first learn to fail. - Michael Jordan

To learn to succeed, you must first learn to fail. — Michael Jordan

Our work is to make ourselves visible in the world. This is the soul's individual journey, and the soul would much rather fail at its own life than succeed at someone else's. — David Whyte

When You Fail Quotes

The hardest thing is to forgive, but God does, even if you murdered or robbed, ya it's wrong, but God loves, take one step toward him he'll take two toward you, even when all else fails, God'll support you — Nas

Celebrate your success and find humor in your failures. Don't take yourself so seriously. Loosen up and everyone around you will loosen up. Have fun and always show enthusiasm. When all else fails, put on a costume and sing a silly song. — Sam Walton

When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger. — Epictetus

Fail quote You only fail when you stop trying.
You only fail when you stop trying.

Failure is an option. It's what you do with the failure that makes you who you are. Our failures mold us. I have failed at several things in my life. What sets some of us apart, is that when we fail, we can't sleep at night. It haunts us until we have our time at redemption. — David Goggins

Don’t worry about where to start. Remember, it’s the decisions you make, it’s the decision to get started it’s the decision to face possible failure, it’s the decision to get up once you’ve failed and it’s the decision of what to learn when you fail. — Tom Bilyeu

Everyone has the ability to accomplish unique feats, everyone. You choose this. Become someone great in one other life. Forget about failing to many. Who cares? Doesn't matter when you start or finish, just start, no deviations, no excuses. — Tom Platz

Fail quote Everyone must fail once or twice, before they learn how to get back up.
Everyone must fail once or twice, before they learn how to get back up.

When a child makes a mistake or fails to accomplish a certain goal, we must avoid any word or action which indicates that we consider him a failure. 'Too bad that didn't work.' 'I'm sorry it didn't work out for you.' We need to separate the deed from the doer. — Rudolf Dreikurs

Being brave means knowing that when you fail, you don't fail forever. - Lana Del Rey

Being brave means knowing that when you fail, you don't fail forever. — Lana Del Rey

When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important. — Ellen DeGeneres

When you are failing, you are forced to be creative, to dig deep and think, night and day. — Bill Gates

Afraid To Fail Quotes

Maybe you will be afraid and maybe you will fail, but the courage to take risks in any part of your life is, I feel, a very worthwhile way to live. — Emile Hirsch

I'm not afraid to fail...I'm scared to death of dying and having the Lord say to me, 'Angelica, this is what you might have done had you trusted more. — Mother Angelica

Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness. — Oprah Winfrey

Don't be afraid to fail. Be afraid not to try. — Michael Jordan

Never be afraid to fail. Failure is only a stepping stone to improvement. Never be overconfident because that will block your improvement. — Tatchakorn Yeerum

You can not achieve success without the risk of failure. If you are not afraid to fail, than you have a chance, but you are never going to get there unless you risk it. — Paul Heyman

Don't be afraid to fail. Experience is just mistakes you don't make anymore. - Joe Garagiola

Don't be afraid to fail. Experience is just mistakes you don't make anymore. — Joe Garagiola

You can't be afraid to fail. It's the only way you succeed - you're not gonna succeed all the time, and I know that. — LeBron James

My dad encouraged us to fail. Growing up, he would ask us what we failed at that week. If we didn't have something, he would be disappointed. It changed my mindset at an early age that failure is not the outcome, failure is not trying. Don't be afraid to fail. — Sara Blakely

We weren’t afraid to make changes. We weren’t afraid to fail. We tried to do things very cheaply, very quickly. And if it wasn’t working, we would kill it quickly. It meant making quick decisions, fixing things that were broken and scaling things that worked. — Jared Kushner

Preparing To Fail Quotes

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail. — Benjamin Franklin

In order to succeed greatly, you have to be prepared to fail greatly. If you can't do both of them, you've got a problem. — Mike Tyson

We are on the threshold of total war. If the Israeli's march into Gaza they will fail to root out the thousands of Hamas fighters there. The arsenal of rockets and missiles in the region is enormous. The rest of the region is prepared to go to war. It's not just Iran. — Douglas Macgregor

Many times people think if God has called you to something, he's promising you success. He might be calling you to fail to prepare you for something else through the failure. — Timothy Keller

Having the courage to make decisions and take action. Never be afraid to fail. You have nothing to fear if you have prepared to the best of your ability. — John Wooden

To be ready to fail is to be prepared for success. — Jose Bergamin

Failure to prepare is preparing to fail. — John Wooden

So let me tell you, as you prepare to go off into the world, remember six rules: Trust yourself, Break some rules, Don't be afraid to fail, Ignore the naysayers, Work like hell, and Give something back. — Arnold Schwarzenegger

People sometimes fail to live because they are always preparing to live. — Alan Watts

Fail to prepare, prepare to fail. — Roy Keane

Promise And Fail Quotes

But why should we not place implicit confidence in God and rely upon His word of promise? Is anything too hard for the Lord? Has His word of promise ever failed? Then let us not entertain any unbelieving suspicions of His future care of us. Heaven and earth shall pass away, but not so His promises. — Arthur W. Pink

I was once young and now I am old, but not once have I been witness to God's failure to supply my need when first I had given for the furtherance of His work. He has never failed in His promise, so I cannot fail in my service to Him. — William Carey

Wines are like people. Some are perfect but boring, some are precocious but fail to live up to their promise, and some may be flawed, but the way they may develop is endlessly fascinating. — Michael Broadbent

I do think it's good to remember that childish things are made for children, and that, however pleasantly lurid the promise of a return to the clarity of childhood may be, an infatuation with the childish reveals only that one has failed to grow past it. — Lauren Faust

The U.N. can be very frustrating and at times impotent, but it can also be a valuable forum for discussion and resolution of world problems. We should not walk away from it just because it's failed to live up to its promise. — Robert Foster Bennett

Flip-flopping is kind of an easy thing to identify. During a recent convention, we heard an irate Senator make an angry speech declaring that it is not what you say but, rather, what you do that counts. You flip-flop when you make promises and fail to fulfill them. — Frank Lautenberg

But as the arms-control scholar Thomas Schelling once noted, two things are very expensive in international life: promises when they succeed and threats when they fail. — Fareed Zakaria

Is there any reason why you should not have faith in God? Has God ever broken one of His promises? I defy any infidel or unbeliever to place a finger on a single promise of God ever made and failed to fulfill. — Dwight L. Moody

We know that God is in control and we all have ups and downs and fears and uncertainty sometimes. Sometimes even on an hourly basis we need to keep praying and keep our peace in God and remind ourselves on the promises of God that never fails. — Nick Vujicic

The Promised Land was a tangible representation of God's ultimate desire for His people, but they failed to comprehend His gift for at least three reasons: It was unconditionally promised, it was outrageously generous, and it was absolutely free. None of those make sense in the world as we know it. — Charles R. Swindoll

Don't Be Afraid To Fail Quotes

People are afraid to think, or they don't know how. They fail to realize that, while emotions can't be suppressed, the mind can be strengthened. All over the world people are seeking peace of mind, but there can be no peace of mind without strength of mind. — Eric Gutkind

Don't be afraid to fail, encourage your talent, and use your heart. And never be unprepared — Joe Torre

I've had to learn through experiences not to be afraid to fail. You don't know what the future holds for you. You can hope your dreams come true, but you have to be fearless. I don't want to look back and think, What if? — Nastia Liukin

Failure is not the outcome - failure is not trying. Don't be afraid to fail. — Sara Blakely

That's the whole key to anything: Don't be afraid to fail. And is not afraid to fail. — Bernie Mac

Don't be afraid to fail big, to dream big. — Denzel Washington

You shouldn't be afraid of failure - when something fails, you think, 'What did I learn from that experience? I can do better next time.' Then kill that project and move on to the next. Don't get disappointed. — Niklas Zennstrom

You keep pushing because you believe in yourself and in your vision and you know that it is the right thing to do, and success will come. So don't be afraid to fail! — Arnold Schwarzenegger

Don't be afraid to fail. Anything that I've ever attempted I was always willing to fail. You can't always win, but don't be afraid of making decisions. — Arnold Schwarzenegger

In order to succeed, you can't be afraid to fail. Just do it and don't let anybody tell you you can't. — Faith Hill

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More Fail Quotes

It's very hard to fail completely, if you aim high enough. - Larry Page quote

It's very hard to fail completely, if you aim high enough. — Larry Page

And don't forget: time is meant to be wasted, love fails and death is useless. - Charles Bukowski quote

And don't forget: time is meant to be wasted, love fails and death is useless. — Charles Bukowski

Dream audaciously. Have the courage to fail forward. Act with urgency. - Phil Knight quote

Dream audaciously. Have the courage to fail forward. Act with urgency. — Phil Knight

When all else fails, take a vacation. - Betty Williams quote

When all else fails, take a vacation. — Betty Williams

You can't measure success if you have never failed. My father has taught me that if you really do want to reach your goals, you can't spend any time worrying about whether you're going to win or lose. Focus only on getting better. — Steffi Graf

My logisticians are a humorless lot ... they know if my campaign fails, they are the first ones I will slay. — Alexander The Great

Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave. — Mary Tyler Moore

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

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