Failure Quotes

“DBT's catchphrase of developing a life worth living means you're not just surviving; rather, you have good reasons for living. I'm also getting better at keeping another dialectic in mind: On the one hand, the disorder decimates all relationships and social functions, so you're basically wandering in the wasteland of your own failure, and yet you have to keep walking through it, gathering the small bits of life that can eventually go into creating a life worth living. To be in the desolate badlands while envisioning the lush tropics without being totally triggered again isn't easy, especially when life seems so effortless for everyone else.”
― Kiera Van Gelder, The Buddha and the Borderline

“In our modern world, we look unkindly on mistakes and imperfection. But this is far from the samurai ideal. Mistakes are part of the learning process and if you haven't made them then you are, indeed, dangerous because it means you have never learned anything. Mistakes, to a samurai, are the proof of your learning.”
― Alexei Maxim Russell, Instruction Manual for the 21st Century Samurai

“Trying again is okay. Trying again and again and again is okay. It's sort of an infinite thing because the alternative is failure, and that's not okay.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year

“Never let failure discourage you. Every time you get to the base of a mountain (literal or metaphorical), you're presented with a new opportunity to challenge yourself, to push your limits beyond what you thought possible, to learn from climbers on the trail ahead of you, and to take in some amazing views. Your performance on the mountain you climbed last week or last month or last year doesn't matter - because it's all about what you are doing right now.”
― Alison Levine, On the Edge: The Art of High-Impact Leadership

“No matter what you are dealing with in life, be it resentment or regret, bitterness or sadness, anger or apathy, hatred or hesitation, depression or disempowerment, disappointment or other destructive anxieties, painful envy or emotional turmoil, fear of isolation or thoughts of failure, keep in mind that if you are positive, positivity will find you and embrace you!”
― Widad Akrawi

“You're a dead man". I hear his voice again, and I see the words on my face when I get back in the cab and look in the rearview mirror.
It makes me think of my life, my nonexistent accomplishments and my overall abilities in incompetence.
"A dead man", I think. He's not far wrong.”
― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger

“To the bankrupt poet, to the jilted lover, to anyone who yearns to elude the doubt within and the din without, the tidal strait between Manhattan Island and her favorite suburb offers the specious illusion of easy death. Melville prepared for the plunge from the breakwater on the South Street promenade, Whitman at the railing of the outbound ferry, both men redeemed by some Darwinian impulse, maybe some epic vision, which enabled them to change leaden water into lyric wine. Hart Crane rejected the limpid estuary for the brackish swirl of the Caribbean Sea. In each generation, from Washington Irving’s to Truman Capote’s, countless young men of promise and talent have examined the rippling foam between the nation’s literary furnace and her literary playground, questioning whether the reams of manuscript in their Brooklyn lofts will earn them garlands in Manhattan’s salons and ballrooms, wavering between the workroom and the water. And the city had done everything in its power to assist these men, to ease their affliction and to steer them toward the most judicious of decisions. It has built them a bridge.”
― Jacob M. Appel, The Biology of Luck

“Nimewapa watoto wangu kila kitu katika maisha isipokuwa umaskini. Lakini bado wamenishinda.”
― Enock Maregesi

“We can become fearless as we let go off our grasp on the fear of failure, because failure too is a perception rather than a reality.”
― Gyalwa Dokhampa, The Restful Mind

“...no matter how much success you may experience in life, your eventual story - no offence intended - will be one of failure. Your bodily organs will fail, and you'll die.”
― Oliver Burkeman, The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking

“Failure in and of itself is not a bad thing. But failing to learn from it is inexcusable.”
― Alison Levine, On the Edge: The Art of High-Impact Leadership

“When a million little things go right, that’s called success. Failure functions as the great leveler. When things don’t go as planned, it’s humbling. It’s important to make mistakes along the way, or we would be impossible to live with.”
― Judy Frankel

“Wape watoto wako urithi wa kutosha ili waweze kufanya kitu, lakini si urithi wa kutosha ili wasiweze kufanya kitu. Wape watoto uhuru wanaostahili kupata, uhuru wa mahesabu, lakini si uhuru wa kila kitu.”
― Enock Maregesi

“Ukiwapa watoto wako uhuru wa shaghalabaghala au uhuru wa kila kitu watajisahau! Wape uhuru wa mahesabu.”
― Enock Maregesi

“We all make mistakes. It is important to learn from them and just as important to know when to move on.”
― Gina Varamo

“Success needs no authorization, yet failure requires permission.”
― T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence

“If you were to believe that you would've never have tried anything new; when you don't you will only master failure.”
― Peter Abbasova, Silent Sinners

“Dear George, remember no man is a failure who has friends.”
― It's a Wonderful Life

“I feel like a failure." The expression comes so naturally that we forget it is a figure of speech: the language of business applied to the soul.”
― Scott A. Sandage, Born Losers: A History of Failure in America

“Success doesn’t happen overnight and neither does failure. Both are byproducts of personal choices and conscious decisions we make on a daily basis. The truth is…when it comes to our relationships, our occupations and spiritual lives, we alone determine whether we fail or succeed by what we repeatedly do.”
― Jason Versey, A Walk with Prudence

“Failure leads to a decrease in motivation only when it is accepted as failure. Failure leads students to improve when they see it is a stepping stone on the road to success.”
― Sang H. Kim, Teaching Martial Arts

“Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.”
― Anonymous

“Failure is not the opposite of success, inaction is.”
― Rob Liano

“On hindsight every failure is the best medicine, bitter but effective”
― Aporva Kala, Life... Love... Kumbh...

“What's knocking on your door...opportunities to succeed or opportunities to fail? Times may get tough, life may not be fair, but never allow fleeting disappointments to corrupt your attitude and your plans for the future. Self-pity is a destructive force that will eat away at every opportunity for success. If your determination to succeed is where it needs to be...failure never makes it to your doorstep. ~Jason Versey”
― Jason Versey, A Walk with Prudence

“The Road to success is a pattern that mirrors your behavior for the next halfway”
― Jinzo Sloatch

“Sometimes coping with the difficulties success brings is much more difficult than coping with the difficulties failure brings!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Failures or successes are not as important as the willingness to risk.”
― Darryl Webb

“When failing spectacularly the trick is to employ an inverted Schadenfreude. Take ownership of your misfortune.”
― Dean Cavanagh

“I’ve written for the waste basket so often that we’ve become friends. He writes too, but it’s mostly garbage.”
― Ryan Lilly