Failure Quotes

Failure. The very word sends shivers down our spine. How many times have we evaded trying out something new out of the sheer fear of failure? Yes, they say failure is the biggest hindrance to any kind of innovation. Even in our everyday life, whether it is failing in an exam or being part of a failed relationship, we find it hard to come to grips with reality. This is when failure quotes that inject you with positive thinking come into the picture. These are some inspirational quotes that make you realize that it is only if you dare to do something that everyone else shies away from, then you will ever succeed. And with risks, comes the risk of failure. Given below are some short inspirational quotes that will help lift your mood.

Failure Sayings and Quotes

"Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success." - Denis Waitley

"The only real failure in life is the failure to try." - Anonymous

"Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street." - Zig Ziglar

"Not doing more than the average is what keeps the average down." - William M. Winans

"Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something." - Frederick Smith

"You will face many defeats in your life, but never let yourself be defeated." - Maya Angelou

"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." - Thomas Edison

"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden

"I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure: which is: Try to please everybody." - Herbert B. Swope

Quotes on Fear of Failure

"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm." - Winston Churchill

"If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down." - Mary Pickford

"There is no failure except in no longer trying." - Elbert Hubbard

"Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid." - John Keats

"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

"Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy." - Robert Anthony

"You've got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing." - Arthur Ashe

Failure Quotes by Famous People

"I don't believe in failure. It's not failure if you enjoyed the process." - Oprah Winfrey

"I've missed more than 9,000 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

"The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure." - Sven-Goran Eriksson

"I haven't failed, I've found 10,000 ways that don't work." - Thomas Alva Edison

"Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. But it's not. It takes patience, it takes commitment, and it comes with plenty of failure along the way. The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won't. it's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere." - Barack Obama

"My reputation grows with every failure." - George Bernard Shaw

"Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again." - Vincent van Gogh

So, these were some failure quotes. To avoid failure, you need to plan every step of the way for which you need to first go in for goal setting, and in this, some goal setting quotes may come in handy. Finally I'll leave you with a small exercise. Take your pick from the following:

☐ If at first you don't succeed, try again.
☐ If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you.
☐ If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.
☐ If at first you don't succeed, you are not Chuck Norris.
☐ If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

All of these quotes aren't really failure quotes (you obviously must have realized that) but they are an attempt to make you see the lighter side of failure because, as we all know, failure is the stepping stone to success. So it's up to you to decide how to look at the situation, because in the end, tough times never last but tough people do!