97 Failure Quotes
A collection of failure quotes, sayings and expressions to encourage and inspire. Let these quotations help you look at failure differently.A failure is not the end, it can be a learning experience. It can be a way to look at things in a different light. You may also be encouraged by our collection of poems about failure.
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Fear of failure is what can keep people permanently
trapped in their personal comfort zone.
Ben Samson, Confidence Boosting Secrets
Poems of Encouragement -
And through God's great act of mercy, forgiving our failures and sin, can we pass through that door of salvation, through Christ we're allowed to come in.
Greta Zwaan, Preparing For Heaven
Christian Poems -
I will not think that I have failed or lived my life in vain, if to my credit I shall find one friend to to be my gain
Author Unknown
Friendship Poems -
"Yes, accept failure but do not treat it as an outcome."
Vinnie Fisher
Inspirational Poems -
Disappointment and failure aren’t identical, they often occur together, and both can hold us back from God’s best for our lives.
Billy Graham
Quotes On Disappointment -
Success is buried in the garden of failure.
Rick Wakeman
Garden Poems -
"If you don't get over your fear of failure, it can plague you in other areas
of your life."
David A. Hunter, Positive Thinking
Poems About Life -
Amateurs give up at the first sign of trouble and assume they’re failures. Professionals see failure as part of the path to growth and mastery.
Shane Parrish
Perseverance Quotes -
All my failures manifold; nothing gloomy shall be taken to the new year from the old.
Amos R. Wells, I Pack My Trunk
New Year Poems - So start to change your mind, that a failure can be kind,
If we allow ourselves to learn from it.
Julie Hebert, Life's Failures
Poems About Change -
Failure may seem to take away what might have been but look for the lessons, those unseen
Catherine Pulsifer, Look For The Lessons
Poems About Learning -
We ....jeered the silly dreamers and the dream they sought....for we took no stock in fancies-till the dream came true!
Berton Braley
Poems About Dreams -
If you’re 40 years old and you’ve never had a failure, you’ve been deprived.
Gloria Swanson
Funny 40th Birthday Poems -
And each life that fails of its true intent mars the perfect plan that its Master meant.
Susan Coolidge, A Single Stitch
The Weaver Poem -
Press on! surmount the rocky steeps, climb boldly o'er the torrent's arch: he fails alone who feebly creeps.
Park Benjamin, Press On
Poems About Perseverance -
Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
Henry Ford
Poems About New Beginnings -
When you try to be someone you're not - you will fail no matter how much you got
Catherine Pulsifer, Be Yourself
Poems About Being Yourself -
If you have failed, surrender not to fear - tomorrow has not come; today is here.
T. N. Hanson, Today Is Here
Good Morning Poems -
There is no doubt that experience in life is a great teacher whether those lessons be gleaned from success or failure.
Julie Hebert
Short Inspirational Quotes -
Men must be weak, indeed, who fail, when in this land so swings the morning faith, the burning joy, the lifting hope that sings!
Folger M. Kinsey, Toward The Light
Son Poems -
But this is my day. It offers all that God has to give, and I'm a laggard or a coward if I fail to make the most of it.
Author Unknown, Today Is The Day
A New Day Poem -
Believe that you can — and you will not fail, though great be the task begun.
Unknown, Believe
Poems For Teenagers -
Though some of us fail somewhat in harvests where we strive, we should be thankful for our hopes, and that we are alive.
Edward Sherwood Creamer, Thanksgiving Day
Thanksgiving Poems -
Pause not to mourn o'er the failures you made on yesterday
Clara McAlister Brooks, Life's Mystery
LIfe Is Good Poems -
Mistakes and blunders do not put us under long, simple guideposts to show us where we belong. They're not failures so gaunt, nor ropes to bind, but roadways to conquer and discoveries we find.
Catherine Pulsifer, Mistakes And Blunders
Poems About Education -
Failure, when viewed from a strategic point of view, can provide all the lessons one needs in order to avoid similar pitfalls in the future.
Byron Pulsifer
Try, Try Again -
Success is failure turned inside out - the silver tint of the clouds of doubt...
Edgar A. Guest
Don't Quit Poem -
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
Beverly Sills
Disappointment Poems -
There is no failure, save in giving up; no real fall so long as one still tries.
Unknown, Take This Honey
Poems About Strength -
Every fault made is another valuable lesson learned.
Kaylee Stepkoski
Life Lessons Quotes -
Do not let the former failure check the loving help today, rather let it urge you onward to a kinder, gentler way.
Samuel Henry Longley, The Better Way
Poems About Regret -
Dear Lord...Please grant that I shall never waste my pain....to fail without learning
Dick Innes, Never Waste Your Pain!
Prayer For Today -
When you've tried and failed and lost, when astray your plans are tossed...Try, try again!
David V. Bush, Try Again
Try Try Again Poem -
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill
Courage Poems -
Success is a failure turned inside out, building better roads for others to achieve their dreams.
Hernert O Nobleman, The Filigree of Success
Success Poem -
Thoughts shape one's fate, determining success or failure. Each thought stamps itself forever on one's personality- thoughts therefore,
make one's personality.
Dorothea Kopplin, Something to Live By
Positive Poems -
If you have failed, surrender not to fear - tomorrow has not come; today is here.
T. N. Hanson, Today Is Here
Good Mornng Poems -
The best of life's lessons occur when a personal or professional failure is utilized as a necessary
ingredient to propel renewed dedication towards success.
Robert Rivers
Train Of Life Poem -
I would rather fail to be rich or famous on the earth, rather dwell in poverty if my deeds will tell my worth.
Edgar A. Guest, A Choice
Life Choices Poems -
Build for yourself a strong box....hide there all thoughts of failures...then sit on the lid and laugh.
Unknown, Your Troubles
A Laugh Pays Best In The End -
Give me a faith shall never fail, one that shall always work by love
Unknown, Faith, Love, And Patience
Poems About Faith -
... perseverance can be learned. We can grow in our ability to withstand difficult times. We can learn to push forward in the face of failure.
Tim Hague, Perseverance
Difficult Times Quotes -
Be passionate about your life. Learn to live without the fear of failing. Take a chance, you just might surprise yourself.
Nishan Panwar
Take A Chance Quotes -
But it is better for them to try and fail than not to try at all, or to succeed through base methods and ignoble motives.
Marshall Field, For Opportunity
Opportunity Poems -
Some may feel sadness in their defeat. . . . it's not the end, no need to fret, failure is only a chance to reset.
Catherine Pulsifer, An Opportunity To Reload
Poems About Defeat -
Failures can sting, leaving us oh so blue. . . we must not be discouraged and give up the fight
Catherine Pulsifer, Tale The Lesson
Discouragement Quotes -
When you encounter failure, it does not sink you until you let it enter you and suppress you.
Israelmore Ayivor, Believe and Achieve
Letting Go Poem -
Some of the most successful people in the world experienced failure after failure before they finally rose to the top in whatever endeavor they chose..... There are opportunities all around us each and every day. But, do we seize the opportunities presented to us or, do we stay focused on our failures?
Byron Pulsifer
Opportunity Poem -
There are thousands to tell you it cannot be done, there are thousands to prophesy failure... Just start in to sing as you tackle the thing that "cannot be done," and you’ll do it.
Edgar A. Guest
It Couldn't Be Done -
When failure looms ahead of you and everything looks black- when courage flags and hope grows dim- you're tempted to turn back... That's where Endurance triumphs
Patience Strong, Endurance
Be Inspired -
It's important to celebrate your failures as much as your successes. If you celebrate your failures really well, and if you get to the motto and say, 'Wow, I failed, I tried, I was wrong, I learned something,' then you realize you have no fear, and when your fear goes away, you can move the world.
Sebastian Thrun
Celebrate Quotes -
It nerves us on to try again when failure makes us blue; the dimples of encouragement are good for me and you.
Rolf Thelan, It's Worth A Million Dollars
A Smile Is Worth -
Past failures never are the end but only the beginning of newfound strategies culled from the best practices of former defeats.
Byron Pulsifer
In An Open Place -
Once or twice though you should fail, try again; if you would at last prevail, try again.
Unknown, Try Again
Patience Poem -
Too many self-impose the cross of daily working for a boss, forgetting that in failing him it is their own stars that they dim.
Unknown, Who Is Your Boss?
Poems About Work -
No care is so trying, no failure so great, that you can't find a new chance to battle with fate.
David V. Bush
Opportunity -
If you give up and quit you will always wonder "what if". Take a deep breath and start again let learning and failure be a friend.
Catherine Pulsifer, What If
Don't You Quit -
Many people accept that the darkness of failure must be the continued state of affairs. To these type of people, there is no foresight of what can be if only they use these defeats as the fresh beginnings on new life, of new dreams, and of new accomplishments.
Byron Pulsifer
Bulbs -
Quitting is the only failure.
Brajesh Kumar Singh
Quotes About Quitting -
Know this: every successful person, they have had failures. It is through failures that lessons can be learned that will help you avoid the same fatal or flooded mistakes again and again.
Byron Pulsifer
Never Despair -
Nothing ever achieved came by dreaming; nothing accomplished wasn't realized without hard work, and nothing became reality without overcoming failure.
Byron Pulsifer
Oh! Tell Me Not -
Leavened with failures, with grief sanctified, sacred and sweet is the joy that must come from the furnace of life when you've poured off the scum.
Edgar A. Guest, The Crucible of Life
Poems About Joy -
Even if they failed they kept moving forward - they could see the success they were moving toward.
Catherine Pulsifer, Look Back
Keep Going Poems -
You were not made for failure but success; not born for sorrow but for happiness.
Wilhelmina Stitch, Hold Up Your Head
Be The Best You Can Be
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Now that you're aware of your weakness and failures, now that you see that you're without power, give God the reigns, for He is discerning, He is the fortress, a strong, mighty tower.
Greta Zwaan, Our 24-7 God
Trust In God -
In Life's earnest battle, they only prevail
who daily march onward, and never say fail.
Daniel C. Colesworthy
Never Say Fail -
"Failures are only failures if we look at them that way! It is all in your attitude towards them; do you
see them as a learning experience or a failure."
Catherine Pulsifer
Attitude Quotes -
If you’re not failing, you’re not trying hard enough.
Rubin, Gretchen The Happiness Project
Short Quotes -
When you strive, there's no disgrace, though you fail to win the race;
Bravely then, in such a case, try, try, try again.
Author Unknown, A Lesson We Should Heed
Lessons Learned In Life -
Never fail to love your neighbor. Never fail to do your part.
J. J. Thorne
Poems -
"People tend to lose focus after one failure, however the key is to
learn from your mistakes and avoid repeating them the next time."
Krista "KK" Weatherspoon, 50 Things To Know
Mistakes -
I'd rather fail greatly with courage undying then plod on sedately with never a thrill!
Berton Braley
The Joy Of Life -
"Since failure is just a process of discovering what works
and what doesn't work, we must readjust our strategies and plow ahead again."
Demond Jackson, The 101 Most Powerful Success Quotes for High Achievers
Work Quotes -
You will learn more about yourself from a failed project than you ever will from something you never finish so don’t be a procrastinator.
Paul Jefferson Woods, Three Six Six
Procrastination Quotes -
"Fear of failure is immobilizing and it causes us not to progress further in
life
and force us to miss some very good opportunities ahead."
Rajneesh Chaturvedi, Taming Mind
Life Quotes -
"Successful people plan for failure."
Alex Altman, Time Is Money
Positive Quotes -
We fear failure so much that we often decide to do nothing instead of risk failing. But if you don't take chances in life, you'll never live up to your full potential.
from the book, Crap
Risk Quotes -
"Setting
goals, taking one step at a time, continuous learning,
never giving up, learning to use failures as our best teaches for future
success, and always being in touch with what is important to us."
Byron Pulsifer, How To Succeed When You Already Have
Positive Thoughts -
The value of making the most of our experiences is that they teach us lessons about life - about failures, successes, and everything in between. In the midst of our challenges always remember
success often comes in disguise.
Dean Pennicott
Poems about Life Lessons -
"It's what you do with what you are, with what you have or don't have,
that figures largely in determining failure or success."
Norman Vincent Peale, The Tough-Minded Optimist
Optimistic Quotes -
"Views on failure: failing is an
opportunity to learn; a failure is one who doesn't try again;
failing does not mean the end. The most important aspect of being
unsuccessful or of failing is your attitude - how you see it, and then,
what you do about it."
Catherine Pulsifer
Opportunity Quotes -
"Children who have never know success must be taught how to succeed.
Children who have never known failure must be taught to accept failure."
Greg Henry Quinn
Children Quotes -
"None of us can avoid failure. We can avoid battering ourselves in the process."
Anne Wilson Schaef
Thoughtful Quotes -
"Finding the energy to give just a little more effort is often the
difference between failure and success."
Mark Black
Defeat Quotes -
"Successful people make 'mistakes' often, and use them as feedback
to show them what they need to know that they wouldn't have known
otherwise." Yvonne Oswald
Be An Example Quotes -
Resilience is very different than being numb. Resilience means you experience, you feel, you fail, you hurt. You fall. But, you keep going.
Yasmin Mogahed
Resilience Quotes -
"Your greatest hero or heroine grew through failure and disappointment.
Failure is the strength behind all personal
experience." Gillian Stokes, Personal Power
Experience Quotes -
If you give up and quit,
you will always wonder "what if" -
Take a deep breath and start again let learning and failure be a friend.
Catherine Pulsifer, What If
Don't You Quit - "Many people are afraid to take a risk, are afraid of failure. But in life if we don't take a risk we will never move beyond where we are today."
Julie Hebert, Enough Thinking
Motivational Poems -
I thank God for my failures. Maybe not at the time but after some reflection. I never feel like a failure just because something I tried has failed.
Dolly Parton
Thank You God Poems -
Learn from the mistake with knowledge you have gained don't let the mistake be a failure or a drain
Catherine Pulsifer, Thankful For The Mistakes
Poems About Mistakes -
...failure teaches what not to do in order to reach achievement using the lessons of the past.
Byron Pulsifer
Start Where You Stand -
"Never take failure personally, never take set backs in a social
setting as evidence that you are not worth talking to."
Peter W. Murphy, Always Know What To Say
Graduation Poems -
"If you can't focus, you can't finish. If you can't finish, you will fail."
Matt Bishop, The 8 Pillars of Career and Business Success
Sustainability Quotes -
Failed today? That's nothing, say just keep up the fight - you will see your failures flee
David V. Bush, The Way To Win
The Successful Man -
And many a failure turns about when he might have won had he stuck it out.
Unknown, Stick It Out
Easy Poems -
The men who have climbed to the uttermost peak are the men who have failed, but have scorned to be weak...
David V. Bush
My Regrets To The Man Who Gives Up
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