Failure Quotes

"Don’t worry about failure: You only have to be right once."

- Drew Houston

"The key to success is failure."

- Michael Jordan

"Remember that failure is an event, not a person."

- Zig Ziglar

"You can make no mistakes and still lose. That is not failure, that is life."

- Nepeta33

"All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible."

- William Faulkner

"Failure is delay, but not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead-end street."

- William Arthur Ward

"I couldn't save her. I'm never going to be able to forgive myself for that."

- Spider-Man: No Way Home

"The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success."

- Paramahansa Yogananda

"Failure isn’t the end of the road. It’s a big red flag saying to you, ‘Wrong way. Turn around.’"

- Oprah Winfrey

"Failure doesn't exist. You fail, you learn from it and try it again - Kobe Bryant."

- Kobe Bryant

"I’ve failed over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed."

- Michael Jordan

"If You're afraid to fail, then you're probably going to fail"

- Kobe Bryant

"Not Everything Is A Lesson, Ryan. Sometimes You Just Fail."

- Dwight

"Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead-end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing."

- Denis Waitley

"Failure is so important. We speak about success all the time. It is the ability to resist failure or use failure that often leads to greater success. I’ve met people who don’t want to try for fear of failing."

- K. Rowling

"Failure isn’t fatal, but failure to change might be."

- John Wooden

"You build on failure. You use it as a steppingstone. Close the door on the past. You don’t try to forget the mistakes, but you don’t dwell on it. You don’t let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space."

- Johnny Cash

"We are all failures–at least the best of us are."

- M. Barrie

""Failure is the tuition you pay for success.""

- Walter Brunell

""It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all―in which case, you fail by default.""

- J.K. Rowling

""Failure isn’t the end of the road. It’s a big red flag saying to you, ‘Wrong way. Turn around.’""

- Oprah Winfrey

""Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.""

- Truman Capote

"We need to accept that we won’t always make the right decisions, that we’ll screw up royally sometimes– understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success."

- Arianna Huffington

""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

"Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail."

- Bruce Lee

"It is impossible to live without failing at something unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default"

- J.K.Rowling

"Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end."

- Denis Waitley

"I can’t give you a surefire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time."

- Herbert Bayard Swope

"We're born with success. It is only others who point out our failures, and what they attribute to us as failure."

- Whoopi Goldberg

"My grandmother once told me, 'Don't let failure go to your heart and don't let success go to your head.'"

- Will Smith