Failure QuotesHere is a collection of failure quotes to inspire us to rise from our failures and work towards success. You can use them in cards, letters and emails to encourage someone. Failures are part of learning process in life. We can develop success from failure. Although it feels disappointing when we fail, but we can gain experience and grow wiser from it. Successful people failed and rose from failures to achieve greater success. Failing taught them to avoid making same mistakes and show them what can work. We can grow from our failures and use them as stepping stones for success. “By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail." - Benjamin Franklin
"Failure doesn't mean you are a failure...it just means you haven't succeeded yet.” - Robert Schuller
“We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.” - Samuel Smiles
"There is no failure. Only feedback.” - Robert Allen
"The man who has done his level best, and who is conscious that he has done his best, is a success, even though the world may write him down as a failure." - BC Forbes
"Focus on your potential instead of your limitations." - Alan Loy McGinnis
"Everyting negative - pressure, challenges - is all an opportunity for me to rise." - Kobe Bryant
"I think I learn a lot from losses and they make me a lot tougher.” - Maria Sharapova
"Failure is the opportunity to begin again, more intelligently.” - Henry Ford
"All my successes have been built on my failures.” - Benjamin Disraeli
"People fall forward to success.” - Mary Kay Ash
"Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.” - Dale Carnegie
“Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.” - Marilyn Vos Savant
“You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.” - Edwin Louis Cole
“Failure is an event, not a person. Yesterday ended last night.” - Zig Ziglar
“Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end.” - Denis Waitley
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” - Winston Churchchill
"It is not our mistakes that define who we are; it is how we recover from those mistakes.” - Bo Bennett
“Many people fail in life, not for lack of ability or brains or even courage but simply because they have never organized their energies around a goal." - Elbert Hubbard
“Complacency breeds failure." - Andrew Grove
"You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one." - 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
“An excuse becomes an obstacle in your journey to success when it is made in place of your best effort or when it is used as the object of the blame." - Bo Bennett
“Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses." - George Washington Carver
“Put all your excuses aside and remember this: YOU are capable.” - Zig Ziglar
“Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.” - Oscar Wilde
“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.” - Colin Powell
"The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.” - Napoleon Hill
"In achieving your goals, you may run into roadblocks. Don't let that stop you, go around, over, or under. If you are committed to your goal you will find a way." - Catherine Pulsifier
“Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.” - Og Mandino
“When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.” - Napoleon Hill
“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” - Nelson Mandela
“Don't give up, don't ever give up.” - Jim Valvano
“Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game, one foot from a winning touch down.” - Ross Perot
“I have to say I've made many mistakes, and been humbled many, many times. But you know what? It's never too late to learn.” - Kathy Ireland
“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.” - George Bernard Shaw
“Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.” - Walt Disney
“Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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