Failure is the key to success. If we want to succeed in our life first we have to face our failures. Failures are very important in our life to succeed. We should learn from our failures.

Shayan e Shayari is providing you with these 101 failure quotes that will motivate you to succeed in your life. Take a look at the following failure quotes and know how to change our failures into success.



1. "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."

— Thomas A. Edison

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

— John Wooden

3. "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 have failed by default." 

— J.K. Rowling

4. "There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.

— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

5. "Never let success get to your head; never let failure get to your heart."

— Anonymous

6. "Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."

— Thomas Edison

7. "Failure is a part of the process. You just learn to pick yourself back up."

— Michelle Obama

8. "I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying."

— Michael Jordan

9. "Success is most often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable."

— Coco Chanel

10. "When you take risks, you learn that there will be times when you succeed, and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important."

— Ellen DeGeneres

11. "I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time."

— Herbert Bayard Swope

 12. "Just because you fail once, doesn’t mean you’re gonna fail at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always, always, always believe in yourself, because if you don’t, then who will, sweetie?"

— Marilyn Monroe

13. "Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm."

— Winston Churchill

14. "A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying."

— B. F. Skinner

15. "Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."

— Robert F. Kennedy

16. "Failure is another stepping stone to greatness."

— Oprah Winfrey

17. "Do not fear failure but rather fear not trying."

— Roy T. Bennett

18. "You always pass failure on your way to success."

— Mickey Rooney

19. "A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it."

— Alexandre Dumas

20. "Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but rising every time we fail."

— Confucius



21. "Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."

— Theodore Roosevelt

 22. "If you don’t try at anything, you can’t fail… it takes backbone to lead the life you want."

— Richard Yates

 23. "Children have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed of failing, but to get up and try again. Most of us adults are so afraid, so cautious, so 'safe,' and therefore so shrinking and rigid and afraid that it is why so many humans fail. Most middle-aged adults have resigned themselves to failure."

— Malcolm

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

— Truman Capote

25. "Failure is not falling down but refusing to get up."

— Chinese proverb

26. "Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit."

— Napoleon Hill

27. "It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure."

— Bill Gates

28. "Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent."

— Calvin Coolidge

29. "Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is a 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

30. "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

31. "Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm."

— Winston S. Churchill

 32. "Successful people don’t fear failure but understand that it’s necessary to learn and grow from."

— Robert Kiyosaki

33. "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

34. "Don’t worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try.”"

— Jack Canfield

35. "Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something."

— Morihei Ueshiba

36. "It's failure that gives you the proper perspective on success."

— Ellen DeGeneres

37. "My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them."

— Jack Kerouac

38. "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

39. "Everything you want is on the other side of fear."

— Jack Canfield

40. "Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement."

— C.S. Lewis



41.  "You have to be able to accept failure to get better."

— LeBron James

42. "Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it."

— Mia Hamm

43. "The guns and the bombs, the rockets, and the warships, are all symbols of human failure. Lyndon B. Johnson

44. "Don't fear failure — not failure, but low aim is the crime. In great attempts, it is glorious even to fail."

— Bruce Lee

45. "My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure."

— Abraham Lincoln

46. "There is no failure except in no longer trying."

— Chris Bradford

47. "It's only when you risk failure that you discover things. When you play it safe, you're not expressing the utmost of your human experience." 

— Lupita Nyong'o

48. "A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all."

— Friedrich Nietzsche

49. "Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough."

— Og Mandion

50. "An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he’s in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots."

— Charles F. Kettering

51. "Winners are not afraid of losing. But losers are. Failure is a part of the process of success. People who avoid failure also avoid success."

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

52. "Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success."

— C. S. Lewis

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

— J.M. Barrie

54. "There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period." 

— Brene Brown

55. "All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." 

— Samuel Beckett, Worstward Ho

56. "Fear regrets more than failure."

— Taryn Rose

57. "Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure."

— George Eliot

58. "The master has failed more times than the beginner has tried."

— Stephen McCranie

59. "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."

— J.K. Rowling

60. "Ambition is the last refuge of the failure."

— Oscar Wilde



61. "There are no failures–just experiences and your reactions to them."

— Tom Krause

62. "Life is full of screwups. You're supposed to fail sometimes. It's a required part of the human existance."

— Sarah Dessen

63. "Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again."

— Nelson Mandela

64. "A man may fall many times, but he won’t be a failure until he says that someone pushed him."

— Elmer G. Letterman

65. "A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else."

— John Burroughs

66. "With a hint of good judgment, to fear nothing, not failure or suffering or even death, indicates that you value life the most. You live to the extreme; you push limits; you spend your time building legacies. Those do not die."

— Criss Jami

67. "My past is everything I failed to be."

— Fernando Pessoa

68. "The secret of life is to fall seven times and to get up eight times."

— Paulo Coelho

69. "Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again."

— Richard Branson

70. "Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important."

— Steve Jobs

71. "The one who falls and gets up is stronger than the one who never tried. Do not fear failure but rather fear not trying."

— Roy T. Bennett

72. "I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong."

— Benjamin Franklin

73. "Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure."

— Napoleon Hill

74. "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts."

— Winston Churchill

75. "Success is not built on success. It's built on failure. It's built on frustration. Sometimes it's built on catastrophe."

— Sumner Redstone

76. "Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out."

— Benjamin Franklin

77. "The only thing that separates success from failure is one last attempt. Try one more time and you will get lucky."

— Apoorve Dubey

78. "The biggest risk is not taking any risk. In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks."

— Mark Zuckerberg

79. "Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive."

— Andy Grove

80. "One who fears failure limits his activities."

— Henry Ford



81. "Failure is a detour; not a dead-end street."

— Zig Ziglar

82. "The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one."

— Elbert Hubbard

83. "There is no such thing as failure. There are only results."

— Tony Robbins

84. "Let the fear of failure be the background noise of your success."

— Giovanni Dienstmann

85. "In the real world, very smart people fail, and mediocre people rise. Part of what makes people fail or succeed are skills that have nothing to do with IQ. Also, the idea that intelligence can be gauged by an IQ test is erroneous."

— Camille Paglia

86. "I think you have to try and fail because failure gets you closer to what you’re good at."

— Louis C.K.

87. "You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give."

— E. O. Wilson

88. "Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping stone to greatness."

— Oprah Winfrey

89. "Part of being a man is learning to take responsibility for your successes and for your failures. You can’t go blaming others or being jealous. Seeing somebody else’s success as your failure is a cancerous way to live."

— Kevin Bacon

90. "Every failure is a step to success."

— William Whewell

91. "The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure." 

— John C. Maxwell

92. "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. That is why I succeed."

— Michael Jordan

93. "Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself."

— Charlie Chaplin

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

— Paramahansa Yogananda

95. "Fear kills more dreams than failure ever will."

— Suzy Kassem

96. "All people fail at certain instances in their lives, the only thing that makes them different is how they manage to stand up or how they choose to fail again."

— Unknown

97. "The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows."

— Frederic William Farrar

98. "Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments. 

— Henry Ward Beecher

99. "Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out." 

— Benjamin Franklin

100. "Try again. Fail again. Fail better."

— Samuel Beckett

101. "Failure is good as long as it doesn’t become a habit."

— Michael Eisner



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