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Failure Quotes - Success and failure are two facets of the same coin. But without failure there is no success. Most of us fail at some point of our lives. It’s a necessary and fundamental part of our life. Every failure teaches us a lot. Failure informs our weakness, about our area of problem in our work. Failure will give the inspiration and guide to learn our mistakes and move on. Failure goes hand in hand with success. Without failure, one does not improve. If one does not improve then one cannot succeed. Here we share some of the most inspiring and motivational failure quotes and we hope these  quotes will help you to handle the failures in a better way.

Failure Quotes:

“I’ve come to believe that all my past failure and frustrations were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy”. 

- Tony Robbins

“In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure”.
- Bill Cosby

 “The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows”.
- Buddha

“We all do better when we work together. Our differences do matter, but our common humanity matters more.”

- Bill Clinton

“Failure will never overtake me if my definition to succeed is strong enough.”

- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

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

 “Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out”.
- Benjamin Franklin

“My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure”.
- Abraham Lincoln

 “Success is 99 percent failure”.
- Soichiro Honda

“You’ve got to have a villain and they’ll always make me a villain. I’m used to it – it makes me work harder and it makes me fight harder.”

- Floyd Joy Mayweather Jr. 

“Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God”.
- Charles Horton Cooley

“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

“Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable”.
- Coco Chanel

“I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying”.
- Michael Jordan

 “Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure”.
- Napoleon Hill

“There is no such thing as failure. There are only results”.
- Tony Robbins

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“No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other; find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure”.
- Napoleon Hill

 “Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success”.
-Dale Carnegie

“I don’t believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process”.
- Oprah Winfrey

“Don’t read success stories, you will only get message. Read failure stories, you will get some ideas to get success.”

- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

 “Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence”.
- Colin Powell

“It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure”.
- Bill Gates

 “A life which does not go into action is a failure”.
- Arnold J. Toynbee

“A minute’s success pays the failure of years”.
- Robert Browning

 “If you’re doing your best, you won’t have any time to worry about failure”.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

“A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success”.
- Elbert Hubbard

 “A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else”.
- John Burroughs

“I believe in trusting men, not only once but twice – in giving a failure another chance”.
- James Cash Penney

 “If you’re 40 years old and you’ve never had a failure, you’ve been deprived”.
- Gloria Swanson

“The freedom to fail is vital if you’re going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success”.
- Michael Korda

 “No man is a failure who is enjoying life”.
- William Feather

“Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities”.
- Walter Scott

“Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough”.
- Og Mandino

“We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world”.
- Charles Kettering

 “You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. 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

“Confidence and Hard-work is the best medicine to kill the disease called failure. It will make you a successful person”

- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Failure Quotes “Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure”.
- George Edward Woodberry

 “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

“There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows”.
- George Eliot

 “Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes”.
- John Dewey

“I’d rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate”.
- George Burns

 “Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven’t succeeded yet”.
- Robert H. Schuller

“No man can be a failure if he thinks he’s a success; if he thinks he is a winner, then he is”.
- Robert Service

 “There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose”.
- Kin Hubbard

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 “My reputation grows with every failure”.
- George Bernard Shaw

Failure Quotes “If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless”.
- Robert H. Schuller

“There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self”.
- William James

 “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts”.
- Winston Churchill

“Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive”.
- Scott Adams

“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm”.
- Winston Churchill

"One’s best success comes after his greatest disappointments." 
-Henry Ward Beecher 

"The better a man is, the more mistakes he will make, for the more new things he will try. I would never promote to a top-level job a man who was not making mistakes...otherwise he is sure to be mediocre." 
- Peter Druker 
"Everyone has his burden. What counts is how you carry it."
-Merle Miller 

"He is foolish to blame the sea who is shipwrecked twice."
- Publilius Syrus