106 Best Failure Quotes

Your faults as a son, is my failure as a father. – Marcus Aurelius

Can we just have a moment of silence for the late, great Jurassic World? – Lowery Cruthers

I am in a world of shit. – Private Pyle

Are you quitting on me? Well, are you? Then quit, you slimy fucking walrus-looking piece of shit! – Gunnery Sergeant Hartman

The jerk store called, they're running out of you! – George Costanza

That's not a tactic, that's a tragedy! – Major Payne

It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness; that is life. – Captain Picard

You guys are the worst detectives ever. – Mary Jane

Why do we fall, Bruce? So we can learn to pick ourselves up. – Thomas Wayne

I didn't see it because I wasn't looking. – Superman

Well, he really hit the shit outta that one, didn't he? – Larry

You know, a guy can get kicked in the head and get amnesia and forget who he is, and it's a blessing. – Jimmy

Thank you for nothing, you useless reptile. – Hiccup

Sometimes there are no words, no clever quotes to neatly sum up what's happened that day. Sometimes you do everything right, everything exactly right, and still you feel like you failed. – Aaron Hotchner

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. – Theodore Roosevelt

Stumbling is not falling. – Malcolm X

A failure is to be preferred to an unattained success, for the failure at least gives you knowledge. – Abraham Maslow

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail. – Benjamin Franklin

Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. But it's not. It takes patience, it takes commitment, and it comes with plenty of failure along the way. – Barack Obama

If you want to be inventive, you have to be willing to fail. – Jeff Bezos

It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure. – Bill Gates

You see, our glory isn't in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. – Michelle Obama

You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over. – Richard Branson

A passionate commitment to your business and personal objectives can make all the difference between success and failure. – Richard Branson

Don't be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again. – Richard Branson

Challenge yourself, be bold, and don't be afraid to fail. – Richard Branson

You are failing us. But the young people are starting to understand your betrayal. – Greta Thunberg

You have to be able to accept failure to get better. – LeBron James

Don’t be afraid of failure. This is the way to succeed. – LeBron James

You can’t be afraid to fail. It’s the only way you succeed – you’re not gonna succeed all the time, and I know that. – LeBron James

I want to win. But I’m not afraid of failure. – LeBron James

I really think a champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall. – Serena Williams

The fear of failure should never be a reason not to try something. – Tim Cook

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

In a world that's changing so quickly, you're guaranteed to fail if you don't take any risks. – Mark Zuckerberg

I think failure is not something to be afraid of. It’s part of the journey. – Michelle Yeoh

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy. – Tony Robbins

We have to be willing to lean into uncertainty, take risks and move quickly when we make mistakes, recognizing failure happens along the way to mastery. – Satya Nadella

The key is to set audacious goals and then fail fast so you can iterate and improve. – Larry Page

I learned the hard way about cash flow. It doesn't matter how much revenue you have, if you run out of cash, you're done. – Mark Cuban

You have to be willing to fail, to be wrong, to have tried and not succeeded. – Mark Cuban

It doesn't matter how many times you fail. You only have to be right once and then everyone can tell you that you are an overnight success. – Mark Cuban

You learn more in failure than you do in success. – Mark Cuban

The number one reason for failure is not listening to the customer. – Mark Cuban

If you don’t give up, you still have a chance. Giving up is the greatest failure. – Jack Ma

When we have money, we start making mistakes. – Jack Ma

Instead of learning from other people’s success, learn from their mistakes. Most of the people who fail share common reasons to fail, while success can be attributed to various kinds of reasons. – Jack Ma

If you want to be successful, learn from the other’s mistakes, not from their success. – Jack Ma

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

Giving up is the ultimate tragedy. – Arianna Huffington