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Quotes about Failure

Lack of loyalty is one of the major causes of failure in every walk of life.
- Napoleon Hill
The biggest mistake sometimes is to play things very safe in this life and end up being moral failures.
- Dorothy Day
The biggest mistake you can make in your life is to be always afraid of making a mistake.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Most people fail in life not because they aim too high and miss, but because they aim too low and hit.
- Les Brown
The greatest risk in life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing and becomes nothing.
- Norman Vincent Peale
I assume everything I do in life is gonna be a failure, and then if it turns up roses, then I'm psyched.
- Jonah Hill
To achieve your dreams, you must embrace adversity and make failure a regular part of your life. If you're not failing, you're probably not really moving forward.
- John Maxwell
There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
- George Eliot
Life is a game, where either you lose or you learn.
- Robert Kiyosaki
More men fail though lack of purpose than lack of talent.
- Billy Sunday
Life is all about learning and one of the most memorable ways of learning something is by messing up.
- Wayne Dyer
A verse of Scripture I often use in the face of failure with my own sins is Proverbs 24:16: "For though a righteous man falls seven times, he rises again, but the wicked are brought down by calamity." The person who is disciplining himself toward holiness falls many times, but he doesn't quit. After each failure he gets up and continues the struggle.
- Jerry Bridges