“We confess to little faults only to persuade ourselves that we have no great ones.”
François de La Rochefoucauld
HonestySelf-Deception
Failure Quotes
200 FAMOUS QUOTES · FAILURE
Failure Quotes
Read 200 of the best failure quotes about mistakes, setbacks, trying again and turning failure into success, from Keats, Edison, Whitman and more.
“To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.”
Søren Kierkegaard
CourageRisk
“Oft expectation fails, and most oft there where most it promises.”
William Shakespeare
ExpectationsDisappointment
“Farewell! a long farewell, to all my greatness!”
William Shakespeare
DownfallLoss
“I have touch'd the highest point of all my greatness; and from that full meridian of my glory, I haste now to my setting.”
William Shakespeare
DownfallPride
“If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces.”
William Shakespeare
ActionHuman Nature
“Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, which we ascribe to heaven.”
William Shakespeare
ResponsibilitySelf-Reliance
“He that is down needs fear no fall.”
John Bunyan
HumilityHope
“He that stumbles and falls not, mends his pace.”
George Herbert
Near MissesLessons
“He that falls today may rise tomorrow.”
Thomas Fuller
HopeComebacks
“All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.”
Mark Twain
ConfidenceFunny
“Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.”
Oscar Wilde
SuccessMethod
“If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.”
Thomas H. Palmer
PersistenceNever Give Up
“Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the Lord upholdeth him with his hand.”
The Bible (Psalm 37:24)
FallingHope
“We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed.”
The Bible (2 Corinthians 4:8-9)
ResilienceFaith
“Master, we have toiled all the night, and have taken nothing: nevertheless at thy word I will let down the net.”
The Bible (Luke 5:5)
Try AgainFaith
“Howbeit the hair of his head began to grow again after he was shaven.”
The Bible (Judges 16:22)
ComebacksSecond Chances
“My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.”
The Bible (Psalm 73:26)
WeaknessStrength
“Get thee up; wherefore liest thou thus upon thy face?”
The Bible (Joshua 7:10)
Getting Back UpAction
“Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I love thee.”
The Bible (John 21:17)
RestorationSecond Chances
“The Lord upholdeth all that fall, and raiseth up all those that be bowed down.”
The Bible (Psalm 145:14)
HopeRising Again
“Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees.”
The Bible (Hebrews 12:12)
EncouragementStrength
“Be ye strong therefore, and let not your hands be weak: for your work shall be rewarded.”
The Bible (2 Chronicles 15:7)
PerseveranceReward
“Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God.”
The Bible (Psalm 42:11)
DiscouragementHope
“And when he thought thereon, he wept.”
The Bible (Mark 14:72)
RegretHumanity