Failing Quotes

“Failure is constructive feedback that tells you to try a different approach to accomplish what you want.”
― Idowu Koyenikan, Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability

“It is sometimes a mistake to climb; it is always a mistake never even to make the attempt. If you do not climb, you will not fall. This is true. But is it that bad to fail, that hard to fall?”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 6: Fables & Reflections

“Giving up is always an option, but not always a failure.”
― Cameron Conaway, Caged: Memoirs of a Cage-Fighting Poet

“Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.”
― William Saroyan

“You try again. You fail better.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“If it all looks good on the surface, I'll know I've failed at life”
― Julia Hoban, Willow

“Oh, sweet little boy, beloved little girl, you are so overwhelmed by life sometimes, I know, by the enormity of it all, by the vastness of the possibilities, by the myriad of perspectives available to you. You feel so pressed down sometimes, by all the unresolved questions, by all the information you are supposed to process and hold, by the urgency of things. You are overcome by powerful emotions, trying to make it all" work out "somehow, trying to get everything done" on time, "trying to resolve things so fast, even trying not to try at all.
You are exhausted, sweet one, exhausted from all the trying and the not trying, and you are struggling to trust life again. It's all too much for the poor organism, isn't it? You are exhausted; you long to rest. And that is not a failing of yours, not a horrible mistake, but something wonderful to embrace!”
― Jeff Foster, Way of Rest

“Don’t think about the possibilities of failing. Never forget to think about the possibilities of flying.”
― Debasish Mridha

“I was there to see beautiful naked women. So was everybody else. It's a common failing.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Expanded Universe

“Sacredness and profanity and prayers and wishes: they're all held together by the broken limbs of this dead tree, raking the night sky with its blackened branches. We are so small, the two of us. The tree and sky are so large and grand. We could fail so easily, fall before we've begun to rise.”
― Elora Bishop, Braided: A Lesbian Rapunzel

“Failure is not the deterrent for the next try. Rather, it is information that empowers the next step.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I have a daughter I have never held.
She has a scent I have never smelled
She has a name I have never yelled.
She has a mother who has already failed.
Love,
Kenna”
― Colleen Hoover, Reminders of Him

“As the chapters took shape, a change came over her. It was the double-sided recognition that this book, the last that she would write, might achieve esteem and success equal to her great novel, but that its emotional heart would lie in her own unhappiness for having failed to find the one thing she wanted. For the first time she was a character in her own writing, and her frailties and mistakes were trapped on the page by the beauty and unsparing focus of her prose. Towards the end it was a battle to finish a page. The story was the story she had told herself for decades, deep within her own mind, and now as it grew, line by line, on the paper before her, she wrestled with each turn in the path all over again, as if it were still possible to change its course with the power of her words.”
― Frederick Weisel, Teller

“Failure is delay but not defeat.
It is a temporary detour, not a dead-end street.”
― William Arthur Ward

“Failure is an opportunity to rise higher than before.”
― Edwin Dearborn, Power Branding Secrets: Spark Customer Interest and Ignite Your Sales

“Everything we do is falling. Even walking is a kind of controlled falling. But that's not the same as failing.”
― Jeanette Winterson, The Gap of Time

“I'm stuck between giving up and already done. I'm not sure where I am right now but there's no light at the end of the tunnel and the end feels near”
― Kabashe Pillay

“Developing the diagnosis and treatment of High Altitude Observatory Disease became my priority in my late forties as my health was drastically failing.”
― Steven Magee

“Searching the internet for clues as to why my health was failing was a regular activity for me.”
― Steven Magee, Magee’s Disease

“Failing to adapt to a growing mental health crisis is how the government will be remembered by future generations.”
― Steven Magee

“Historic gun laws from a different era are failing modern citizens.”
― Steven Magee

“Long COVID should be suspected in people with unusual failing health.”
― Steven Magee, Night Shift Recovery

“Funny how even then, as systems failed, flickered out, institutions revealed as paper thin, that so many couldn't bring themselves to believe in anything. That it helped if you didn't. Better to observe the rituals, use the catchphrases. Share your concern.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Hummingbird Salamander

“Success isn't a straight line but failure is, you fail straight but you succeed by bending, mending, and molding that line of failure until you reach that position and place you called success.”
― Aiyaz Uddin

“After many years of effort to save a failing relationship due to having a child, the discovery of numerous secret affairs brought it to a close.”
― Steven Magee

“Going into a game of tennis: If you go in determined to win, and then your opponent is playing better than you, you're probably going to get anxious and feel that you're failing.

Whereas if you go in determined to play as well as you can, then it doesn't matter if your opponent is a bit better than you or if they start to win: you're not failing.”
― Derren Brown

“It is not how heavy you fall.
It is how fast you catch yourself.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

“There's no need to feel like you're failing because you're not happy all the time. The absence of cheerfulness is not a disorder. Your goal is not to be constantly happy or revel day and night in the dopamine-coated candy of immediate gratification.”
― Katherine Morgan Schafler, The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control: A Path to Peace and Power

“Take a break, for you are not made to win this rat race. Try something different, something unique; something worth failing, worth falling.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, 10 GOLDEN Steps of Life

“Don’t underestimate how far your stupidity can take you.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough