Failure Quotes
130 quotations about Failure
They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.
You win only if you aren't afraid to lose.
We are all failures -- at least, all the best of us are.
If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.
I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.
A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.
My downfall raises me to infinite heights.
Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.
A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
To win you've got to stay in the game.
Failure is an event, never a person.
Failure is the tuition you pay for success.
Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
The only people who never fail are those who never try.
Honest error is to be pitied, not ridiculed.
You cannot explain failure any more than you can argue with success.
You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.
To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures.
Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.
Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
Authors on Failure
African Proverb
Thomas B. Aldrich
Rocky Aoki
Sir James M. Barrie
Steve Bartkowski
Anne Baxter
Samuel Beckett
Sir Max Beerbohm
Arthur Bloch
Napoleon Bonaparte
Kenneth Ewart Boulding
Christian Nevell Bovee
Claude M. Bristol
William D. Brown
Walter Brunell
George Washington Carver
Ilka Chase
Lord Chesterfield
Chinese Proverb
J. Richard Clarke