Failure Quotes

130 quotations about Failure
Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
Henry David Thoreau · Failure
It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.
Brian Tracy · Failure
The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall.
Source Unknown · Failure
There is no such thing as accidental failure. All failure is at least half imposed.
Source Unknown · Failure
Failure is not the worst thing in the world -- the very worst is not to try
Source Unknown · Failure
Failure is the path of least persistence
Source Unknown · Failure
Even a tombstone says good things about a fellow who's down.
Source Unknown · Failure
Success is the proper utilization of failure.
Source Unknown · Failure
If you've never failed you've never tried.
Source Unknown · Failure
Just because you've lost doesn't necessarily mean you've failed.
Source Unknown · Failure
Past failures are guideposts to success.
Source Unknown · Failure
People don't fail, they give up
Source Unknown · Failure
Silicon Valley is a graveyard. Failure is Silicon Valley's greatest strength.
Source Unknown · Failure
You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.
Source Unknown · Failure
When you stand at the edge of the cliff, jump to fly, not to fall.
Source Unknown · Failure
You can fail so very often. But you are not a failure until you give up.
Source Unknown · Failure
When you fall, don't get up empty handed
Source Unknown · Failure
Your failures won't hurt you until you start blaming them on others.
Source Unknown · Failure
Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.
Marquis De Vauvenargues · Failure
In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.
David Viscott · Failure
There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.
Denis Waitley · Failure
The only true failure lies in failure to start.
Harold Blake Walker · Failure
The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.
Gerald. N. Weiskott · Failure
He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts.
Richard Whately · Failure
Every failure is a step to success.
William Whewell · Failure

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