Failure Quotes

130 quotations about Failure
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
Thomas A. Edison · Failure
I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work.
Thomas A. Edison · Failure
There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
George Eliot · Failure
The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.
George Eliot · Failure
No man is a failure who is enjoying life.
William Feather · Failure
A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.
Ferdinand Foch · Failure
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
Henry Ford · Failure
And nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope.
Robert Frost · Failure
He's no failure. He's not dead yet.
William Lloyd George · Failure
Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.
Charles J. Givens · Failure
No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.
William E. Gladstone · Failure
We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.
David Grayson · Failure
Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.
Thomas C. Haliburton · Failure
He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.
Joseph Heller · Failure
Sometimes the best gain is to lose.
George Herbert · Failure
Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.
Napoleon Hill · Failure
No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.
Napoleon Hill · Failure
If you are doing your best, you will not have to worry about failure.
Robert S. Hillyer · Failure
Success is 99 percent failure.
Soichiro Honda · Failure
I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.
Tom Hopkins · Failure
Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.
Elbert Hubbard · Failure
A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.
Elbert Hubbard · Failure
There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.
Thomas H. Huxley · Failure
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.
William James · Failure
There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.
John Keats · 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