Failure Quotes
130 quotations about Failure
When someone is going downhill everyone likes to give them a kick.
Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.
Everyone pushes a falling fence.
The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet.
No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back.
If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win
Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.
Some defeats are only installments to victory.
There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.
Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.
Show me a good and gracious loser and I'll show you a failure.
Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
You always pass failure on the way to success.
If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
Men do not fail; they give up trying.
Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.
Turn your scars into stars
If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.
The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.
I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.
Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.
Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.
The only time you don't fail is the last time you try anything -- and it works.
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