Failure Quotes

If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.

Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal.

We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.

Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because it's easier, isn't it? Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.

Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

If you're willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.

Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.

Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than I was and began diverting all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not lived at all. In which case, you've failed by default.

Behind many acts that are thought ridiculous there lie wise and weighty motives.

Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

You always pass failure on the way to success.

A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.