31 Quotes on Failure

1. Failure is an event, never a person.  ~William D. Brown
2. The only time you don't fail is the last time you try anything - and it works.  ~William Strong
3. I have not failed.  I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.  ~Thomas Edison
4. I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.  ~Bill Cosby
5. There is no failure except in no longer trying.  ~Elbert Hubbard
6. Supposing you have tried and failed again and again.  You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.  ~Mary Pickford
7. Try again.  Fail again.  Fail better.  ~Samuel Beckett
8. Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet.  ~Robert Schuller
9. One fails forward toward success.  ~Charles F. Kettering
10. One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.  ~Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
11. A man may fall many times, but he won't be a failure until he says that someone pushed him.  ~Elmer G. Letterman
12. Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.  ~F. Scott Fitzgerald
13. Just once it might be instructive to pretend you're accepting an award for failure, just to see who you would thank.  ~Robert Brault
14. In a world flagrant with the failures of civilization, what is there particularly immortal about our own?  ~G.K. Chesterton
15. They say President Wilson has blundered.  Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward.  ~Thomas Edison
16. There are defeats more triumphant than victories.  ~Michel de Montaigne
17. Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit.  You have to fall back upon humanity and God.  ~Charles Horton Cooley
18. Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, "I have failed three times," and what happens when he says, "I am a failure."  ~S.I. Hayakawa
19. A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.  ~Elbert Hubbard
20. No man is a failure who is enjoying life.  ~William Feather
21. Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.  ~Henry Ford
22. Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times, you don't want to set him down as a failure till he's dead or loses his courage.  ~George Horace Lorimer
23. You can't have any successes unless you can accept failure.  ~George Cukor
24. There is no failure.  Only feedback.  ~Robert Allen
25. Failure changes for the better, success for the worse.  ~Lucius Annaeus Seneca
26. There is much to be said for failure.  It is more interesting than success.  ~Max Beerbohm
27. You always pass failure on your way to success.  ~Mickey Rooney
28. Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it.  We learn only from failure.  ~Kenneth Boudling
29. Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.  ~Robert Louis Stevenson
30. It is a mistake to suppose that people succeed through success; they often succeed through failures.  ~Author Unknown
31. The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed.  ~Lloyd Jones