Failure Quotes

One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake - Anton Pavlovich Chekhov.

It is possible to fail in many ways.. while to succeed is possible only in one way - Aristotle.

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try - Beverly Sills.

I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody - Bill Cosby.

If at first you don’t succeed, find out if the loser gets anything - Bill Lyon.

One fails forward toward success - Charles F. Kettering.

Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God - Charles Horton Cooley.

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience - Elbert Hubbard.

There is no failure except in no longer trying - Elbert Hubbard.

A man may fall many times, but he won’t be a failure until he says that someone pushed him - Elmer G. Letterman.

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat - F. Scott Fitzgerald.

My reputation grows with every failure - George Bernard Shaw.

You can’t have any successes unless you can accept failure - George Cukor.

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail - Gore Vidal.

It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success - Havelock Ellis.

Men are born to succeed, not fail - Henry David Thoreau.

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently - Henry Ford.

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure: which is: Try to please everybody - Herbert B. Swope.

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes - John Dewey.

Nothing fails like success because we don’t learn from it. We learn only from failure - Kenneth Boudling.

There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought - Laurence J. Peter.

The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed - Lloyd Jones.

Failure changes for the better, success for the worse - Lucius Annaeus Seneca.

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.

There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success - Max Beerbohm.

There are defeats more triumphant than victories - Michel de Montaigne.

You always pass failure on your way to success - Mickey Rooney.

You always pass failure on the way to success - Mickey Rooney.

Success isn’t permanent, and failure isn’t fatal - Mike Ditka.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes - Oscar Wilde.

If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style - Quentin Crisp.

We all have a few failures under our belt. It’s what makes us ready for the successes - Randy K. Milholland.

There is no failure. Only feedback - Robert Allen.

A minute’s success pays the failure of years - Robert Browning.

Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits - Robert Louis Stevenson.

Failure doesn’t mean you are a failure, it just means you haven’t succeeded yet - Robert Schuller.

Try again. Fail again. Fail better - Samuel Beckett.

We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery - Samuel Smiles.

It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done - Samuel Smiles.

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.

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm - Sir Winston Churchill.

I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work - Thomas Alva Edison.

Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up - Thomas Alva Edison.

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 - Walt Whitman.

Failure is an event, never a person - William D. Brown.

No man is a failure who is enjoying life - William Feather.

Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know - William Saroyan.

The only time you don’t fail is the last time you try anything - and it works - William Strong.

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm - Winston Churchill.

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm - Winston Churchill