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Failure Quotes

The reality is, sometimes, you lose. And you're never too good to lose. And you're never too big to lose. You're never too smart to lose.

You can't fly unless you let yourself fall.

I've often felt there might be more to be gained by studying business failures than business successes.

Failure comes from ego, greed, envy, fear, imitation. I have success not because I am smart, but because I am rational.

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

Once you start working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it.People who work sincerely are the happiest.

My debts are large, my failures great, my shame secret and heavy; yet I come to ask for my good, I quake in fear lest my prayer be granted.

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.

Do not allow yourselves to be disheartened by any failure as long as you have done your best.

If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few. The future depends on what we do in the present.

People are not remembered by how few times they fail, but by how often they succeed. Every wrong step is another step forward.

The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn't like to do.

They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward.

There is great value in disaster. All our mistakes are burned up. Thank God we can start a new.

The biggest failure of man is that he gives up before he realizes how close he was to success.

I failed my way to success.

Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

No, I haven't failed thousands of times. On the contrary, I have successfully eliminated thousands of ideas that do not work!

A failure teaches you that something can't be done-that way.