Failure Quotes

... No one is less happy than I am with the performance of Microsoft stock! I've lost tens of billions of dollars this year -- if you check, you'll see that's more than most people make in a lifetime!

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

I never failed once. It just happened to be a 2000-step process.

I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

I never view mistakes as failures. They are simply opportunities to find out what doesn't work.

I didn't fail 1000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1000 steps.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles

It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

It is better to make a mistake than to do nothing.