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Quotes About Persistence

What can any of us do with his talent but try to develop his vision, so that through frequent failures we may learn better what we have missed in the past.
~ William Carlos Williams
Negative results are just what I want. They're just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don't.
~ Thomas A. Edison
To develop working ideas efficiently, I try to fail as fast as I can.
~ Richard P. Feynman
Success simple disciplines, practiced every day, while failure a few errors in judgment, repeated every day. Choose to succeed.
~ Jim Rohn
Failure is not the outcome - failure is not trying. Don't be afraid to fail.
~ Sara Blakely
There is no such thing as a failure who keeps trying.
~ John Popper
The one good thing about failure is that it makes you consider doing things a different way.
~ Marianne Williamson
Failure is the only thing I've ever been a success at.
~ Bob Hope
The only failure is not trying.
~ Robin Sharma
I will not say I failed 1000 times, I will say that I discovered there are 1000 ways that can cause failure
~ Thomas A. Edison
Even though the ship may go down, the journey goes on.
~ Margaret Mead
Learning is about failure and recovery from failure.
~ Roger Schank
Movie failures are like the common cold. You can stay in bed and take aspirin for six days and recover. Or you can walk around and ignore it for six days and recover.
~ Gene Tierney
Nothing fails like failure
~ Margaret Drabble
Defeat ends when we launch into another battle. Failure has no end: it is a lifetime choice.
~ Paulo Coelho
There is no such thing as failure for an artist, unless failure is the refusal to attempt, the unwillingness to dream.
~ Laurence Overmire
It's the ability to resist failure, in many ways, or use failure that often leads to the greatest success, isn't it?
~ J. K. Rowling
There's no such thing as failure if you just try.
~ Kendall Schmidt
Making mistakes doesn't mean that what you did was a failure, or the wrong take. It was just a 'mis-take.' You need to go back and do another take. In each take there is a lesson.
~ Wally Amos
Failure is not an option. It just happens all the time. Like, all the time.
~ Craig Benzine
Failure is... the highway to success.
~ Og Mandino
To think of failure is to fail.
~ Arthur Saxon
Failure leaves open a door for us to try, and try again.
~ Robert M. Hensel
With failure, you just try again.
~ Judd Nelson