Quotes About Failure

Failure really isn't terrible if you can say to yourself, hey, I know I'm gonna be successful at what I want to do someday. Failure doesn't become a big hangup then because it's only temporary. If failure is absolute, then it would be a disaster, but as long as it's only temporary you can just go and achieve almost anything.

Failure is an event, never a person.

The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

Sometimes what you want to do has to fail so you won't.

Because a fellow has failed once or twice, or a dozen times, you don't want to set him down as a failure until he's dead or loses his courage - and that's the same thing.

You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, it's nothing against you to fall down flat, but to lie there - that's disgrace.

If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down.

Perhaps the only real failure is that implying waste, a conscious and flagrant non-use or misuse of ability.

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

Those who try and fail are much wiser than those who never try for fear of failure.

To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and fall.

Failure is something made only by those who fail to dare, not by those who dare to fail.

No experiment is ever a complete failure. It can always be used as a bad example.

Failure is the foundation of success, and the means by which it is achieved.

It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression.

Failure ... is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterward carefully avoid.

We need to teach a highly educated person that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts of the world.

It's good to fail now and again - you learn a lot more out of failure than you do out of success.

One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.

Through failure, we learn a lesson in humility which is probably needed, painful though it is.

Lack of will power has caused more failures than lack of intelligence or ability.

The word fate ... is the refuge of every self-confessed failure.

Half the things that people do not succeed in are through fear of making the attempt.

Half the failures in life come from pulling one's horse in when he is leaping.