Failure Quotes, Sayings about Failing

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.

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