Quotes about Failure

"A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying."

"Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something."

"Success is not built on success. It's built on failure. It's built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe."

"Mistakes are the portals of discovery."

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

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

"You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give."

"I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying."

"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

"Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor."

"Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again."

"Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit."

"A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else."

"You always pass failure on your way to success."

"Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing."

"Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."

"The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success."

"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery."

"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be."

"Success comes when people act together; failure tends to happen alone."

"Remember that failure is an event, not a person."

"Failure is a word unknown to me."

"Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances."

"Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday."

"If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style."

"Losing is no disgrace if you've given your best."

"Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success."

"Show me a good and gracious loser and I'll show you a failure."

"Failure is central to engineering. Every single calculation that an engineer makes is a failure calculation. Successful engineering is all about understanding how things break or fail."

"Ambition is the last refuge of the failure."

"Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure."

"Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important."

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