Quotes on Failure

Disappointments are to the soul what a thunderstorm is to the air.

In this game that we're playing, we can't win. Some kinds of failure are better than other kinds, that's all.

He who can wait for what he desires takes the course not to be exceedingly grieved if he fails of it; he, on the contrary, who labors after a thing too impatiently thinks the success when it comes is not a recompense equal to all the pains he has been at about it.

If this fail, The pillar'd firmament is rottenness, And earth's base built on stubble.

Where wealth and freedom reign contentment fails, And honour sinks where commerce long prevails.

We must not fail, individually, for if we fail, we fail twice - for ourselves and for those who could have been helped, if we had done our duty.

Stand still, true poet that you are! I know you; let me try and draw you. Some night you'll fail us: when afar You rise, remember one man saw you, Knew you, and named a star!

What stands if Freedom fail? What dies of England live?

Where Example keeps pace with Authority, Power hardly fails to be obey'd.

Learn to fail with pride - and do so fast and cleanly. Maximise trial and error - by mastering the error part.

Meet your failure nobly, and it will not differ from success.

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Learn from the negative as well as the positive, from the failures as well as the successes.

He is foolish to blame the sea that is shipwrecked twice.

There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.

A shy failure is nobler than an immodest success.

Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

There is an Eye that never sleeps, Beneath the wind of night. There is an ear that never shuts, When sinks the beams of light. There is an Arm that never tires, When human strength gives way. There is a Love that never fails, When earthly loves decay.

My days among the dead are passed; Around me I behold, Where'er these casual eyes are cast, The mighty minds of old; My never-failing friends are they, With whom I converse day by day.

If we achieve our sustainability targets and no one else follows, we will have failed.