Quotes on Failure

Don't have any meetings about your web strategy. Just do stuff. First you have to fail, then you can improve.

Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems.

Things that are done, it is needless to speak about...things that are past, it is needless to blame.

I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.

Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one; and that one is his cowardice

It is better to fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than to succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker

Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.

In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.

So what if you fail? At least you'll know what not to do when you try again.

If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.

If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.

The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.

They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.

Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor, the conquerable will. There is no failure for the man who gets up every time he falls, who rebounds like a rubber ball, who persists when everyone else gives up, who pushes on when everyone else turns back.

You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed.

Success is never ending, failure is never final.

The challenge of education is not to prepare a person for success, but to prepare him for failure.

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

Rashness succeeds often, still more often fails.