Quotes on Failure

Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.

Don't fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

Several excuses are always less convincing than one.

In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.

The person who failed often knows how to avoid future failures. The person who knows only success can be more oblivious to all the pitfalls.

Good taste is the excuse I've always given for leading such a bad life

Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.

A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. But it's not. It takes patience, it takes commitment, and it comes with plenty of failure along the way. The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won't. it's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.

Success is relative. It is what we make of the mess we have made of things.

When you get rid of your fear of failure, your tensions about succeeding... you can be yourself. Relaxed. You'll no longer be driving with your brakes on.

There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?

Our task is to become our best selves. One of God's greatest gifts to us is the joy of trying again, for no failure ever need be final.

You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.

My past is everything I failed to be.

Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgement, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is PRIDE, the never-failing vice of fools.

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.

Success, after all, loves a witness, but failure can't exist without one.

There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.