Quotes on Failure

We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure-all your life.

In failing circumstances no one can be relied on to keep their integrity.

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

Failure, to me, is not having the desire to try. Having the desire to try is in it own way success.

One who fears failure limits his activities. Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again.

My failures may be my greatest successes. It is in failure that I have often drawn closer to God, learn to depend more on Him than myself, gained self-knowledge, and seen things in their right perspective.

Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.

Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

When on the brink of complete discouragement, success is discerning that...the line between failure and success is so fine that often a single extra effort is all that is needed to bring victory out of defeat.

Failure is not the opposite of success; it's part of success.

We are not a failure just because we fail at something. Nobody is a failure unless they quit trying!

Whatever we succeed in doing is a transformation of something we have failed to do. Thus, when we fail, it is only because we have given up.

Revolutionaries were depressed and close to emotional breakdown; after the failure, they left successively.

If you're so afraid of failure, you will never succeed. You have to take chances.

If you're willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.

Give us, O God, the vision which can see Your love in the world in spite of human failure. Give us the faith to trust Your goodness in spite of our ignorance and weakness. Give us the knowledge that we may continue to pray with understanding hearts. And show us what each one of us can do to set forward the coming of the day of universal peace.

It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success.

Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds - all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.

Comedy was my sport. It taught me how to roll with the punches. Failure is the exact same as success when it comes to comedy because it just keeps coming. It never stops.

Our country's honor calls upon us for a vigorous and manly exertion; and if we now shamefully fail, we shall become infamous to the whole world.