Failure Quotes

My reputation grows with every failure.
George Bernard Shaw

All my successes have been built on my failures.
Benjamin Disraeli

Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
Colin Powell

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit.
Napoleon Hill

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, only this time more wisely.
Henry Ford

I have not failed.  I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.
Thomas Edison

A man may fall many times, but he won’t be a failure until he says that someone pushed him.
Elmer G. Letterman

For every failure, there’s an alternative course of action.
Anonymous

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.
Mary Kay Ash

Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Thomas Edison

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.
Napoleon Hill

The only time you don’t fail is the last time you try anything – and it works.
William Strong

But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears.
Joaquin Miller

An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he’s in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.
Charles F. Kettering

I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
Bill Cosby

There is no failure except in no longer trying.
Elbert Hubbard

Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.
Daniel WebsterEvery failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success.
Napoleon Hill

I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.
Thomas Alva Edison

I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
Bill Cosby

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
Gore Vidal

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

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.
Napoleon Hill

I do not believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.
Oprah Winfrey

Think success and it will happen. Think failure and it will happen.
Thomas D. Willhite

You’re on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.
Anonymous

Act as if it were impossible to fail.
Dorothea Brande

Men are born to succeed, not fail.
Henry David Thoreau

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.
Beverly Sills

I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.
Michael Jordan

All human actions are equivalent… and all are on principle doomed to failure.
Carl Sandburg

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.
George Burns

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

Don’t fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things.
Louis Boone

Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan

It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.
Aristotle

I didn’t fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.
Benjamin Franklin

Don’t be afraid of failure; be afraid of petty success.
Maude Adams

Pain is temporary, Failure lasts for ever.
Lance Armstrong

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Winston Churchill