Failure Quotes

“I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.”

John Keats

“Results! Why, man, I have gotten lots of results! I know several thousand things that won't work.”

Thomas Edison

“We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do.”

Samuel Smiles

“It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures.”

Samuel Smiles

“Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.”

Samuel Smiles

“The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill.”

Samuel Smiles

“There is no failure except in no longer trying.”

Elbert Hubbard

“A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.”

Elbert Hubbard

“The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.”

Theodore Roosevelt

“Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.”

Emily Dickinson

“That low man seeks a little thing to do, sees it and does it: this high man, with a great thing to pursue, dies ere he knows it.”

Robert Browning

“We have not wings, we cannot soar; but we have feet to scale and climb by slow degrees.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.”

Walt Whitman

“Vivas to those who have fail'd!”

Walt Whitman

“Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.”

Robert Louis Stevenson

“If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.”

G. K. Chesterton

“Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.”

Seneca

“Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.”

Seneca

“I would prefer even to fail with honour than win by cheating.”

Sophocles

“To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.”

Plutarch

“Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.”

Cicero

“It is possible to fail in many ways, while to succeed is possible only in one way; to miss the mark easy, to hit it difficult.”

Aristotle

“To have faults and not to reform them, this, indeed, should be pronounced having faults.”

Confucius

“The people in their conduct of affairs are constantly ruining them when they are on the eve of success.”

Lao Tzu