Failure Quotes

It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.

Samuel Smiles

If one asks for success and prepares for failure, he will get the situation he has prepared for.

Florence Scovel Shinn

The wisest person is not the one who has the fewest failures but the one who turns failures to best account.

Richard R. Grant

The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures.

Humphrey Davy

No one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend.

Groucho Marx

Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.

Florence Shinn

The origin of every excuse is the failure to do something.

Andy Anderson

You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

Far better is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

Theodore Roosevelt, The Man in the Arena

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

Henry Ford

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Sir Winston Churchill

The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.

Ayn Rand, Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal, 1966

You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them.

Orison Swett Marden

If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.

Mary Pickford

There are two kinds of failures those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

Laurence J. Pete

If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.

Thomas John Watson, Sr.

Recovering from failure is often easier than building from success.

Michael Eisne

Our repeated failure to fully act as we would wish must not discourage us. It is the sincere intention that is the essential thing, and this will in time release us from the bondage of habits which at present seem almost insuperable.

Thomas Troward

In a total work, the failures have their not unimportant place.

May Sarton