Quotes About Failure

Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.  ~ Robert Louis Stevenson


The only time you don't fail is the last time you try anything - and it works.  ~ William Strong


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


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


Try again. Fail again. Fail better.  ~ Samuel Beckett


We are all failures - at least, all the best of us are.  ~ J.M. Barrie


Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.  ~ Charlie Chaplin


What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail?  ~ Robert Schuller


The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed.  ~ Lloyd Jones


One fails forward toward success.  ~ Charles F. Kettering


I think the greatest taboos in America are faith and failure.  ~ Michael Malone


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


You always pass failure on your way to success.  ~ Mickey Rooney


If at first you don't succeed, try to hide your astonishment.  ~ Harry F. Banks


A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.  ~ Elbert Hubbard


No man is a failure who is enjoying life.  ~ William Feather


Fall seven times, stand up eight.  ~ Japanese proverb


Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet.  ~ Robert Schuller


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


There are defeats more triumphant than victories.  ~ Michel de Montaigne