Failure Quotes

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

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

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default.

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.

If you want to succeed, double your failure rate.

What goes up must come down.

We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.

There was never any fear for me, no fear of failure. If I miss a shot, so what?

There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.

The only failure is not to try.

That this awareness of my own fallibility will prevent me from making many mistakes doesn’t alter the fact that I’m bound to make a great many mistakes anyway. But if we fall, we get up again![Dat de bewustheid van mijn eigen feilbaarheid mij voor veel fouten bewaren zal neemt niet weg dat ik toch zeker nog erg veel fouten begaan zal. Maar als we vallen staan we weer op!]

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