Quotes about Failure

If you start your own thing, you can learn a lot really fast from doing things wrong.

He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.

If people are basically selfish -and they are- then asking them to work hard yet earn no more than their unproductive neighbor is asking more than they'll rarely give. But we already know that; communism has failed.

You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children's children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done.

when the ambitious man whose slogan is "Either Caesar or nothing" does not get to be Caesar, he despairs over it. But this also means something else: precisely because he did not get to be Caesar, he now cannot bear to be himself.

Continual failure is a road to success - if you have the strength to go on.

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action.

Self-belief does not necessarily ensure success, but self-disbelief assuredly spawns failure.

I've observed that if individuals who prevail in a highly competitive environment have any one thing in common besides success, it is failure—and their ability to overcome it.

Failure is part of success, an integral part. Everybody gets knocked down. Knowing it will happen and what you must do when it does is the first step back.