It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression. Eric Hoffer
He that fails in his endeavours after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage. Samuel Johnson
I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. Bill Cosby
I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. Thomas Alva Edison
We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery. Samuel Smiles
Success is never certain. Failure is never final. Robert Schuller
One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure. John W Gardner
Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street. Zig Ziglar
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavour. Truman Capote
A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience. Elbert G Hubbard
No man who has managed to keep out of an office can be called a failure in life. Richard Aldington
It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final. Roger Babson
I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately triumph than to triumph in a cause that will ultimately fail. Woodrow Wilson
I would rather attempt something great and fail than attempt to do nothing and succeed. Robert Schuller
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail. Napoleon Hill
He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts. Richard Whately
We are all failures – at least the best of us are. J M Barrie
There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success. Max Beerbohm
Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself. Charlie Chaplin
A man’s life is interesting primarily when he has failed – I well know. For it’s a sign that he tried to surpass himself. Georges Clemenceau
If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style. Quentin Crisp
Don’t be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid. John Keats
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse. Rudyard Kipling
Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital. Daniel Webster
Every failure made me more confident. Because I wanted even more to achieve as revenge. To show that I could. Roman Polanski
There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail. Erich Fromm
There is a certain satisfaction in living a life in complete and total failure. Edward Abbey
When we begin to take our failures non-seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves. Katherine Mansfield
He who has never failed somewhere, that man can never be great. Herman Melville
There is always time for failure. John Mortimer
Failure is the path of least resistance. J M Barrie
A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough. Christian Nestell Bovee
It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to hold on to beliefs that don’t work. Jerry Gillies
Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It’s courage that counts. John Wooden
I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest. John Keats
Men do not fail; they give up trying. Elihu Root
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. George E Woodberry
I have a congenital aversion to failure. Abraham Lincoln
Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough. Og Mandino
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed. Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Unless you’re willing to have a go, fail miserably, and have another go, success won’t happen. Phillip Adams