Quotes about Failure

"In great attempts it is glorious even to fail."
-- Cassius Longinus

"Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail."
-- Charles F. Kettering

"Success has made failures of many men."
-- Cindy Adams

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."
-- Confucius

"Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them."
-- Dan Mckinnon

"You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there."
-- Edwin Louis Cole

"Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses."
-- George Washington Carver

"The only true failure lies in failure to start."
-- Harold Blake Walker

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

"You cannot explain failure any more than you can argue with success."
-- J. Richard Clarke

"Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts."
-- Jules Ellinger

"Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure."
-- Kenneth Boulding

"Thought is born of failure."
-- Lancelot Law Whyte

"Many a man never fails because he never tries."
-- Norman Macewan

"If you are doing your best, you will not have to worry about failure."
-- Robert S. Hillyer

"You win only if you aren't afraid to lose."
-- Rocky Aoki

"Failure is an event, never a person."
-- William D. Brown

"No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes."
-- William E. Gladstone

"Every failure is a step to success."
-- William Whewell