Failures Quotes

It ain't no disgrace for a man to fall but to lie there and grunt is.

~ Josh Billings

If you have made mistakes even serious ones there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.

~ Mary Pickford

If a man has a talent and cannot use it he has failed. If he has a talent and uses only half of it he has partly failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it he has gloriously succeeded and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.

~ Thomas Wolfe

Not failure but low aim is a crime.

~ Ernest Holmes

There is only one real failure in life that is possible and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

~ Frederic W. Farrar

Perhaps the only real failure is that implying waste a conscious and flagrant non-use or misuse of ability.

~ Joseph H. Odell

There are two kinds of failures: The man who will do nothing he is told and the man who will do nothing else.

~ Dr. Perle Thompson

The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

~ George Eliot

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

~ Elbert Hubbard

Men do not fail they stop trying.

~ Elihu Root

Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.

~ Mary Kay Ash

It is a very dangerous thing to have an idea that you will not practice.

~ Phyllis Bottome

If you risk nothing then you risk everything.

~ Geena Davis

Men must try and try again.

~ Lawson Purdy

In the past few women have tried and even fewer have succeeded.

~ Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

A mistake is not a failure but evidence that someone tried to do something.

~ Anonymous

Man must strive and in striving he must err.

~ Johann Von Goethe

The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.

~ Dr. Joyce Brothers

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

~ George Eliot

The sight of a cage is only frightening to the bird that has once been caught.

~ Rachel Field

Your success depends on your ability to dream and follow through on those dreams.

~ Jinger Heath

Keep trying. Take care of the small circle around you. When you have succeeded with them then move outwards one small step at a time.

~ Audrey Hepburn

It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes.

~ Flannery O'connor

There might be false starts and do-overs. You are entitled to experiment before you find your calling.

~ Jane Pauley

Life is the only real counselor. Wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.

~ Edith Wharton

The only failure which lacks dignity is the failure to try.

~ Malcolm F. Macneil

To know that one has never really tried - that is the only death.

~ Marie Dressier

We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we can do ... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.

~ Cybil Shepherd

If you're not failing you're not trying anything.

~ Woody Allen

If you play it safe in life you've decided that you don't want to grow anymore.

~ Shirley Hufstedler

Those who try and fail are much wiser than those who never try for fear of failure.

~ Andre Bustanoby

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 Clémenceau

To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and fall.

~ Robert Louis Stevenson

The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

~ Helen Keller

Inaction contrary to its reputation for being a refuge is neither safe nor comfortable.

~ Madeleine Kunin

They fail and they alone who have not striven.

~ Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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

~ Beverly Sills

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Failure is something made only by those who fail to dare not by those who dare to fail.

~ Louis Binstock

You don't always win your battles but it's good to know you fought.

~ Marjorie Holmes