Failure

Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.
- John Wooden

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
- Abraham Lincoln

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.
- Vincent van Gogh

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.
- George Burns

Maybe I'm lucky to be going so slowly, because I may be going in the wrong direction.
- Ashleigh Brilliant

The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
- Heywood Broun

I don't believe in failure. It's not failure if you enjoyed the process.
- Oprah Winfrey

There is no failure except in no longer trying.
- Elbert Hubbard

I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.
- Michael Jordan

If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.
- Mary Pickford

Keep in mind that our community is not composed of those who are already saints, but of those who are trying to become saints. Therefore let us be extremely patient with each other's faults and failures.
- Mother Teresa

Those who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try nothing and succeed.

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure, which is : Try to please everybody.
- Herbert B. Swope

For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.
- Mary Kay Ash

Not doing more than the average is what keeps the average down.
- William M. Winans

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
- John Dewey

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 consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
- Winston Churchill

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
- Thomas Alva Edison

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
- Thomas Alva Edison

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall -- think of it, always.
- Mohandas K. Gandhi

It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.
- Edward de Bono

It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.
- Samuel Smiles

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
- Oscar Wilde

There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
- Laurence J. Peter

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing.
- George Bernard Shaw