Failure Quotes

Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
- Marilyn vos Savant

People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.
- Lao-Tzu

I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.
- Tom Hopkins

If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.
- Robert H. Schuller

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

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

No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.
- Amar Gopal Bose

If you are not big enough to lose, you are not big enough to win.
- Walter Reuther

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
- Colin Powell