Quotes

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
-Denis Waitley

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners encountered heart breaking obstacles before they triumphed. They finally won by their defeats.
-B. C. Forbes

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

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

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

Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
-Denis Waitley

Defeat doesn't finish a man--quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.
-Richard M. Nixon

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

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 you can't make a mistake, you can't make anything.
-Marva Collins

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
-Napoleon Hill

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game, one foot from a winning touchdown.
-Ross Perot

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

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

Because a fellow has failed once or twice, or a dozen times, you don't want to set him down as a failure till he's dead or loses his courage--and that's the same thing.
-George Lorimer

The wisest person is not the one who has the fewest failures but the one who turns failures to best account.
-Richard R. Grant

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

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

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