Try again. Fail again. Fail better. ~Samuel Beckett


Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet. ~Robert Schuller


One fails forward toward success. ~Charles F. Kettering


One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake. ~Anton Pavlovich Chekhov


A man may fall many times, but he won't be a failure until he says that someone pushed him. ~Elmer G. Letterman


Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald


In a world flagrant with the failures of civilization, what is there particularly immortal about our own? ~G.K. Chesterton


They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward. ~Thomas Edison


There are defeats more triumphant than victories. ~Michel de Montaigne


Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God. ~Charles Horton Cooley


Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, "I have failed three times," and what happens when he says, "I am a failure." ~S.I. Hayakawa


A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience. ~Elbert Hubbard


No man is a failure who is enjoying life. ~William Feather


Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently. ~Henry Ford


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. ~George Horace Lorimer


You can't have any successes unless you can accept failure. ~George Cukor


There is no failure. Only feedback. ~Robert Allen


Failure changes for the better, success for the worse. ~Lucius Annaeus Seneca


There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success. ~Max Beerbohm, Mainly on the Air, 1946


You always pass failure on your way to success. ~Mickey Rooney


Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure. ~Kenneth Boudling