Quotes about Failure

In any case you mustn't confuse a single failure with a final defeat.

I talk with the authority of failure.

If one can't be a great artist or a great soldier, the next best thing is to be a great criminal.

If you start your own thing, you can learn a lot really fast from doing things wrong.

I feel like I fell short in Rio.

He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.

If people are basically selfish -and they are- then asking them to work hard yet earn no more than their unproductive neighbor is asking more than they'll rarely give. But we already know that; communism has failed.

You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children's children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done.

when the ambitious man whose slogan is "Either Caesar or nothing" does not get to be Caesar, he despairs over it. But this also means something else: precisely because he did not get to be Caesar, he now cannot bear to be himself.

Continual failure is a road to success - if you have the strength to go on.

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.