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


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


There is no failure. Only feedback. ~Robert Allen


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


Our business in life is not to succeed; but to continue to fail in good spirits. ~Robert Louis Stevenson


It is a mistake to suppose that people succeed through success; they often succeed through failures. ~Author Unknown


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


Failure is an event; never a person. ~William D. Brown; Welcome Stress!


"Supposing you have tried and failed again and again. 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"


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


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


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


The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed. ~Lloyd Jones


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


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


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


The only time you don't fail is the last time you try anything - and it works. ~William Strong


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


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


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


I don't know the key to success; but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. ~Bill Cosby


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


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


"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"


I have not failed. I've just found 10;000 ways that won't work. ~Thomas Edison


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


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


One fails forward toward success. ~Charles F. Kettering


If you're doing your best; you won't have any time to worry about failure. ~Quoted in P.S. I Love You; compiled by H. Jackson Brown;?Jr.


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


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