Quotes about failure

I’d come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Don’t get a big head when you win or get too down in the dumps when you lose. Keep things in perspective. Success is not forever and failure isn’t fatal.

Ken Blanchard

An absence of fear of the future and of veneration for the past. One who fears the future, who fears failure, limits his activities. Failure is only the opportunity more intelligently to begin again. There is no disgrace in honest failure; there is disgrace in fearing to fail.

Henry Ford

Failure is delay, but not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead-end street.

William Arthur Ward

My number one rule in business, and in life, is to enjoy what you do. Running a business involves long hours and hard decisions; if you don’t have the passion to keep you going, your business will more than likely fail. If you don’t enjoy what you are doing, then you shouldn’t be doing it.

Richard Branson

Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.

J. K. Rowling

Through some strange and powerful principle of mental chemistry which she has never divulged, nature wraps up in the impulse of strong desire, that something which recognizes no such word as impossible, and accepts no such reality as failure.

Napoleon Hill

Failure is not fatal. Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. It should challenge us to new heights of accomplishments, not pull us to new depths of despair. From honest failure can come valuable experience.

William Arthur Ward

It’s hard to understand failure when you’re going through it, but in the grand scheme of things it’s good to fall down – not because you’re drunk and not near stairs.

Ellen DeGeneres

Farmers and soldiers knew about the weather. Weather could be the great determiner between failure and success, the great test of one’s staying power.

David McCullough