Failure is an event, never a person. – William D. Brown, Welcome Stress!
There is no failure except in no longer trying. – Elbert Hubbard
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
Try again. Fail again. Fail better. – Samuel Beckett
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 Chekhov
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
Whenever you leave behind failure you’re doing good. If you think everything you’ve done is great, you’re probably dumb. – Louis C.K.
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
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