Some Inspiring Quotes on Failure

• There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought. -  Laurence J. Peter
• Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn’t work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach.- Roger Von Oech
• Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm. – Winston Churchill
• Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. – Winston Churchill
• I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. - Thomas Alva Edison
• We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery. - Samuel Smiles
• It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done. – Samuel Smiles
• Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. – Robert F. Kennedy
• Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat. – Ralph Ellison
• But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it’s better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you’re fighting for. – Paulo Coelho
• Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to er – Mohandas K. Gandhi
• Life’s real failure is when you do not realize how close you were to success when you gave up.
• Success builds character, failure reveals it - Dave Checkett
• Try and fail, but don’t fail to try.  – Stephen Kaggwa
• The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure. - Sven Goran Eriksson
• I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed. – Michael Jordan
• Failure is not falling down but refusing to get up.  – Chinese Proverbs
• A man may fall many times, but he won’t be a failure until he says that someone pushed him. – Elmer G. Letterman
• To be wrong is nothing unless you continue to remember it – Confucius
• If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative.  - Woody Allen
• A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing. – George Bernard Shaw
• Last but not least – If You‘ve Never Failed, You‘ve Never Lived