Failure Quotes

"If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. 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

"No one is perfect – that’s why pencils have erasers."

- Wolfgang Riebe

"I’ve missed more than 9000 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 a part of life. From time to time you will fail at something. That does not mean that you should give up and never be happy."

- Clement Getate

"Success is 99 percent failure."

- Soichiro Honda

""Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.""

- Thomas A. Edison

""The only guarantee for failure is to stop trying.""

- John C. Maxwell

""Failure is success in abeyance; but only for those who persevere.""

- Ashok Kallarakkal

"I guess you were right, Linus. I shouldn't have picked this little tree. Everything I do turns into a disaster. I guess I really don't know what Christmas is all about."

- Charlie Brown

"Mistakes are always forgivable if one has the courage to admit them."

- Bruce Lee

"Don't think of it as failure. Think of it as time-released success."

- Robert Orben

"You fail all the time, but you aren’t a failure until you start blaming someone else."

- Bum Phillips

"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

"One bad move nullifies forty good ones."

- Bernhard Horwitz

"Chess is a fairy tale of 1001 blunders."

- Savielly Tartakower

"Winning isn’t everything... but losing is nothing"

- Mednis

"One bad move nullifies forty good ones"

- Horowitz

"The winner of the game is the player who makes the next-to-last mistake"

- Savielly Tartakower

"I prefer to lose a really good game than to win a bad one"

- David Levy

"There is only one thing Fischer does in Chess without pleasure: to lose!"

- Boris Spassky

"A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying."

- B. F. Skinner

"Failure is the only opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently."

- Henry Ford

"Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure."

- George Edward Woodberry

"Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm."

- Winston Churchill

"Failure isn’t the end of the road. It’s a big red flag saying to you ‘Wrong way. Turn around.'"

- Oprah Winfrey

"Failure it appears is not the regret that haunts most people; it is the choice not to risk failure at all."

- Dr. John Izzo

"Success is Walking from Failure to Failure"

- Winston Churchill

"One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat."

- Anonymous

"There’s no shame in failing. The only shame is not giving things your best shot."

"Whenever you feel like a failure, just remember that even Coca Cola only sold 25 bottles their first year."