Failing Forward Quotes

Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.

Winston Churchill

Success is generally the result of many failures.

H W Shaw

Fail often so you can succeed sooner.

Tom Kelley

Nobody plans to fail, they simply fail to plan.

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavour.

Truman Capote

Try and fail, but don’t fail to try.

Stephen Kaggwa

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

Henry Ford

Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

Zig Ziglar

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Napoleon Hill

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

Theodore Roosevelt

Every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success.

Napoleon Hill

We learn wisdom from failure much more than success. We often discover what we WILL do, by finding out what we WONT do.

Samuel Smiles

Many people dream of success. To me, success can only be achieved through repeated failure and introspection.

Soichiro Honda

If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.

Thomas Watson Sr

It’s not whether you get knocked down. It’s whether you get up again.

Vince Lombardi

I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.

Thomas Edison

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.

Dale Carnegie

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

Napoleon Hill

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 makes a mistake never made a discovery.

Samuel Smiles

In order to succeed you must fail so that you know what not to do the next time.

Anthony J D’Angelo

It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.

Roger Babson

So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because that’s where you will find success. On the far side of failure.

Thomas J Watson Sr

The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: I did not have time.

Franklin Field

The way to succeed is to double your failure rate.

People only fail when they either give up, don’t work hard enough, or don’t really want it.

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

George Washington Carver

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

George E Woodberry

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

Robert F Kennedy

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everyone would do it. But it’s not. It takes patience, it takes commitment, and it comes with plenty of failure along the way. The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won’t. It’s whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.

Barack Obama

You must have long-range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short-range failures.

Charles C Noble

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.

Samuel Beckett

Most people fail, not because of lack of desire, but because of lack of commitment.

Vince Lombardi

Lack of clarity is the primary reason for failure in business and personal life.

Brian Tracy

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

Napoleon Hill

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

Winston Churchill

Human beings are the only creatures who are allowed to fail. If an ant fails, it’s dead.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly; so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat.

Theodore Roosevelt