Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.-Calvin Coolidge
But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.-Ernest Hemingway
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
It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.-Bill Gates
Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something.-Morihei Ueshiba
Every failure is a step to success. – William Whewell
Success is not built on success. It’s built on failure. It’s built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe.-Sumner Redstone
Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.-Andy Grove
I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.-Thomas A. Edison
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.-Truman Capote
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.-Ralph Waldo Emerson
You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give.-E. O. Wilson
Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.-Napoleon Hill
An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.-Edwin Land
Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.-Richard Branson
The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success. – Paramahansa Yogananda
It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.-J. K. Rowling
A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.-John Burroughs
Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.-Colin Powell
You always pass failure on your way to success.-Mickey Rooney
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.-James Joyce
I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.-Michael Jordan
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.-Winston Churchill
Failure is always an option.-Adam Savage
Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.-Wilma Rudolph
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure… than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.-Theodore Roosevelt
Remember that failure is an event, not a person. – Zig Ziglar
It’s best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.-Anne Baxter
Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.-Thomas A. Edison
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.-Denis Waitley
If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.-Quentin Crisp
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.-Abraham Lincoln
If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative.Woody Allen
Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.-Oscar Wilde
Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.-Swami Sivananda
Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.-Coco Chanel
You make mistakes. Mistakes don’t make you. – Maxwell Maltz
Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.-Orison Swett Marden
Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.-John Wooden
Failure is impossible.-Susan B. Anthony
Failure is a word unknown to me.-Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.-C. S. Lewis
Success comes when people act together; failure tends to happen alone.-Deepak Chopra
My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.-Jack Kerouac
The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.-Joyce Brothers
There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.-Tony Robbins
If you learn from defeat, you haven’t really lost. – Zig Ziglar
There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.-Michel de Montaigne
The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.-Lyndon B. Johnson
Success isn’t permanent and failure isn’t fatal.-Mike Ditka
I don’t believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.-Oprah Winfrey
Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it.-Mia Hamm
The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.-Richard Brinsley Sheridan
You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.-Zig Ziglar
Show me a good and gracious loser and I’ll show you a failure.-Knute Rockne
Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.-Douglas MacArthur
Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets. – Michael Korda
Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.-Henry Ward Beecher
Losing is no disgrace if you’ve given your best.-Jim Palmer
Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.-Benjamin Franklin