Failure Quotes

Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.

If you are afraid to fail, you will afraid to try, and it is far better to try and fail than refuse to try.

Character, courage, industry and perseverance are the four pillars on which the whole edifice of human life can be built and failure is a word unknown to me.

The best way is always the simplest. The attics of the world are cluttered up with complicated failures.

The most unfortunate thing that happens to a person who fears failure is that he limits himself by becoming afraid to try anything new.

As human beings we suffer from an innate tendency to jump to conclusions; to judge people too quickly and to pronounce them failures or heroes without due consideration of the actual facts and ideals of the period.

I want to risk hitting my head on the ceiling of my talent. I want to really test it out and say: O.K., you’re not that good. You just reached the level here. I don’t ever want to fail, but I want to risk failure every time out of the gate.

Please know that I am aware of the hazards. I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be a challenge to others.

You fail only if you stop writing.

The Lord waits for us to offer him our failings so that he can help us experience his mercy.