Quotes about failure

You cannot learn very much about excellence from studying failure.

Marcus Buckingham

As often as you fail, get up and try again. God will never let you down, so long as you don’t let Him down, and so long as you make the effort.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Well, I think that there’s a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you’re likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line.

Richard Branson

Your ultimate success or failure will depend on your ability to ignore the worries of the world long enough to allow your investments to succeed.

Peter Lynch

Optimism can keep a fool from accepting failure.

Ernest Hemingway

Never hide behind busy work. It takes just as much energy to fail as it does to succeed.

Og Mandino

No man who enters upon the office to which I have succeeded can fail to recognize how every president of the United States has placed special reliance upon his faith in God.

John F. Kennedy

If I fail, I try again, and again, and again. If you fail, are you going to try again? The human spirit can handle much worse than we realize. It matters how you are going to finish. Are you going to finish strong?

Nick Vujicic

I believe in trusting men, not only once but twice – in giving a failure another chance.

James Cash Penney

The desire to fail on the way to reaching a bigger goal is the untold secret of success.

Seth Godin