More quotations tagged with “failure”
You always pass failure on the way to success.
—Quentin Crisp
If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.
—Mike Ditka
Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.
—Mickey Rooney
Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.
—Mary Pickford
It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not lived at all. In which case, you've failed by default.
—John Keats