- Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.
- George Bernard Shaw on Failure
- Never permit failure to become a habit.
- William Frederick Book on Failure
- Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.
- Michael Korda on Failure
- Ninety-nine percent of pilots that go up never have engine failure, and the 1 percent that do usually land it. But if you're up in the air and something goes wrong, you pull that parachute, and the whole plane goes down slowly.
- Cory Lidle on Failure
- Nixon's grand mistake was his failure to understand that Americans are forgiving, and if he had admitted error early and apologized to the country, he would have escaped.
- Bob Woodward on Failure
- No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma - but we make out of them just what suits our purposes.
- Alfred Adler on Failure
- No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.
- Greil Marcus on Failure
- No man can be a failure if he thinks he's a success If he thinks he is a winner, then he is.
- Robert W. Service on Failure
- No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.
- Napoleon Hill on Failure
- No man is a failure who is enjoying life.
- William Feather on Failure
- No matter how vast, how total, the failure of man here on earth, the work of man will be resumed elsewhere. War leaders talk of resuming operations on this front and that, but man's front embraces the whole universe.
- Henry Miller on Failure
- None of us is guaranteed against failure or corruption of any kind witness what's going on in the world in this moment, the follies of human nature and the failures of human nature.
- Morris West on Failure
- Not failure, but low aim is sin.
- Benjamin E. Mays on Failure
- Not failure, but low aim, is crime.
- James Russell Lowell on Failure
- Nothing fails like failure.
- Margaret Drabble on Failure
- Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
- Calvin Coolidge on Failure
- Nothing succeeds, they say, like success. And certainly nothing fails like failure.
- Margaret Drabble on Failure
- Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.
- S. I. Hayakawa on Failure
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