Quotes about failure
95 quotes from 79 people
Felix Adler1851–1933Life and Destiny (1913)Inside of a ring or out, ain’t nothing wrong with going down. It’s staying down that’s wrong.
To err is human. To blame it on somebody else is even more human.
Chadwick Boseman1976–2020Howard University Commencement Speech (2018)- Chadwick Boseman1976–2020Howard University Commencement Speech (2018)
Robert Browning1812–1889Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Pearl S. Buck1892–1973What America Means to Me (1943), Ch. 10In the lexicon of youth, which fate reserves
For a bright manhood, there is no such word
As “fail”.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton1803–1873Richelieu (1839)
Robert Burns1759–1796Johnson’s The Scots Musical Museum (1787–1796)
Lord Byron1788–1824Marino Faliero, Act II, Scene 2, reported in Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Jimmy Carrborn 1972Will Hodgkinson (16 December 2004) “Comedy’s overgrown schoolboy”, The Irish Times.
