"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
— Thomas A. Edison

"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everyone."
— Bill Cosby

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."
— Winston S. Churchill

"It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all - in which case, you fail by default."
— J.K. Rowling

"Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever."
— Lance Armstrong (Every Second Counts)

"Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm."
— Winston S. Churchill

"My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them."
— Jack Kerouac

"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter, try again, fail again, fail better."
— Samuel Beckett

"It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed."
— Theodore Roosevelt

"Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it."
— Salvador Dali

"In fact, being--forgive me--rather cleverer than most men, my mistakes tend to be correspondingly huger."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince)

"To Err is human, forgive divine."
— Alexander Pope

"A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"Success, after all, loves a witness, but failure can't exist without one."
— Junot Díaz (The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao)

"Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement."
— C.S. Lewis

"Why did the Articles [of Confederation] fail so completely? Most historians believe the founding fathers spent a great deal of their first constitutional convention drafting the delaration of independence and only realized on July 3rd the Articles were also due."
— Jon Stewart (The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents America)

"Together, they would watch everything that was so carefully planned collapse, and they would smile at the beauty of destruction."
— Markus Zusak (The Book Thief)

"If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment."
— Henry David Thoreau

"Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence."
— George Eliot

"I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest."
— John Keats

"But instead of spending our lives running towards our dreams, we are often running away from a fear of failure or a fear of criticism."
— Eric Wright

""Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.""
— Denis Waitley

"Nostalgia is a necessary thing, I believe, and a way for all of us to find peace in that which we have accomplished, or even failed to accomplish. At the same time, if nostalgia precipitates actions to return to that fabled, rosy-painted time, particularly in one who believes his life to be a failure, then it is an empty thing, doomed to produce nothing but frustration and an even greater sense of failure."
— R.A. Salvatore (Streams of Silver)

"Failure? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks."
— Dottie Walters

"Always suffer delusions of grandeur with your art. What you are unable to face will never hurt you"
— Ginnetta Correli

"I assumed that everything would lead to complete failure, but I decided that didn't matter – that would be my life. "
— Jasper Johns

""I can stand anything but pain, failure and criticism!""
— Mark Cheney

"I dreamt -- marvellous error! -- that I had a beehive here inside my heart. And the golden bees were making white combs and sweet honey from my old failures."
— Antonio Machado

""Know that tomorrow will bring clarity where before was only fog. In the final summation, it is not other's expectations that slay us, but our over compensatory reactions in regard""
— C.B. Smith

"The greatest discovery any alien anthropologist could make about our culture is our overriding response to failure: If it didn't work last year, do it AGAIN this year (and if possible do it MORE)"
— Daniel Quinn (Beyond Civilization: Humanity's Next Great Adventure)

"Failure is an event not a person."
— Zig Ziglar

"Ideas do not have to be correct in order to be good; its only necessary that, if they do fail, they do so in an interesting way. "
— Robert Rosen

"An event in which you did not achieve your desired outcome (definition of failure)."
— Steven K. Scott

"Failures plagued me. Things I had omitted or ignored, neglected. What I should have given and hadn’t. I felt the biting pang of every unfulfillment."
— Richard Matheson (What Dreams May Come)

"His air of failure had nothing desperate about it; rather, it seemed to stem from an unresented realization that he was not cut out for success, and his duty was therefore to ensure only that he failed in a correct and acceptable fashion."
— Julian Barnes

"He possessed the logic of all good intentions and a knowledge of all the tricks of his trade, and yet he never succeeded at anything, because he believed too much in the impossible. Surprising? Why so? He was forever in the act of conceiving it!"
— Charles Baudelaire