Quotations on Failure

A failure is a man who has blundered but is not able to cash in the experience.

~ Elbert Hubbard

Ambition is the last refuge of failure.

~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life we get nothing save by effort.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

Not failure, but low aim, is crime.

~ James Russell Lowell

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

~ Thomas A. Edison

A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

~ John Burroughs

A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed - I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.

~ Georges Clemenceau

He's no failure. He's not dead yet.

~ W.L. George