It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
Gore Vidal

There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.
Erich Fromm

We will not bend or fail until the blood of every last Jew from the youngest child to the oldest elder is spilt to redeem our land!
Yasser Arafat

A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords. There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both.
Benjamin Disraeli

You fail only if you stop writing.
Ray Bradbury

An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.
Charles Horton Cooley

Institutions - government, churches, industries, and the like - have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom; and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction.
Charles Horton Cooley

Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Every blunder behind us is giving a cheer for us, and only for those who were willing to fail are the dangers and splendors of life.
Carl Sandburg

I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.
Tom Hopkins

If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.
E. O. Wilson

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

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
Herman Melville

Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
Galileo Galilei

In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.
David Viscott

To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.
David Viscott

Failing to plan is planning to fail.
Alan Lakein

A great novel is concerned primarily with the interior lives of its characters as they respond to the inconvenient narratives that fate imposes on them. Movie adaptations of these monumental fictions often fail because they become mere exercises in interior decoration.
Richard Schickel

Unless you're willing to have a go, fail miserably, and have another go, success won't happen.
Phillip Adams

It is better to fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than to succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.
Peter Marshall