All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.
Og Mandino

Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success.
Og Mandino

My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.
Harry S. Truman

My reputation grows with every failure.
George Bernard Shaw

Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.
George Bernard Shaw

Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.
Charlie Chaplin

We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
Rudyard Kipling

For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.
Mary Kay Ash

Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.
Chanakya

The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.
Edward Abbey

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
William Faulkner

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

Don't be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.
Lily Tomlin

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
John Dewey

They who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure.
James Allen

To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.
James Allen

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