Failure Quotes
Nothing here is flagged as misattributed. Shakespeare, the judge Lord Ellenborough, Ben Carson and Frederick William Robertson lead, and the sourced lines are all older and drier than the usual motivational material. Wilde, in Lady Windermere’s Fan (1892), says experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes, and in 1894 that ambition is the last refuge of the failure. Burns’s Scots Musical Museum (1787) has the bleakest of the three: now all is done that men can do, and all is done in vain.
If you came for the line about failing and trying again, you will not find it here. Try the Success page.
To acknowledge the presence of fear is to give birth to failure.
Success is admirable in a king, but failure is compelling and usually better recorded.
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Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.