Failure is a disappointment but not defeat.

— Jeanne Robertson, U.S. humorist, born 1943

Failure is not in losing, but in no longer believing that winning is worthwhile.

— Unknown source

Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.

— Daniel Webster, U.S. politician who served as Secretary of State, 1782-1852

People fail forward to success.

— Mary Kay Ash, U.S. businesswoman and founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics, 1918-2001

We fail more often by timidity than by over-daring.

— David Grayson, U.S. journalist and historian, 1870-1946

Failure is something made only by those who fail to dare, not by those who dare to fail.

— Louis Binstock, U.S. Rabbi, 1895-1974

Failure is not sweet, but it need not be bitter.

— Unknown source

Failure is sometimes a matter of not trying rather than not succeeding.

— Sarah Blakely, U.S. billionaire businesswoman, Born 1971

Failure is often the fire that forges the steel.

— Paul Tudor Jones, financier and philanthropist, Born 1954

Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.

— Charles F. Kettering, U.S. inventor, engineer, businessman, the holder of 186 patents, and founder of the Kettering Foundation for research, 1876-1958

The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

— Yogananda, Indian yogi and guru who introduced millions of westerners to the teaching of meditation and Kriya Yoga, 1893-1952

Try again, fail again. Fail better.

— Samuel Butler, English author, 1835-1902

This thing that we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down.

— Mary Pickford, Canadian-American film actress and producer, 1892-1979
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