Famous Failure Quotes

• Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive.
  —Scott Adams, creator of the Dilbert comic strip

• The war in Vietnam is going very well and will succeed.
  —Robert McNamara, U.S. Secretary of Defense, January 1963

• I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.
  —Herbert Bayard Swope

• Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
  —Winston S. Churchill

• I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
  —Thomas A. Edison