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Failure Quotes and Quotations
A Failure in this Duty did once involve our Nation in all the Horrors of Rebellion and Civil War. ~Charles Inglis
A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience. ~Elbert Hubbard
A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection. ~Arthur Bloch
A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success. ~Elbert Hubbard
A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else. ~John Burroughs
A man may fall many times, but he won't be a failure until he says that someone pushed him. ~Elmer G. Letterman
A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life. ~Christopher Morley
Ambition is the last refuge of the failure. ~Oscar Wilde
And I went to New York and died; for 10 years I walked those pavements. I can't think of New York without feeling uncomfortable and feeling like a failure. ~Harvey Korman
Attempt something so impossible that unless God is in it, it's doomed to failure. ~John Haggai
Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times, you don't want to set him down as a failure till he's dead or loses his courage. ~George Horace Lorimer
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But I look at failure as education. In that respect, I am so well-educated. ~Kathy Ireland
But whatever my failure, I have this thing to remember - that I was a pioneer in my profession, just as my grandfathers were in theirs, in that I was the first man in this section to earn his living as a writer. ~Robert E. Howard
By virtually any measure, the record of the Republican Majority is an appalling failure. ~Sheila Jackson Lee
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. ~George Edward Woodberry
Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success. ~Dale Carnegie
Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out. ~Benjamin Franklin
Don't come home a failure. ~Ty Cobb
Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit. ~Napoleon Hill
Failure changes for the better, success for the worse. ~Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet. ~Robert Schuller
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Failure is a part of success. ~Hank Aaron
Failure is an event, never a person. ~William D. Brown, Welcome Stress!
Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes. ~Rick Pitino
Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities. ~Napolean Hill
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day. ~Jim Rohn
Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be. ~John Wooden
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently. ~Henry Ford
Failure is success if we learn from it. ~Malcolm Forbes
Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God. ~Charles Horton Cooley
Failure to prepare is preparing to fail. ~Mike Murdock
Failure Quotes and Quotations
Fear comes in two packages fear of failure, and sometimes, fear of success. ~Tom Kite
Feeling is the consciousness of the resulting conditions - of success, failure, equilibrium, compromise or balance, in this continuous rivalry of ideas. ~James M. Baldwin
He who has conquered doubt and fear has conquered failure.~James Lane Allen
His advice to me is basically to just love what you do and don't let the fear of failure stop you. ~Oliver Hudson
I believe only in art and failure. ~Jane Rule
I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying. ~Michael Jordan
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. ~Bill Cosby
I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success. ~J. Paul Getty
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. ~Thomas Edison
I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate. ~George Burns
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I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win. ~Tom Hopkins
I think you can learn as much from success as you can from failure. ~Corey Hart
If you try to do your best there is no failure. ~Mike Farrell
In a world flagrant with the failures of civilization, what is there particularly immortal about our own? ~G.K. Chesterton
In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. ~Bill Cosby
It is a mistake to suppose that people succeed through success; they often succeed through failures. ~Author Unknown
It was an interesting question as to whether the BBC had a future in the digital world, and what form of market failure could justify the licence fee system. ~Gavyn Davies
It's a failure of national vision when you regard children as weapons, and talents as materials you can mine, assay, and fabricate for profit and defense. ~John Hersey
It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure. ~ Bill Gates
It's how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success. ~Charlotte Whitton
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I've probably earned the right to screw up a few times. I don't want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about. ~Emma Watson
Just once it might be instructive to pretend you're accepting an award for failure, just to see who you would thank. ~Robert Brault
Learning starts with failure; the first failure is the beginning of education. ~John Hersey
Most of the work performed by a development engineer results in failure. ~Koichi Tanaka
Most people think of success and failure as opposites, but they both are products of the same process. ~Roger von Oech
My big philosophy is: Try and work with good people, because the process is your life. That's going to be really, really hard. I'm glad I learned the lesson, 'Failure is OK.' ~Dana Fox
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure. ~Abraham Lincoln
Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald
No man is a failure who is enjoying life. ~William Feather
Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure. ~Kenneth Boudling
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Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure. ~S. I. Hayakawa
One fails forward toward success. ~Charles F. Kettering
One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake. ~Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
One of the biggest problems with the modern feminist movement is its failure to bring men along with us. ~Tammy Bruce
Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
Over the next four years, we will be bold. We will be willing to experiment. We will not fear failure. ~Matt Blunt
Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure. ~Tommy Lasorda
Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach. ~Roger von Oech
Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it. ~Thomas Sowell
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery. ~Winston Churchill
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Something is wanting, and something must be done, or we shall be involved in all the horror of failure, and civil war without a prospect of its termination. ~Henry Knox
Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period. ~Felicity Kendal
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. ~Winston Churchill
Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure. ~Confucius
Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral. ~Rosalind Russell
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. ~Winston Churchill
The failure of women to have reached positions of leadership has been due in large part to social and professional discrimination. ~Rosalyn S. Yalow
The failure to dissect the cause of war leaves us open for the next installment. ~Chris Hedges
The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater the secret failure. ~Ben Okri
The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed. ~Lloyd Jones
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The more control you have over your life, the more responsible you feel for your own success - or failure. ~Arthur C. Brooks
The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan. ~Alan Price
The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows. ~Buddha
The only time you don't fail is the last time you try anything - and it works. ~William Strong
The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape. ~Alice James
The time I had waited probably made the difference between success and failure. ~Anna Neagle
There are defeats more triumphant than victories. ~Michel de Montaigne
There is always time for failure. ~John Mortimer
There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success. ~Max Beerbohm
There is no failure except in no longer trying. ~Elbert Hubbard
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There is no failure. Only feedback. ~Robert Allen
There is no such thing as failure. There are only results. ~Tony Robbins
There is only one real failure in life that is possible, and that is, not to be true to the best one knows. ~Frederic William Farrar
There's no such thing as failure - just waiting for success. ~John Osborne
They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward. ~Thomas Edison
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Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness. ~Oprah Winfrey
Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another. ~Napoleon Hill
This attempt to isolate cell constituents might have been a failure if they had been destroyed by the relative brutality of the technique employed. But this did not happen. ~Albert Claude
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 Lane Allen
To me, all war is failure for humanity, though it often is a bounty for commerce. ~Mark Edwards
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Try again. Fail again. Fail better. ~Samuel Beckett
Unless we practice conservation, those who come after us will have to pay the price of misery, degradation, and failure for the progress and prosperity of our day. ~Gifford Pinchot
We decided to try in vitro, because both Peter and I felt we couldn't handle another failure. When I miscarried after that, we had to come to terms with the possibility that this wasn't meant to be. ~Christie Brinkley
We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve. ~John B. S. Haldane
You always pass failure on your way to success. ~Mickey Rooney
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You cannot learn anything from success, you only learn from failure. ~Jim Dale
You can't have any successes unless you can accept failure. ~George Cukor
You have to look at the history of the Middle East in particular. It has been one of failure and frustration, of feudalism and tribalism. ~Alexander Haig
You must not demand the failure of your peers, because the more good things that are around in film, in television, in theater - why the better it is for all of us. ~Jerome Lawrence
You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. This is done by making an affirmation which "clicks." ~Florence Scovel Shinn
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