Quotes about failure

"I have always felt that although someone may defeat me, and I strike out in a ball game, the pitcher on the particular day was the best player. But I know when I see him again, I'm going to be ready for his curve ball. Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it."

Aaron, Hank on failure
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"The typical human life seems to be quite unplanned, undirected, unlived, and unsavored. Only those who consciously think about the adventure of living as a matter of making choices among options, which they have found for themselves, ever establish real self-control and live their lives fully."

Albrecht, Karl on failure
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"They fail, and they alone, who have not striven."

Aldrich, Thomas B. on failure
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"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."

Allen, James on failure
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"You win only if you aren't afraid to lose."

Aoki, Rocky on failure
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"There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention."

Baldwin, James on failure
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"We are all failures -- at least, all the best of us are."

Barrie, Sir James M. on failure
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"If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything."

Bartkowski, Steve on failure
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"We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free. Tom Robbins Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln."

Barton, Bruce on failure
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"I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure."

Baxter, Anne on failure
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"It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes."

Baxter, Anne on failure
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"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better."

Beckett, Samuel on failure
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"There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success."

Beerbohm, Sir Max on failure
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"On this path effort never goes to waste, and there is no failure. Even a little effort toward spiritual awareness will protect you from the greatest fear."

Bhagavad Gita on failure
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"A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection."

Bloch, Arthur on failure   

"My downfall raises me to infinite heights."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on failure
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"No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward."

Bose, Amar Gopal on failure
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"Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure."

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart on failure
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"A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on failure
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"To win you've got to stay in the game."

Bristol, Claude M. on failure
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"You must think of failure and defeat as the springboards to new achievements or to the next level of accomplishment."

Brown, Les on failure
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"Failure is an event, never a person."

Brown, William D. on failure   

"Failure is the tuition you pay for success."

Brunell, Walter on failure
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"Failure does not count. If you accept this, you'll be successful. What causes most people to fail is that after one failure, they'll stop trying."

Burford, Frank on failure
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"Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses."

Carver, George Washington on failure
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"The only people who never fail are those who never try."

Chase, Ilka on failure
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"Honest error is to be pitied, not ridiculed."

Chesterfield, Lord on failure   

"You cannot explain failure any more than you can argue with success."

Clarke, J. Richard on failure   

"A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed -- I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself."

Clemenceau, Georges on failure
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"You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there."

Cole, Edwin Louis on failure
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"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

Confucius on failure
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"A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake."

Confucius on failure
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"You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to fall down flat/ But to lie there-that's a disgrace."

Cooke, E. V. on failure
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"To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself."

Crawford, Francis on failure   

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"Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement."

Dahlberg, Edward on failure   

"The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures."

Davy, Sir Humphrey on failure
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"You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you."

Disney, Walt on failure
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"Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success."

Dowden, Edward on failure   

"Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless."

Edison, Thomas A. on failure
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"I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward."

Edison, Thomas A. on failure
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