Quotes about failure

"Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results."

James, William on failure   

"There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self."

James, William on failure
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"The man who tries to do something and fails is infinitely better than he who tries to do nothing and succeeds."

Jones, Lloyd on failure
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"Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory."

Kaufman, Herbert on failure
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"Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true."

Keats, John on failure
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"There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object."

Keats, John on failure   

"I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest."

Keats, John on failure   

"Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly."

Kennedy, Robert F. on failure
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"Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail."

Kettering, Charles F. on failure   

"You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere."

Kettering, Charles F. on failure
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"We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work."

Kettering, Charles F. on failure   

"We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world."

Kettering, Charles F. on failure
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"Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets."

Korda, Michael on failure
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"No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on failure
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"It is for want of application, rather than of means that people fail,"

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on failure   

"People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure."

Lao-Tzu on failure
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"Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes."

Lawes, Lewis E. on failure   

"My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure."

Lincoln, Abraham on failure
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"Anyone seen on a bus after age thirty has been a failure in life."

Loelia, Duchess on failure   

"Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on failure   

"However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on failure
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"In great attempts it is glorious even to fail."

Longinus, Cassius on failure   

"Those who have failed miserably are often the first to see God's formula for success."

Lutzer, Erwin W. on failure   

"You can't be a winner and be afraid to lose."

Lynch, Charles on failure   

"Many a man never fails because he never tries."

Macewan, Norman on failure   

"Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough."

Mandino, Og on failure
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"When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves."

Mansfield, Katherine on failure   

"No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes."

Marcus, Greil on failure   

"Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory."

Marden, Orison Swett on failure   

"There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor; the unconquerable will. There is no failure for the man who gets up every time he falls, who rebounds like a rubber ball, who persists when everyone else gives up, who pushes on when everyone else turns back."

Marden, Orison Swett on failure   

"You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them."

Marden, Orison Swett on failure   

"Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them."

Mckinnon, Dan on failure   

"He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great."

Melville, Herman on failure
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"We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen."

Merton, Thomas on failure
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"He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid."

Miller, Arthur on failure   

"The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure."

Miller, Henry on failure
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"All honor to him who shall win the prize. The world has cried for a thousand years. But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears."

Miller, Joaquin on failure   

"Failure is not an option."

Movie, Apollo 13 on failure
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"Losing is a part of winning."

Munro, Dick on failure   

"Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles."

Nehru, Jawaharlal on failure