Failure Quotations
Authors that have more than 2 quotes:
Thomas Alva Edison
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| It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way. |
| - Aristotle |
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| It is a mistake to suppose that people succeed through success; they often succeed through failures. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| Try again. Fail again. Fail better. |
| - Samuel Beckett |
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| There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success. |
| - Max Beerbohm |
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| If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure. |
| - H. Jackson Jr. Brown |
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| One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake. |
| - Anton Chekhov |
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| In a world flagrant with the failures of civilization, what is there particularly immortal about our own? |
| - Gilbert Keith Chesterton |
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| Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. |
| - Sir Winston Churchill |
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| Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God. |
| - Charles Cooley |
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| I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. |
| - Bill Cosby |
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| If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style. |
| - Quentin Crisp |
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| Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways. |
| - Samuel McChord Crothers |
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| Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. |
| - Thomas Alva Edison |
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| I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. |
| - Thomas Alva Edison |
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| They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward. |
| - Thomas Alva Edison |
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| No man is a failure who is enjoying life. |
| - William Feather |
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| Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat. |
| - F. Scott Fitzgerald |
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| Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently. |
| - Henry Ford |
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| Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent. |
| - Carl G. Jung |
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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 |
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| A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience. |
| - Elbert Hubbard |
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| There is no failure except in no longer trying. |
| - Elbert Hubbard |
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| Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid. |
| - John Keats |
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| One fails forward toward success. |
| - Charles F. Kettering |
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| A man may fall many times, but he won't be a failure until he says that someone pushed him. |
| - Elmer G. Letterman |
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| 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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| There are defeats more triumphant than victories. |
| - Michel de Montaigne |
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| Supposing you have tried and failed again and again. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down. |
| - Mary Pickford |
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| This thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down. |
| - Mary Pickford |
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| If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure. |
| - Dan Quayle |
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| You always pass failure on the way to success. |
| - Mickey Rooney |
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| Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet. |
| - Robert H. Schuller |
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| Failure changes for the better, success for the worse. |
| - Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
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| Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes. |
| - George Soros |
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| Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits. |
| - Robert Louis Stevenson |
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| Men are born to succeed, not fail. |
| - Henry David Thoreau |
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| It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail. |
| - Gore Vidal |
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