FAILURE QUOTES IV

quotations about failure

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

GEORGE ELIOT

Middlemarch

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The only guarantee for failure is to stop trying.

JOHN C. MAXWELL

Put Your Dream to the Test

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My parents always allowed me to fail when I was growing up, and I think that gave me a lot of strength going forward in my life. I lost high-school and junior-high elections when I ran for class president. I learned early in life to get up and dust yourself off and keep going.

ANDREA WONG

Newsweek, Oct. 15, 2007

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Failure is ever impending.

WALTER BAGEHOT

Estimates of Some Englishmen and Scotchmen

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Don't fear failure -- Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

BRUCE LEE

Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living

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One of the most important tasks of a manager is to eliminate his people’s excuses for failure.

ROBERT TOWNSEND

Further Up the Organization

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The fact that you have been knocked down is interesting, but the length of time you remained down is important.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought

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If a man has directed his course to great ends there is compensation even in ruin.

ARTHUR LYNCH

Moods of Life

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Better to fail in the pursuit of the noble, than to succeed in the search for the mean.

IVAN PANIN

Thoughts

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I would way rather not have middle ground. I would way rather fail in someone's eyes than be that sort of tepid ... that's the worst.

SCARLETT JOHANSSON

The Guardian, March 16, 2014

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I'm very proud of my failures. I'm perverse that way.

BARRY DILLER

Playboy, Jul. 1989

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There's no disgrace in failing, lad,
Though friends and foes deride;
In fact, a failure's not so bad
As never having tried.

EDGAR GUEST

"The Shame"

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All great success is preceded by failure.

BRIAN TRACY

The 100 Absolutely Unbreakable Laws of Business Success

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I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

ANTHONY ROBBINS

Awaken the Giant Within

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In times of success remember many have succeeded even better than thou: in times of failure, remember many have failed even worse than thou.

IVAN PANIN

Thoughts

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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

TRUMAN CAPOTE

Portraits and Observations

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My problem is that I don't get the same exhiliration from success as I get depression from failure.

STEVE MARTIN

Time Magazine, Aug. 24, 1987

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Every man is in some sort a failure to himself. No one ever reaches the heights to which he aspires.

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Table-Talk

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Man is certain of nothing but his ability to fail.

KEN KESEY

Sometimes a Great Notion

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Few things are impracticable in themselves; and 'tis for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail of success.

FRANÇOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Moral Maxims

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