Failure Quotes · Page 124

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

— Anonymous

If you fail to practice your art, it will soon disappear.

— Mrthrill

I've learned to question success a lot more than failure.

— Kat Cole

I have not won several times, but not defeated even once.

— Tasneem Hameed

I'm interested in when language fails, when it is opaque.

— Glenn Ligon

“Every story of conversion is a story of blessed defeat.”

— C.S. Lewis

The greatest general is he who makes the fewest mistakes.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

I made mistakes off the track and have learned from them.

— Ralf Schumacher

Unwillingness to risk failure is always there, but it gets harder when you feel you have more to lose.

— Demi Moore

How would you like a job where when you made a mistake, a big red light goes on and 18,000 people boo?

— Jacques Plante

It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

— Donald Rumsfeld

It's better to have tried and failed than to live life wondering what would've happened if I had tried

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

Any design, whether its for a ship or an airplane, must be done in anticipation of potential failures.

— Henry Petroski

“We didn’t cause the apocalypse…” “But we were too dumb to see it,” she snaps. “That was our mistake.”

— Caroline George

I often make the mistake of thinking that something that is obvious to me is obvious to everyone else.

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“Be strong so nobody defeats you, noble so nobody humiliates you, and yourself so nobody forgets you.”

— Paulo Cohleo

Parents always make their worst mistakes with their oldest children. That's when parents know the least and care the most, so they're…

— Orson Scott Card

There's a fine line between eccentrics and geniuses. If you're a little ahead of your time, you're an eccentric, and if you're…

— Thomas Watson, Jr

Those who hope to avoid all failure and misfortune are trying to live in a fairyland; wise people realistically accept failures as…

— Wilferd Peterson

I'm afraid of not being as good as I could possibly be. I'm not afraid to go through setbacks to achieve the…

— Matt Mitrione

“I pray you, then, receive my little book in all charity, studying my words with me, forgiving mistake and foible for sake…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

Recently, I was asked if I was going to fire an employee who made a mistake that cost the company $600,000. No,…

— Thomas J. Watson

The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is…

— Michael Korda

I''m Selfish..Impatience and a little Insecure...i make mistakes and I am out of control and in times hard to handle...but if u…

— Anonymous

Fear is the ultimate cause of failure and disappointment.

— Emmet Fox

I wish if Microsoft office could auto correct my mistakes

— Kand3n

If you work in a certain manner, you don't make mistakes.

— Fabio Cannavaro

We will not have failure - only success and new learning.

— Queen Victoria

“Failure is not falling down but refusing to get up,” as”

— Ainissa Ramirez

Eliminate the cause of a mistake. Don't just clean it up.

— J. Willard Marriott

When all else fails, go back to bed. Repeat as necessary.

— Rock Cowles

There's nothing like work to take your mind off setbacks.

— Aditya Roy Kapur

Mr. Lincoln is already defeated. He cannot be re-elected.

— Horace Greeley

Young enough to make mistakes, old enough to know better.

— Anonymous

Engineering is achieving function while avoiding failure.

— Henry Petroski

“But we’re assassins: when we make mistakes, people live”

— Steven Brust

Hollywood only recognizes big successes and big failures.

— Joe Don Baker

Everyone has his burden. What counts is how you carry it.

— Merle Miller

It's easy to stop making mistakes. Just stop having ideas

— Nateman

“the failure of hope has a name: it is called suffering.”

— Steven Erikson