Failure Quotes

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Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength. — Karen Armstrong
Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever. — Lance Armstrong
For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour. — Mary Kay Ash
If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the good things that… — Arthur Ashe
Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so. — Marcus Aurelius
Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight. — Marcus Aurelius
Movies are not novels, and that's why, when filmmakers try to adapt novels, particularly long or complex novels, the result is almost always failure. It… — Paul Auster
Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all. — Charles Babbage
Some people will go to the opening of an envelope. They live their lives in the public eye and get off on it, they need… — Jensen Ackles
It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final. — Roger Babson
The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not causes. Nothing more than the… — Edward Bach
People think when you have a, quote, 'bank failure,' that that is the end of the bank. And it isn't necessarily. — Michele Bachmann
Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought. — Joseph Barbera
Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion. — Francis Bacon
I have never described the time I was in Doctor Who as anything except a kind of ecstatic success, but all the rest has been… — Tom Baker
The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did… — James A. Baldwin
I hate failure and that divorce was a Number One failure in my eyes. It was the worst period of my life. Neither Desi nor… — Lucille Ball
I'm full of self-doubt. I doubt everything I do. Everything I do is a failure. — John Banville
Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination. — Edward Abbey
The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates. — Dave Barry

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