Failure Quotes
4758 quotes by 2788 authors
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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
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Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.
— Lance Armstrong
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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
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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
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Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.
— Marcus Aurelius
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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
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Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all.
— Charles Babbage
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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
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It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
— Roger Babson
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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
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People think when you have a, quote, 'bank failure,' that that is the end of the bank. And it isn't necessarily.
— Michele Bachmann
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Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought.
— Joseph Barbera
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Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.
— Francis Bacon
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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
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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
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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
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I'm full of self-doubt. I doubt everything I do. Everything I do is a failure.
— John Banville
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Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.
— Edward Abbey
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The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates.
— Dave Barry
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