Failure Quotes

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There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success. — Max Beerbohm
If I didn't care for fun and such, I'd probably amount to much, but I shall stay the way I am, because I do not… — Dorothy Parker
We may fail of our happiness, strive we ever so bravely; but we are less likely to fail if we measure with judgement our chances… — Agnes Repplier
To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall. — Robert Louis Stevenson
The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best. — George Eliot
How few things can a man measure with the tape of his understanding ; How many greater things might he be seeing in the meanwhile. — Henry David Thoreau
The man who meets with a failure attributes this failure rather to the ill will of another than to fate. — Friedrich Nietzsche
It is to escape the responsibility for failure that the weak so eagerly throw themselves into grandiose undertakings. — Eric Hoffer
Defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom, and above all futility. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Failure or success seems to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting with their star… — E. M. Forster
He's completely unspoiled by failure. — Noel Coward
Accordingly, France Had Voltaire, and his school of negative thinkers, and England (or rather Scotland) had the profoundest negative thinker on record, David Hume: a… — John Stuart Mill
If you're not a born-again Christian, you're a failure as a human being. — Jerry Falwell
From the failure of the humanist tradition to participate fully or to act decisively, civilizations may perhaps crumble or perish at the hands of barbarians.… — Louis Kronenberger
The challenge of education is not to prepare a person for success, but to prepare him for failure. — James Stockdale
Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It forever eclipses the world of demonic powers, as the sun does a… — Billy Graham
You can only really learn from failure ... To win, you need to fail, and fail hard. — Aisha Tyler
Everything depends on attitude. We are ambitious or lazy, enthusiastic or dull, loyal or undependable, according to our attitude. We get good grades or poor… — Sterling W Sill
Lack of loyalty is one of the major causes of failure in every walk of life — Napoleon Hill
Half of the failures in life come from pulling one's horse when he is leaping. — Thomas Hood

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