Failure Quotes

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The men who have done big things are those who were not afraid to attempt big things, who were not afraid to risk failure in… — B. C. Forbes
The tragedy of life is not found in failure but complacency. Not in you doing too much, but doing too little. Not in you living… — Benjamin E. Mays
Failure isn't failing at the project at hand. Failure is giving up on yourself. — Donna de Varona
Failure is blindness to the strategic element in events; success is readiness for instant action when the opportune moment arrives. — Newell Dwight Hillis
Hard work does not guarantee success, but no work guarantees failure. — Cesc Fabregas
For many businesses, the fear behind their social media reluctance isn't just fear of failure but of blame and accountability - both individual and collective. — Jay Baer
There is no one against us in this world but ourselves. You are against you. A failure to love, embrace, and accept yourself based on… — Unknown Author
In God's economy, nothing is wasted. Through failure, we learn a lesson in humility which is probably needed, painful though it is. — Bill W.
No man or woman is uniformly successful... we must all expect a rather high percentage of failure in the things we attempt. — Barnaby Keeney
Disappointment often focuses on the failure of our own agenda rather than on God's long-term purposes for us, which may use stress and struggle as… — Luci Shaw
What does so-called success or failure matter if only you have succeeded in doing the thing you set out to do. The DOING is all… — Eva Le Gallienne
You cannot explain failure any more than you can argue with success. — J. Richard Clarke
A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable. — Leslie Lamport
Government failure is always used as an excuse for government expansion. Government thrives on crisis and incompetence. — Jim Babka
People often avoid making decisions out of fear of making a mistake. Actually the failure to make decisions is one of life's biggest mistakes. — Noah Weinberg
Whoever, in the pursuit of science, seeks after immediate practical utility, may generally rest assured that he will seek in vain. — Hermann von Helmholtz
All life is linked together in such a way that no part of the chain is unimportant. Frequently, upon the action of some of these… — Unknown Author
You accept failure as a possible outcome of some of the experiments. If you don't get failures, you're not pushing hard enough on the objectives. — John Poindexter
Science is experimental, moving forward step-by-step, making trial and learning through success and failure. Is not this also the way of religion, and especially of… — William Henry Bragg
The next time you face a challenge, remember that the cost of success is far cheaper than the price of failure. — Tsem Tulku

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