Failure Quotes

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Always let your subordinates know that the honor will be all theirs if they succeed and the blame will be yours if they fail. — Abraham Lincoln
The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure. — B. C. Forbes
It is the accumulative weight of our disciplines and our judgments that leads us to either fortune or failure. — Jim Rohn
With every effort, I learned a lot. With every mistake and failure, not only mine, but of those around me, I learned what not to… — Mark Cuban
Success without fulfillment is failure. — Tony Robbins
Any policy is a success by sufficiently low standards and a failure by sufficiently high standards. — Thomas Sowell
Every great improvement has come after repeated failures. Virtually nothing comes out right the first time. Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road… — Charles Kettering
It has been just so in all my inventions. The first step is an intuition-and comes with a burst, then difficulties arise. This thing that… — Thomas A. Edison
The search for extra-terrestrial life is a failure until that moment when it suddenly becomes a success. — Seth Shostak
The failure of one thing is repaired by the success of another. — Thomas Jefferson
Please don't nag yourself with thoughts of failure. Do not set goals far beyond your capacity to achieve. Simply do what you can do, in… — Gordon B. Hinckley
Don't have any meetings about your web strategy. Just do stuff. First you have to fail, then you can improve. — Seth Godin
Climate change represents the greatest and widest-ranging market failure ever seen — Nicholas Stern
In truth, the only difference between those who have failed and those who have succeeded lies in the difference of their habits. Good habits are… — Og Mandino
The failure in Ohio to have adequate voting capacity for the people who were registered and eligible to vote was an absolute denial of their… — Carol Moseley Braun
The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism. — Earl Warren
One great cause of failure of young men in business is the lack of concentration. — Andrew Carnegie
Goods and possessions are no gain in his eyes. He stays far from wealth and honor. Long life is no ground for joy, nor early… — Zhuangzi
Human progress planned as alternatives (to God's plan) introduce in justice, evil and violence rising against the divine plan of justice and salvation. And despite… — Pope John Paul II
Failure cannot cope with persistence. — Napoleon Hill

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