Failure Quotes

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Success and failure are greatly overrated. But failure gives you a whole lot more to talk about. — Hildegard Knef
Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral. — Rosalind Russell
My greatest fear is not your failure, but your success. — Howard G. Hendricks
I was once young and now I am old, but not once have I been witness to God's failure to supply my need when first… — William Carey
Action without planning is the cause of all failure. Action with planning is the cause of all success. — Brian Tracy
The tendency to follow the path of least resistance guarantees failure in life. — Brian Tracy
Despair, when not the response to absolute physical and moral defeat is, like war, the failure of imagination. — Adrienne Rich
It is a rare person who can pierce the veil between ordinarly life, consumed with matters of physical survival, and pursuit of the empowered path… — Caroline Myss
If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we… — Tony Robbins
Let it never be said of this generation of Americans that we became so obsessed with failure that we refused to take risks that could… — Ronald Reagan
But in the West today, we see a free world that has achieved a level of prosperity and well-being unprecedented in all human history. In… — Ronald Reagan
Studies by Medical Corps psychiatrists of combat fatigue cases... found that fear of killing, rather than fear of being killed, was the most common cause… — Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall
If you want to be rich, never give up. People tend to give up. If you have persistence, you will come out ahead of most… — Jordan Belfort
Nothing bad is going to happen to us. If we get fired, it's not failure; its a midlife vocational reassessment. — P.J. O'Rourke
Insurrection. An unsuccessful revolution; disaffection's failure to substitute misrule for bad government. — Ambrose Bierce
Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough. — Elon Musk
All the world loves a good loser. — Kin Hubbard
The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that… — Soren Kierkegaard
The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human… — Henry Ward Beecher
The disesteem into which moralists have fallen is due at bottom to their failure to see that in an age like this one the function… — Walter Lippmann

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