Failure Quotes

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Military cemeteries in every corner of the world are silent testimony to the failure of national leaders to sanctify human life. — Yitzhak Rabin
It could be that our faithlessness is a cowering cowardice born of our very smallness, a massive failure of imagination... If we were to judge… — Annie Dillard
You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and… — Arthur L. Williams, Jr.
With the ambitious, the failure of one expedient is the suggestion of another; but with the irresolute, defeat usually occasions abandonment of purpose. — Norm MacDonald
Failure has no friends. — John F. Kennedy
Success, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want. The person not reaching the top is no less a success… — Fran Tarkenton
You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure. — Henry David Thoreau
No mistake or failure is as bad as to stop and not try again. — John Wanamaker
Failure is a trickster with a keen sense of irony and cunning. It takes great delight in tripping one when success is almost within reach. — Napoleon Hill
The real thing is that you are suffering from your expectations. When they are not fulfilled - and they are never going to be fulfilled… — Rajneesh
If you have a level of expectation in your life that you have to be a quote-unquote star, whatever that means, you might be setting… — Bryan Cranston
I did what my conscience told me to do, and you can't fail if you do that. — Anita Hill
No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared… — Greil Marcus
The leaders I met, whatever walk of life they were from, whatever institutions they were presiding over, always referred back to the same failure something… — Warren G. Bennis
Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blossom in time, and bear fruit throughout eternity. — Frances Harper
One does not think during creative work, any more than one thinks when driving a car. But one has a background of years - learning,… — Edward Weston
There is a deep, abiding, unshakable satisfaction in a life of complete failure. — Edward Abbey
Anyone over the age of thirty catching a bus can consider himself a failure. — Zadie Smith
I have often thought that if heaven had given me choice of my position and calling, it should have been on a rich spot of… — Thomas Jefferson
Man's rise or fall, success or failure, happiness or unhappiness depends on his attitude ... a man's attitude will create the situation he imagines. — James Lane Allen

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