Failure Quotes

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Our failure to segregate morons who are increasing and multiplying . . . demonstrates our foolhardy and extravagant sentimentalism, — Margaret Sanger
The utter failure came at the Crucifixion in the tragic words, 'My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?' If you want to understand… — Carl Jung
When a child makes a mistake or fails to accomplish a certain goal, we must avoid any word or action which indicates that we consider… — Rudolf Dreikurs
Self-belief does not necessarily ensure success, but self-disbelief assuredly spawns failure. — Albert Bandura
We are more heavily invested in the theories of failure than we are in the theories of success. — Albert Bandura
The emotionally sound person should be able to take risks, to ask himself what he really would like to do in life, and then to… — Albert Ellis
Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the… — William James
The failure of the reformation to capture France had left for the Frenchmen no half-way house between infallibility and infidelity; and while the intellect of… — Will Durant
If we do not respect ourselves, we are on the one hand forced to despise those who have so few resources as to consort with… — Joan Didion
Trying is the first step toward failure. — Homer
The particular aspect of history which both attracts and benefits its readers is the examination of causes and the capacity, which is the reward of… — Polybius
The fact that The Bridge contains folk lore and other material suitable to the epic form need not therefore prove its failure as a long… — Hart Crane
Failure to love is almost like murder. — Boris Pasternak
In the political environment that exists today, the opposition research of the Obama campaign is looking for anything they can use to distract from the… — Mitt Romney
Yeah, after making Pablo Honey, we started experimenting with cloning myself in order to double the band's creative energy. However, the experiment was a failure,… — Thom Yorke
To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare fail, that failure is his world and the shrink from desertion, art and craft,… — Samuel Beckett
The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman. It is only when we know what were the conditions of the average woman's life - the… — Virginia Woolf
No, you sort of have to put that out of your mind. There's always a possibility that you can have a catastrophic failure, of course.… — Gus Grissom
At least I've had to come to that in my life, to realize that this stuff called failure, this stuff, this debris of historical trauma,… — Joy Harjo
It's not about failure; it's about trying something and risking something for attaining your goal — Carol Alt

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