Failure Quotes
4758 quotes by 2649 authors
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How one handles success or failure is determined by their early childhood.
— Harold Ramis
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It is important not to allow ever wider coalition-building to become an end in itself. As we saw in the Gulf War of 1990, international…
— Margaret Thatcher
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A man who, beyond the age of 26, finds himself on a bus can count himself as a failure,
— Margaret Thatcher
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As a younger player, you always kind of play with that fear of failure.
— Jason Giambi
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A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way…
— Tom Robbins
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Slowly the poison the whole blood stream fills. It is not the effort nor the failure tires. The waste remains, the waste remains and kills.
— William Empson
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Which, I wonder, brother reader, is the better lot, to die prosperous and famous, or poor and disappointed? To have, and to be forced to…
— William Makepeace Thackeray
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I want to burn with the spirit of the times. I want all servants of the stage to recognize their lofty destiny. I am disturbed…
— Vsevolod Meyerhold
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THE NAME OF THE WIND has everything fantasy readers like, magic and mysteries and ancient evil, but it's also humorous and terrifying and completely believable.…
— Tad Williams
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If you can't embrace both failure or the possibility of failure, or the tremendous fear of failure, you can't be wildly successful. It's just an…
— Donny Deutsch
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My deepest regret from my years in public service is the failure of the United States and the international community to act sooner to halt…
— Madeleine Albright
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No man leaves where he is and seeks a distant place unless he is in some respect a failure.
— James A. Michener
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Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life.
— E. Franklin Frazier
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The patient person accepts a certain amount of failure knowing that it is as important a thread in the fabric of life as is success.…
— Denis Waitley
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This is the great secret. This is the sacred wisdom. Do unto others as you would have it done unto you. All of your problems,…
— Neale Donald Walsch
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The truth is, the liberal policies of the elite class have done little to improve the lot of those who depend so much on them.…
— Benjamin Carson
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I went to Tokyo three years ago. It was a job, though. I did an ad campaign for IBM, so they flew me out there…
— Bobby Lee
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Failure does not shape you; the way you respond to failure shapes you.
— John Ortberg
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To to change misery, disease and failure into joy, health, success and prosperity, I must think, speak and act, in ways which are the exact…
— James Arthur Ray
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Achievement must be made against the possibility of failure, against the risk of defeat. It is no achievement to walk a tightrope laid flat on…
— Ray Kroc
Who Wrote These Failure Quotes
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