Failure Quotes
4758 quotes by 2649 authors
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Where but in the very asshole of comedown is redemption: as where but brought low, where but in the grief of failure, loss, error do…
— A. R. Ammons
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The habit of giving up when the present task is half ï¬nished and try something else is one of the chief causes of failure.
— Christian D. Larson
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So long as the man with ambition is a failure, the world will tell him to let go of his ideal; but when his ambition…
— Christian D. Larson
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Life is struggle. Even to stand up is a struggle against the law of gravity and I think that the joy of life in the…
— George Lincoln Rockwell
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Our system provides for a winner to take office on January 20th, and he is expected to take command of the ship of state. Failure…
— Richard V. Allen
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Education is the only billion dollar industry that tolerates abject failure.
— Geoffrey Canada
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Fail, it's not in my dictionary. I've got a good dictionary up there and the words 'fail' and 'failure' have been ruled out for years.…
— Percy Cerutty
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Though modern Marriage is a tremendous laboratory, its members are often without preparation for the partnership function. How much agony and remorse and failure could…
— Carl Rogers
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There are always risks when you chase after a dream because growth requires that you leave your comfort zone and enter unknown territory. But without…
— Stedman Graham
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You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone.
— Johnny Cash
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There is more genuine joy in climbing the hill of success, even though sweat may be spent and toes may be stubbed, than in aimlessly…
— B. C. Forbes
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When on the brink of complete discouragement, success is discerning that...the line between failure and success is so fine that often a single extra effort…
— Elbert Hubbard
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If failure is not an option, neither is success. Innovation is just repeated failure till you come up with something that works.
— Seth Godin
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Gary Shteyngart has written a memoir for the ages. I spat laughter on the first page and closed the last with wet eyes. Un-put-down-able in…
— Mary Karr
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No one from the intelligence community, anyplace else ever came in and said, ‘What if Saddam is doing all this deception because he actually got…
— Stephen Hadley
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Our present ecological crisis, the biggest single practical threat to our human existence in the middle to long term, has, religious people would say, a…
— Rowan Williams
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Our educational system is not preparing people for the 21st Century. Failure is an essential part of entrepreneurship. If you work hard, you can get…
— Eric Ries
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The reason was the failure of both Japan and China to understand each other and the inability of America and the European powers to sympathize,…
— Hideki Tojo
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Failure is the seed of success
— Kaoru Ishikawa
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The greatest waste … is failure to use the abilities of people…to learn about their frustrations and about the contributions that they are eager to…
— W. Edwards Deming
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