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Failure Quotes

"I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure."

Anne Baxter, American Actress

"A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying."

John Burroughs, American Author

Failure, Blame, Man, Trying

"By virtually any measure, the record of the Republican Majority is an appalling failure."

Sheila Jackson Lee, American Politician

Failure, Majority, Measure, Republican

"My failures have been errors in judgment, not of intent."

Ulysses S. Grant, American President

Failure, Errors, Judgment

"You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give."

E. O. Wilson, American Scientist

Failure, Goal, Needs, Right

"The fear of failure is a liability."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Failure, Fear, Truth, Wisdom, Power

"You can't have any successes unless you can accept failure."

George Cukor, American Producer

"Poverty is a mathematical proof of the fact that mankind is a big failure!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

Failure, Truth, Life, Wisdom

"If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

Failure, Building

"Indecision and delays are the parents of failure."

George Canning, English Statesman

Failure, Indecision, Parents

"Any blunder committed in the past opens the avenue for the success of the future. However, the success of the future massively is fueled by the how positively the mistakes of the past are handled!"

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

Failure, Mistakes, Success, Growth

"Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed."

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austrian Actor

Failure, Succeed

"When I got Jacob's Latter, I was nervous because I felt I wasn't allowed to fail. I felt that they were waiting for one little failure and that would prove them right and I'd be,"out of there.""

Elizabeth Pena, American Actress

Failure, Right, Waiting

"Failure is a word that I simply don't accept."

John H. Johnson, American Businessman

"Even as far back as when I started acting at 14, I know I've never considered failure."

Jennifer Lawrence, American Actress

Failure, Acting

"In our tabulation of psychoanalytic results, we have classed those who stopped treatment together with those not improved. This appears to be reasonable; a patient who fails to finish his treatment, and is not improved, is surely a therapeutic failure."

Hans Eysenck, German Psychologist

Failure, Results, Treatment

"Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing."

Denis Waitley, American Writer

Failure, Being, Defeat, Delay

"I have always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure."

T. Boone Pickens, American Businessman

"One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king."

Abraham Maslow, American Psychologist

Failure, Man, Possibilities, Sense

"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 to do so, characterized by hesitation and indecision, will harm the national interest."

Richard V. Allen, American Public Servant

Failure, Harm, Hesitation, Indecision

"The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure."

Laurence J. Peter, Canadian Writer

Failure, Content, Question

"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 lyric poem, with interrelated sections."

Hart Crane, American Poet

Failure, Fact, Folk

"To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment."

James Allen, British Author

Failure, Purpose

"Celebrate your failures as much as your successes; both are lessons."

Osho, Indian Philosopher

Failure, Learning

"Failure is not a crime. The crime is not trying."

Ron Dellums, American Politician

Failure, Crime, Trying

"There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose."

Kin Hubbard, American Journalist

Failure, Purpose, Defeat, Trying

"Show me a good and gracious loser and I'll show you a failure."

Knute Rockne, American Coach

"Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day."

Jim Rohn, American Businessman

Failure, Day, Errors, Judgment

"Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?"

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

Failure, Man, Old

"Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty."

Lillian Hellman, American Dramatist

Failure, Theater, Writing

"I simply don't believe in failure. In itself, it doesn't exist. We create it. We make ourselves fail."

Alice Foote MacDougall, American Restaurateur

"Failure gives you the experience and the wisdom to be a success in the future."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Failure, Wisdom, Success, Growth

"Failure results from lack of focus and half trust. Success results from complete devotion and utmost trust."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Failure, Focus, Success, Devotion

"Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

Failure, Authority, Crime, Fool

"Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy."

Montgomery Clift, American Actor

Failure, Artist, Energy, Misery

"We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world."

Charles Kettering, American Inventor

Failure, Cause, Disgrace, Man

"A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection."

Arthur Bloch, American Author

"Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure."

Tommy Lasorda, American Coach

Failure, Pressure, Thinking, Vocabulary

"Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital."

Daniel Webster, American Statesman

Failure, Energy, Want

"Failure is an opportunity to reflect and realize."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Failure, Reflection, Opportunity, Learning

"Rather than allowing your failures to define you, learn from your experience to do better next time."

Susan C. Young, American Author

Failure, Regret, Truth, Power, Today

"If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style."

Quentin Crisp, English Writer

Failure, First, May, Style

"I think some parents now look at a youngster failing as the final thing. It's a process, and failure is part of the process. I would like it if the teacher and the parents would connect more. I think that used to be, but we're losing a little bit of that right now."

Mike Krzyzewski, American Coach

Failure, Losing, Now, Parents

"Nothing fails like failure."

Margaret Drabble, English Novelist

Failure, Nothing

"Failure is temporary but hope is forever."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Failure, Hope, Temporary, Success

"Don't be afraid to fall, for every fall teaches you how to rise."

Osho, Indian Philosopher

Failure, Lessons

"Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets."

Michael Korda, English Novelist

"What we've got here is a failure to communicate."

Donn Pearce, American Novelist

"Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man."

William Howard Taft, American President

Failure, Credit, Man, May

"At the root of many a woman's failure to become a great cook lies her failure to develop a workmanlike regard for knives."

Robert Farrar Capon, American Theologian

Failure, Lies, Woman

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