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Quotations
Quotations on the topic of ‘failure’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).
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“Success isn’t permanent and failure isn’t fatal.” -Mike Ditka
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“Show me a good and gracious loser and I’ll show you a failure.” -Knute Rockne
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“The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.” -Laurence J. Peter
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“You gotta lose ’em some of the time. When you do, lose ’em right.” -Casey Stengel
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“We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.” -Amos Bronson Alcott
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“A life which does not go into action is a failure.” -Arnold J. Toynbee
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“I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.” -J. Paul Getty
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“There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.” -Ann Landers
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“A hatred of failure has always been part of my nature.” -Paul Getty
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“Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.” -Benjamin Disraeli
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“Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.” -Samuel Beckett
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“Failure is a word unknown to me.” -Muhammad Ali Jinnah
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“All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right about face which turns us from failure to success.” -Dorthea Brande
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“Don’t be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.” -Lily Tomlin
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“Every failure is a step to success.” -William Whewell
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“We failed, but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing.” -Robert E. Lee
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“Success is not built on success. It’s built on failure. It’s built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe.” -Sumner Redstone
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“For every failure, there’s an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.” -Mary Kay Ash
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“Success comes when people act together failure tends to happen alone.” -Deepak Chopra
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“The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.” -Paramahansa Yogananda
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“The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did – which was to hide.” -James A. Baldwin
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“There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.” -Michel de Montaigne
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“There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.” -Tony Robbins
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“Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.” -Zig Ziglar
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“Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.” -Thomas A. Edison
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“If you’re doing your best, you won’t have any time to worry about failure.” -H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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“Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.” -Coco Chanel
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“A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.” -B. F. Skinner
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“If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative.” -Woody Allen
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“Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.” -Wilma Rudolph
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“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
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“I really don’t think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don’t mind the failure but I can’t imagine that I’d forgive myself if I didn’t try.” -Nikki Giovanni
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“I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.” -Paulo Coelho
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“It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes… we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions – especially selfish ones.” -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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“Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.” -C. S. Lewis
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“It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.” -Bill Gates
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“Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.” -Oscar Wilde
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“Don’t be afraid to fail. Don’t waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures and go on to the next challenge. It’s OK to fail. If you’re not failing, you’re not growing.” -H. Stanley Judd
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“We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.” -Rudyard Kipling
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“Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.” -Norman Vincent Peale
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“Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.” -Sivananda
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“Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure… than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.” -Theodore Roosevelt
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“I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.” -Michael Jordan
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“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.” -Calvin Coolidge
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“My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.” -Abraham Lincoln
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“Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.”…
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“Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.” -Benjamin Franklin
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