Famous Failure Quotes - Famous Quotes about Failure
All the world loves a good loser.
- Kin Hubbard
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An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.
- Charles Kettering
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Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times, you don't want to set him down as a failure till he's dead or loses his courage.
- George Lorimer
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Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.
- Daniel Webster
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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
- Truman Capote
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Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
- C. S. Lewis
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I always turn to the sports page first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.
- Earl Warren
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I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure, which is – try to please everybody.
- Herbert Bayard Swope
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I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.
- Oprah Winfrey
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I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
- Bill Cosby
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I had a mother who taught me there is no such thing as failure. It is just a temporary postponement of success.
- Buddy Ebsen
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I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.
- George Burns
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I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.
- George Eliot
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If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you have tried.
- Rule of Failure
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
- Quentin Crisp
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If I fall, look out for the crash. There won't be anyone left standing.
- Eva Peron
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If you keep missing, get closer to the basket.
- Cynthia Copeland Lewis
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If you know you are going to fail, then fail gloriously!
- Cate Blanchett
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If you want to zoom down the expert slope tomorrow, you have to fall down the bunny slope today.
- Cynthia Copeland Lewis
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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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In a total work, the failures have their not unimportant place.
- May Sarton
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Indecision and delays are the parents of failure.
- George Canning
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It doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again.
- Charles Kettering
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It is better to fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than to succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.
- Peter Marshall
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It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.
- Aristotle
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I’m not going to die because I failed as someone else. I’m going to succeed as myself.
- Margaret Cho
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Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Ninety-nine percent of all failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
- George Washington Carver
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Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
- Robert F. Kennedy
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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
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People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.
- Lao Tzu
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Show me a good and gracious loser and I’ll show you a failure.
- Knute Rockne
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Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.
- Rosalind Russell
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The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn.
- Agatha Christie
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The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
- Napoleon Hill
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The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures.
- Humphrey Davy
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The way to succeed is to double your failure rate.
- Thomas J. Watson
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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
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They stayed away in droves.
- Samuel Goldwyn
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This thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.
- Mary Pickford
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When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make a lemonade.
- Dale Carnegie
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You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
- Beverly Sills
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