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Quotes about Failure


The images of the unconscious place a great responsibility upon a man. Failure to understand them, or a shirking of ethical responsibility, deprives him of his wholeness and imposes a painful fragmentariness on his life.

Carl Jung

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

Charlie Chaplin

We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.

Bishop Reginald Heber

Greatly begin! Though thou have time But for a line, be that sublime-- Not failure, but low aim is crime.

James Russell Lowell

Here's to the men who lose! What though their work be e'er so nobly plann'd And watched with zealous care; No glorious halo crowns their efforts grand-- Contempt is Failure's share!

G.L. Scarborough

The man who forms the habit of beginning without finishing has simply formed the habit of failure. •Mrs. Charles E. Cowman 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 All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure. •Jean-Paul Sartre No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward. •Amar Gopal Bose He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody. •Joseph Heller Failure is the tuition you pay for success. •Walter Brunell Success is never final, but failure can be. •Bill Parcells Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses. •George Washington Carver I know fear is an obstacle for some people, but it is an illusion to me . . . Failure always made me try harder next time. •Michael Jordan Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. •Confucius The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns. •Francis Picabia You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you. •Walt Disney Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral. •Rosalind Russell My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure. •Abraham Lincoln Success is never final and failure never fatal. It's courage that counts. •George R. Tilton I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom. •George S. Patton There is no human failure greater than to launch a profoundly important endeavour and then leave it half done. •Barbara Ward Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet. •German Proverb A man may fail many times but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else. •J. Paul Getty Failure is not fatal; victory is not success. •Tony Richardson Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have. •Louis Boone Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day. •Jim Rohn There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought. •Laurence J. Peter If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless. •Robert H. Schuller Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. •Truman Capote There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient. •Sri Swami Sivananda Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. •Joe Paterno Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits. •Robert Louis Stevenson Failures are like skinned knees— painful, but superficial. •H. Ross Perot I cannot give the formula for success, but I can give you the formula of failure— which is try to please everybody. •Herbert B. Swope Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street. •Zig Ziglar A proud heart can survive a general failure because such a failure does not prick its pride.

Mrs. Charles E. Cowman

I have no use for men who fail. The cause of their failure is no business of mine, but I want successful men as my associates.

John D. Rockefeller

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

Oscar Wilde

A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

John Burroughs

Failures are divided into two classes--those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

John Charles Salak

Not failure, but low aim, is crime.

James Russell Lowell

A failure is a man who has blundered but is not able to cash in the experience.

Elbert Hubbard

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

George Washington Carver

Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.

Edward Dowden

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Robert Galvin

You cannot have the success without the failures.

H. G. Hasler

The politicians don't just want your money. They want your soul. They want you to be worn down by taxes until you are dependent and helpless. When you subsidize poverty and failure, you get more of both.

James Dale Davidson

You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you can be satisfied that you've tried. If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, and you don't branch out, you don't try-you don't take the risk.

Rosalynn Smith Carter

You must have long term goals to keep you from being frustrated by short term failures.

Charles C. Noble

Whatever task that you undertake, do it with all your heart and soul. Always be courteous, never be discouraged. Beware of him who promises something for nothing. Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures. Do not look for approval except in the consciousness of doing your best. -Bernard M. Baruch.

Bernard M. Baruch

Failure is impossible.

Susan B. Anthony

Each time you are honest and conduct yourself with honesty, a success force will drive you toward greater success. Each time you lie, even with a little white lie, there are strong forces pushing you toward failure.

Joseph Sugarman

Indecision and delays are the parents of failure.

George Canning

To put away aimlessness and weakness, and 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; who make all conditions serve them, and who think strongly, attempt fearlessly, and accomplish masterfully.

James Allen

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Thomas Alva Edison

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