FAILURE QUOTES IV

quotations about failure

If something doesn't go your way, it's probably because you didn't work that hard at it.

CHRIS SIMMS

Lakeland Ledger, Nov. 24, Lakeland Ledger, Nov. 24, 2005

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The only guarantee for failure is to stop trying.

JOHN C. MAXWELL

Put Your Dream to the Test

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My parents always allowed me to fail when I was growing up, and I think that gave me a lot of strength going forward in my life. I lost high-school and junior-high elections when I ran for class president. I learned early in life to get up and dust yourself off and keep going.

ANDREA WONG

Newsweek, Oct. 15, 2007

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Don't fear failure -- Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

BRUCE LEE

Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living

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Failure is ever impending.

WALTER BAGEHOT

Estimates of Some Englishmen and Scotchmen

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The fact that you have been knocked down is interesting, but the length of time you remained down is important.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought

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One of the most important tasks of a manager is to eliminate his people’s excuses for failure.

ROBERT TOWNSEND

Further Up the Organization

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If a man has directed his course to great ends there is compensation even in ruin.

ARTHUR LYNCH

Moods of Life

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Better to fail in the pursuit of the noble, than to succeed in the search for the mean.

IVAN PANIN

Thoughts

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I would way rather not have middle ground. I would way rather fail in someone's eyes than be that sort of tepid ... that's the worst.

SCARLETT JOHANSSON

The Guardian, March 16, 2014

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I'm very proud of my failures. I'm perverse that way.

BARRY DILLER

Playboy, Jul. 1989

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There's no disgrace in failing, lad,
Though friends and foes deride;
In fact, a failure's not so bad
As never having tried.

EDGAR GUEST

"The Shame"

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All great success is preceded by failure.

BRIAN TRACY

The 100 Absolutely Unbreakable Laws of Business Success

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In times of success remember many have succeeded even better than thou: in times of failure, remember many have failed even worse than thou.

IVAN PANIN

Thoughts

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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

TRUMAN CAPOTE

Portraits and Observations

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I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

ANTHONY ROBBINS

Awaken the Giant Within

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My problem is that I don't get the same exhiliration from success as I get depression from failure.

STEVE MARTIN

Time Magazine, Aug. 24, 1987

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Every man is in some sort a failure to himself. No one ever reaches the heights to which he aspires.

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Table-Talk

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Man is certain of nothing but his ability to fail.

KEN KESEY

Sometimes a Great Notion

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Few things are impracticable in themselves; and 'tis for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail of success.

FRANÇOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Moral Maxims

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