Failure Quotes
– Jawaharlal Nehru
– Kevin Costner
Even when you have doubts, take that step. Take chances. Mistakes are never a failure - they can be turned into wisdom.
– Cat Cora
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Even in a gleefully negative comic, there is optimism, although it's slightly hidden: It comes out through a comic character's sheer tenacity. He keeps going and trying to find some sort of fulfillment regardless of his perpetual failure record. That's a form of hope, a form of optimism. Really hokey I know, but it's true.
– Lev Yilmaz
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– Jennifer Lawrence
– James Dyson
– Edsger Dijkstra
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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– Richard Branson
– Jerry Bruckheimer
– George Edward Woodberry
– Sarah McLachlan
– Serj Tankian
– Bodhidharma
– Cliff Richard
– Thomas Haden Church
Beside every great success are the seeds of enormous failure. In every failure, there's the opportunity seeds of great success. They're not miles apart. So if they're that close together, and if you're really working, you're always gonna have that likelihood that something's not going to work.
– Peter Guber
– Edward Abbey
Before I was married, I didn't consider my failure to manage even basic hand tools a feminist inadequacy. I thought it had more to do with being Jewish. The Jews I knew growing up didn't do 'do-it-yourself.' When my father needed to hammer something he generally used his shoe, and the only real tool he owned was a pair of needle-nose pliers.
– Ayelet Waldman
– Hector Berlioz
As soon as I did my first five minutes of stand-up I knew that I would rather be a failure at comedy than a success in marketing.
– Jimmy Carr
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– Jason Giambi
And obviously, with hindsight now, now knowing what went on in the company, it would have been absolutely appropriate back then for us to have the chief executive of the company, most senior person in the United Kingdom, come and answer for the policy they were pursuing. And we ducked that, and frankly that's a failure of Parliament.
– Tom A. Watson
America traditionally represents the greatest possibility of someone's going from nothing to something. Why? In theory, if not practice, the government stays out of the way and lets individuals take risks and reap rewards or accept the consequences of failure. We call this capitalism - or, at least, we used to.
– Larry Elder
America thinks of itself as a meritocracy, so people have more respect for success and more contempt for failure.
– Toby Young
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– Guy Kawasaki
– Jean-Paul Sartre
– Carl Sandburg
– Michael Morpurgo
– Gertrude Stein
– Arnold J. Toynbee
– Robin Tunney
– Arthur Bloch
– Charles Inglis
We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free. Tom Robbins before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.
– Bruce Barton
– Max Beerbohm
Our government, at least according to the NIGHTLINE program that ran, financed STAR GATE over 20 years with 20 million dollars or something like that, at the end of which they more or less declared it to be a failure, and stopped the program.
– Art Bell
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In the publishing business you have to learn to greet failure with the same handshake as you would success.
– Eddie Bell
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– Buddha
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– George Burns
– Roger Babson
– Truman Capote