Failure Quotes
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Failure is an opportunity. If you blame someone else, there is no end to the blame. Therefore the Master fulfills her own obligations and corrects her own mistakes. She does what she needs to do and demands nothing of others.
Lao Tzu -
The most consistently successful commanders, when faced by an enemy in a position that was strong naturally or materially, have hardly ever tackled it in a direct way. And when, under pressure of circumstances, they have risked a direct attack, the result has commonly been to blot their record with a failure.
B. H. Liddell Hart
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Failure's not a bad thing. It builds character. It makes you stronger.
Billy Dee Williams -
I do not know how history will judge me, but let me say that I've spent a lot of time and energy trying to transform the Tatas from a patriarchal concern to an institutional enterprise. It would, therefore, be a mark of failure on my part if it were perceived that Ratan Tata epitomises the Group's success. What I have done is establish growth mechanisms, play down individuals and play up the team that has made the companies what they are. I, for one, am not the kind who loves dwelling on the 'I'. If history remembers me at all, I hope it will be for this transformation.
Ratan Tata -
Once you can accept failure, you can have fun and success.
Rickey Henderson -
Failure and well-disguised cowardice are more human and more beloved.
Ernest Hemingway -
There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.
Eric Hoffer -
He shrugged his shoulders to shift the pain of failure---the pain that is so much greater than the pleasure of success.
Ian Fleming
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Success gives you a platform for further success - suddenly everybody wants to work with you, and your opportunities and possibilities open up. But at the same time, success is also immensely challenging - it ultimately often creates pride, stubbornness, and sloppiness that beget failure, taking down people and organizations.
Joe Lonsdale -
A success that has outlived its usefulness may, in the end, be more damaging than failure.
Peter Drucker -
A positive outlook breeds success, just as a negative outlook breeds failure.
Brad Cohen -
It is only through failure and through experiment that we learn and grow.
Isaac Stern -
Failure is never fatal. But failure to change can and might be.
John Wooden -
There is no failure except in no longer trying.
Chris Bradford
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I think a lot of people are so scared of failure that they don't put everything they have into whatever they want to do. I think, in turn, they write their own destiny.
Arian Foster -
Remind thyself, in the darkest moments, that every failure is only a step toward success, ... Your life will never be the same again.
Og Mandino -
I wish my prose to be transparentĀI don't want the reader to stumble over me; I want him to look through what I'm saying to what I'm describing. I don't want him ever to say, Oh, goodness, how nicely written this is. That would be a failure.
V. S. Naipaul -
I will not allow yesterday's success to lull me into today's complacency, for this is the great foundation of failure.
Og Mandino -
It's not a failure if a marriage or partnership ends after a certain number of years. I think, in general, we expect too much of partners. We can't fulfil a person's every single need and, after ten years or so, many relationships wear out. If we were more philosophical about it, we wouldn't try to blame the other person or be bitter.
Deborah Moggach -
Failure's relative. I've always felt, even early on, if I lose the freedom to fail, something's not right about that. It's how you treat failure, too. There's something to learn from it. I've had movies that have failed colossally, so you kind of analyze your failures: What kind of failure was it? A failure because it's misunderstood by others? A failure because you misunderstood it yourself?
Al Pacino
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It is doubtful if even experience of riches and success is as intense among those who have experienced nothing else as among those who have also experienced poverty and failure. There is little romance in wealth to those who have been born wealthy and whose families have been wealthy for generations.
Robert Wilson Lynd -
Like most young people, these two attributed to the world their own intelligence and virtues. Youth who knows no failure has no mercy on the faults of other people; but it has also a sublime faith in them.
Honore de Balzac -
There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.
John Keats -
Something is wanting, and something must be done, or we shall be involved in all the horror of failure, and civil war without a prospect of its termination.
Henry Knox