Failure Quotes
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Although I didn't write myself off as a complete failure, all illusion and romance was gone. I was no longer able to inflate myself; I had disappointed my own expectations and was genuinely worried about dying in the streets.
Arthur Nersesian -
If the worst happens, if you lose and fail, but you still celebrate coming second because you've given it a red hot go. There is no need to fear failure.
Anh Do
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Without failure there is no achievement.
John C. Maxwell -
Failure is really a matter of conceit. People don't work hard because, in their conceit, they imagine they'll succeed without ever making an effort. Most people believe that they'll wake up some day and find themselves rich. Actually, they've got it half right, because eventually they do wake up.
Thomas A. Edison -
Take the happiest man, the one most envied by the world, and in nine cases out of ten his inmost consciousness is one of failure. Either his ideals in the line of his achievements are pitched far higher than the achievements themselves, or else he has secret ideals of which the world knows nothing, and in regard to which he inwardly knows himself to be found wanting.
William James -
If one's man's trash is another man's treasure, then one industry's potential failure is another's opportunity.
Adam Lashinsky -
Failure is just another way to learn how to do something right.
Marian Wright Edelman -
Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.
George Eliot
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Don't wallow in failure. Instead, learn from it.
Bill Gates -
Fear too often spells failure.
Walt Disney -
When we're in game worlds, I believe that many of us become the best version of ourselves: the most likely to help at a moment's notice. The most likely to stick with a problem as long as it takes. To get up after failure and try again.
Jane McGonigal -
We are more afraid of excellence than of failure.
Marianne Williamson -
Resourcefulnes s is the cure to failure. Successful people are resourceful and find a way to make it work.
Anthony Robbins -
Failure is inherent in the game. So if you don't respond well to adversity, you're probably not going to have a long career.
Theo Epstein
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I always go heavy and I always go to failure. Even when I tell myself I'm gonna go easy, once I get to the gym and start working, I never end up going easy. I hate leaving the floor feeling like I could have done more weight or more reps. I just love working out and going further than I ever did before.
Branch Warren -
Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.
George Eliot -
In this life you can take poverty, you can take failure, you can take the big things; it's the little griefs that destroy you inside.
Hedda Hopper -
An action comitted in anger is an action doomed to failure.
Genghis Khan -
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
Vincent Van Gogh -
Real courage is holding on to a still voice in your head that says, 'I must keep going.' It's that voice that says nothing is a failure if it is not final. That voice that says to you, 'Get out of bed. Keep going. I will not quit.'
Cory Booker
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I never look at failing as an option anyhow. I believe thinking you could fail is already shooting yourself in the foot and setting yourself up for failure.
Ashley Purdy -
Failure I can live with. Not trying is what I can't handle!
Sanya Richards-Ross -
Every man who is not for us in this prolonged struggle for liberty is responsible for the present degradation of the mothers of the race. It is pitiful to see how few men ever have made our cause their own, but while leaving us to fight our battle alone, they have been unsparing in their criticism of every failure. Of all the battles for liberty in the long past, woman only has been left to fight her own, without help and with all the powers of earth and heaven, human and divine, arrayed against her.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton -
Pessimism is an excuse for not trying and a guarantee to a personal failure.
Bill Clinton