Failure Quotes
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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
George Eliot -
We are not merely tempered and schooled by failure but compelled, in however subtle a fashion, to become something other than we were.
Anthony Lane
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After all is said and done, I believe the true measure of success is how many times you can bounce back from failure.
Ziad K. Abdelnour -
Be calm and strong and patient. Meet failure and disappointment with courage. Rise superior to the trials of life, and never give in to hopelessness or despair. In danger, in adversity, cling to your principles and ideals. Aequanimitas!
William Osler -
Recovering from failure is often easier than building from success.
Michael Eisner -
The difference between a score in the 90s and a century is often reflected as the difference between failure and success. It may be illogical, but in cricket, a century has its own magic.
Geoffrey Boycott -
The measure of a man’s character is not determined by how he handles his wins, but how he handles his failures.
Bill Courtney -
The Fed’s policies have been an unqualified success for financiers and an abject failure for the bottom 99.5% who have to work for a living.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
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You're never a failure until you fail to get up.
Evel Knievel -
Somehow, in many of those near-miss instances, I've managed to fight through and continue. But in all these situations, even when they're apparently going well, I feel I am living on the razor's edge between success and failure, adulation and humiliation - between justifying my existence and revealing my unworthiness to be alive.
Scott Stossel -
This search for perfection - which is a search for divinity - is nothing more than the failure to accept our existence the way it is.
Bernadette Roberts -
Hard work does not guarantee success, but no work guarantees failure.
Cesc Fabregas -
Sloth is the failure to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done - like the kamikaze pilot who flew seventeen missions.
John Ortberg -
In truth, in the fairy-tale version of bailing out Lehman, the next domino, A.I.G., would have fallen even harder. If the politics of bailing out Lehman were bad, the politics of bailing out A.I.G. would have been worse. And the systemic risk that a failure of A.I.G. posed was orders of magnitude greater than Lehman's collapse.
Andrew Ross Sorkin
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I still take failure very seriously, but I've found that the only way I could overcome the feeling is to keep on working, and trying to benefit from failures or disappointments. There are always some lessons to be learned. So I keep on working.
Denton Cooley -
What strikes me is that there's a very fine line between success and failure. Just one ingredient can make the difference.
Andrew Lloyd Webber -
Never let failure discourage you. Every time you get to the base of a mountain (literal or metaphorical), you're presented with a new opportunity to challenge yourself, to push your limits beyond what you thought possible, to learn from climbers on the trail ahead of you, and to take in some amazing views. Your performance on the mountain you climbed last week or last month or last year doesn't matter - because it's all about what you are doing right now.
Alison Levine -
People often avoid making decisions out of fear of making a mistake. Actually the failure to make decisions is one of life's biggest mistakes.
Noah Weinberg -
The right shot at the right moment does not come because you do not let go of yourself. You do not wait for fulfilment, but brace yourself for failure.
Eugen Herrigel -
Failure may be just a step toward your eventual goal.
Georgette Mosbacher
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That which chiefly causes the failure of a dinner-party, is the running short--not of meat, nor yet of drink, but of conversation.
Lewis Carroll -
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan -
It is our moral failure that we still tolerate poverty.
Ela Bhatt -
Never be afraid to fail. Failure is only a stepping stone to improvement. Never be overconfident because that will block your improvement.
Tatchakorn Yeerum