Failure Quotes
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There are some advantages to being a writer: you do generally get better as you get older. I think I understand things better. When I was a kid, I was kind of guessing at the emotion. Now I'm interested in writing more difficult books, books that confront the facts of life, of death and dying and failure - the majority of life. You write outwardly imaginative books when you're younger. When you're older you apply imagination to internal experience.
Ethan Canin -
I really don't think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don't mind the failure but I can't imagine that I'd forgive myself if I didn't try.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
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The tiny cost of failure...is dwarfed by the huge cost of not trying.
Seth Godin -
Through the power of his grace, God can turn around the most devastating sin or failure in our lives.
Brian Houston -
Pride is the great stumbling block of Zion...Pride is ugly; it says if you succeed I am a failure...Pride is basically competitive in nature. When competition ends, pride ends.
Ezra Taft Benson -
America was the worst place in the world in which to fail, fall sick, get old or die, because then your problems had crystallised into the unforgivable sin. Failure.
Evelyn Anthony -
Failure is but the longer road to triumph.
Steve Hockensmith -
Failure is nothing but the kiss of Jesus.
Mother Teresa
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Failure is a reality; we all fail at times, and it's painful when we do. But it's better to fail while striving for something wonderful, challenging, adventurous, and uncertain than to say, " I don't want to try because I may not succeed completely.
Jimmy Carter -
You can not achieve success without the risk of failure. If you are not afraid to fail, than you have a chance, but you are never going to get there unless you risk it.
Paul Heyman -
Failure is impossible.
Susan B. Anthony -
It's not a very high failure rate if you choose people that you really like the sound of.
Bryan Ferry Roxy Music -
If you aren't experiencing failure, then you are making a far worse mistake: You are being driven by the desire to avoid it.
Edwin Catmull -
Any policy is a success by sufficiently low standards and a failure by sufficiently high standards.
Thomas Sowell
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Science and psychology have isolated the one prime cause for success or failure in life. It is the hidden self-image you have of yourself.
Bob Proctor -
Forget mistakes. Forget failure. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day.
Will Durant -
I’m not the first to say that failure, when approached properly, can be an opportunity for growth.
Edwin Catmull -
If you are burdened with depressing feelings of guilt or disappointment, of failure or shame, there is a cure.
Boyd K. Packer -
Failure is merely feedback that there is something blocking the path of the emergence and expansion of the greatest version of yourself.
Mother Teresa -
TO: ALL TEACHERS FROM: JAMES J. MCHABE, ADM. ASST. PLEASE PLOT AND HAND IN THE MEDIAN PERCENTILE CURVE BASED ON THE MIDTERM MARKS IN EACH OF YOUR CLASSES. IF A CLASS CURVE FALLS BELOW THE PERCENTILE OF FAILURES ALLOTTED TO IT, THE EFFICACY OF THE TEACHER MUST BE QUESTIONED. TEACHERS WITH THE HIGHEST NUMBER OF PASSING STUDENTS ARE TO BE COMMENDED.
Bel Kaufman
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To develop working ideas efficiently, I try to fail as fast as I can.
Richard Feynman -
The only real failure is trying to second-guess the taste of an audience. Nothing comes out of that except a kind of inward humiliation.
David Bowie -
Failure is a fundamental factor of success.
Nina Tassler -
I don't understand a way to work other than bold-facedly running towards failure.
Cate Blanchett