Quotes About Failure

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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas A. Edison
tags: edison, failure, inspirational, paraphrased
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Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that
counts.
Winston S. Churchill
tags: bravery, courage, failure, inspirational, success
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I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula
for failure: try to please everybody all the time.
Herbert Bayard Swope
tags: failure, inspirational, misattributed-bill-cosby, success
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There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear
of failure.
Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
tags: achievement, dreams, failure, fear
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Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.

Lance Armstrong, Every Second Counts
tags: cancer, failure, inspiration, inspirational, pain, quitting
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You must make a decision that you are going to move on. It wont happen
automatically. You will have to rise up and say, I dont care how hard this is, I
dont care how disappointed I am, Im not going to let this get the best of me.
Im moving on with my life.
Joel Osteen, Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential

tags: disappointment, failure, moving-on

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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

Truman Capote
tags: experience, failure, metaphor, success, wisdom
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Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

Salvador Dal
tags: failure, fear, imperfection, mistakes, perfection, success
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Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.

Winston S. Churchill

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Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

Coco Chanel
tags: failure, success, time
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To err is human, to forgive, divine.

Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism
tags: failure, forgiveness, humanity, mistakes
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The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep
us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we
want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who

dont want it badly enough. Theyre there to stop the other people.
Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
tags: barriers, challenges, failure, failures, inspirational, perseverance
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You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it
may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are,
what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.
Maya Angelou
tags: adversity, character, failure, perseverance
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My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of

them.
Jack Kerouac
tags: failure, passion
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It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

Theodore Roosevelt
tags: bravery, decisiveness, failure, inaction, success, timidity
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Life is full of screwups. You're supposed to fail sometimes. It's a required part
of the human existance.
Sarah Dessen, Along for the Ride
tags: eli, failure
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A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to

find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.
Friedrich Nietzsche
tags: failure, intelligence, science, scientific-process, success, truth
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All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail
again. Fail better.
Samuel Beckett, Worstward Ho
tags: failure, perseverance
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Success is most often achieved by those who don't know that failure is
inevitable.
Coco Chanel, Believing in Ourselves: The Wisdom of Women
tags: attitudes, belief, confidence, failure, self-confidence, success
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Just because you fail once doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything.
Marilyn Monroe
tags: courage, failure, marilyn-monroe, perseverance
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Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Robert F. Kennedy
tags: achievement, challenge, failure, success, trying
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No matter how old you are now. You are never too young or too old for
success or going after what you want. Heres a short list of people who
accomplished great things at different ages
1) Helen Keller, at the age of 19 months, became deaf and blind. But that
didnt stop her. She was the first deaf and blind person to earn a Bachelor of
Arts degree.
2) Mozart was already competent on keyboard and violin; he composed from
the age of 5.
3) Shirley Temple was 6 when she became a movie star on Bright Eyes.
4) Anne Frank was 12 when she wrote the diary of Anne Frank.
5) Magnus Carlsen became a chess Grandmaster at the age of 13.
6) Nadia Comneci was a gymnast from Romania that scored seven perfect
10.0 and won three gold medals at the Olympics at age 14.
7) Tenzin Gyatso was formally recognized as the 14th Dalai Lama in
November 1950, at the age of 15.
8) Pele, a soccer superstar, was 17 years old when he won the world cup in
1958 with Brazil.
9) Elvis was a superstar by age 19.
10) John Lennon was 20 years and Paul Mcartney was 18 when the Beatles
had their first concert in 1961.
11) Jesse Owens was 22 when he won 4 gold medals in Berlin 1936.

12) Beethoven was a piano virtuoso by age 23

13) Issac Newton wrote Philosophi Naturalis Principia Mathematica at age
24
14) Roger Bannister was 25 when he broke the 4 minute mile record
15) Albert Einstein was 26 when he wrote the theory of relativity
16) Lance E. Armstrong was 27 when he won the tour de France
17) Michelangelo created two of the greatest sculptures David and Pieta
by age 28
18) Alexander the Great, by age 29, had created one of the largest empires of
the ancient world
19) J.K. Rowling was 30 years old when she finished the first manuscript of
Harry Potter
20) Amelia Earhart was 31 years old when she became the first woman to fly
solo across the Atlantic Ocean
21) Oprah was 32 when she started her talk show, which has become the
highest-rated program of its kind
22) Edmund Hillary was 33 when he became the first man to reach Mount
Everest
23) Martin Luther King Jr. was 34 when he wrote the speech I Have a
Dream."
24) Marie Curie was 35 years old when she got nominated for a Nobel Prize in
Physics
25) The Wright brothers, Orville (32) and Wilbur (36) invented and built the
world's first successful airplane and making the first controlled, powered and
sustained heavier-than-air human flight
26) Vincent Van Gogh was 37 when he died virtually unknown, yet his
paintings today are worth millions.
27) Neil Armstrong was 38 when he became the first man to set foot on the
moon.
28) Mark Twain was 40 when he wrote "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", and
49 years old when he wrote "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"
29) Christopher Columbus was 41 when he discovered the Americas
30) Rosa Parks was 42 when she refused to obey the bus drivers order to
give up her seat to make room for a white passenger
31) John F. Kennedy was 43 years old when he became President of the
United States
32) Henry Ford Was 45 when the Ford T came out.
33) Suzanne Collins was 46 when she wrote "The Hunger Games"
34) Charles Darwin was 50 years old when his book On the Origin of Species
came out.
35) Leonardo Da Vinci was 51 years old when he painted the Mona Lisa.
36) Abraham Lincoln was 52 when he became president.
37) Ray Kroc Was 53 when he bought the McDonalds Franchise and took it to
unprecedented levels.

38) Dr. Seuss was 54 when he wrote "The Cat in the Hat".
40) Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger III was 57 years old when he successfully
ditched US Airways Flight 1549 in the Hudson River in 2009. All of the 155
passengers aboard the aircraft survived
41) Colonel Harland Sanders was 61 when he started the KFC Franchise
42) J.R.R Tolkien was 62 when the Lord of the Ring books came out
43) Ronald Reagan was 69 when he became President of the US
44) Jack Lalane at age 70 handcuffed, shackled, towed 70 rowboats
45) Nelson Mandela was 76 when he became President
Pablo
tags: age, confidence, discipline, effort, excuses, failure, faith, isnpiration,
love, motivation, olympics, opportunities, opportunity, president, success
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Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
tags: failure, perseverance, tenacity
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I'm done with those; regrets are an excuse for people who have failed.
Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story
tags: failure, living, moving-on, regrets
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Together, they would watch everything that was so carefully planned

collapse, and they would smile at the beauty of destruction.
Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
tags: death, destruction, failure
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I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.

Benjamin Franklin
tags: examinations, failure, humor
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I make mistakes like the next man. In fact, being--forgive me--rather cleverer
than most men, my mistakes tend to be correspondingly huger.
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
tags: failure, intelligence, mistakes, self-recognition

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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.

H.G. Wells
tags: failure, perseverance, tenacity
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We are all failures- at least the best of us are.

J.M. Barrie
tags: failure, learning, moving-on, self-criticism, success
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My past is everything I failed to be.

Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
tags: failure, past, self, time

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