FAILURE QUOTES III

quotations about failure

The determined soul laughs at failures and makes stepping-stones to greater victories.

HENRY F. KLETZING & ELMER L. KLETZING

Traits of Character Illustrated in Bible Light


A proud heart can survive general failure because such a failure does not prick its pride. It is more difficult and more bitter when a man fails alone.

CHINUA ACHEBE

Things Fall Apart

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No matter whether failure came
A thousand different times,
For one brief moment of success,
Life rang its golden chimes.

EDWIN LEIBFREED

"I Am Content"

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Ninety-nine percent of failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER

as quoted in Roy B. Zuck's The Speaker's Quote Book

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There is no sorrow I have thought more about than that--to love what is great, and try to reach it, and yet to fail.

GEORGE ELIOT

Middlemarch

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Most important thing in life ... is learning how to fall.

JEANNETTE WALLS

Half Broke Horses


We learn from failure, not from success!

BRAM STOKER

Dracula

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Time and again we fail ... and each time we fail, we rise up again and continue, determined this time to fail better.

PAUL MCAULEY

The Quiet War

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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

ROBERT BROWNING

prologue, Apollo and the Fates

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Failure is regarded in Hollywood as practically a contagious disease; people will literally cross the road to avoid someone who is tainted with it.

BARRY NORMAN

The Film Greats

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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

THOMAS EDISON

attributed, Quote Unquote

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There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

JOHN KEATS

preface, Endymion

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Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in that grey twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.

THEODORE ROOSEVELT

The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses

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Clever or industrious men sometimes produce results which they represent to themselves as failures, while to the rest of the world they appear very much like successes.

CHARLES TOMLINSON

"On Failure", Essays Old and New


He who has conquered doubt and fear has conquered failure.

JAMES ALLEN

As a Man Thinketh


In all pursuits men complain of failure when they have not attained the measure of success they proposed to themselves.

CHARLES TOMLINSON

Essays Old and New


Children have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed of failing, but to get up and try again. Most of us adults are so afraid, so cautious, so 'safe,' and therefore so shrinking and rigid and afraid that it is why so many humans fail. Most middle-aged adults have resigned themselves to failure.

MALCOLM X

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

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THE ONLY REAL FAILURE IS TO FAIL OTHERS.

PHILIP K. DICK

A Scanner Darkly

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We sink to rise.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Letters and Social Aims

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Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

GEORGE ELIOT

Middlemarch

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