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21

Jul

Quotations. On Failure


Failure
. The 29th in a series of collections of useable quotations to make you look really smart in your next presentation or report.

 

 

 

If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

Anonymous

 

It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.

Aristotle

 

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.

Beverly Sills

 

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

Bill Cosby

 

If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.

Bill Lyon

 

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

Carl Jung

 

Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

 

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

 

Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

 

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

 

Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.

John Keats

 

If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down

Mary Pickford

 

You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

 

Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal.

Mike Ditka

 

If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

Quentin Crisp

 

We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.

Randy K. Milholland,

 

A minute's success pays the failure of years

Robert Browning

 

Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labours is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

Samuel McChord Crothers

 

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm

Sir Winston Churchill

 

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas A. Edison

 

Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

Walt Whitman

 

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure

William Saroyan

 

 

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