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Quotes About Failure

You can try and maybe fail, or not try and always fail
~ S.M. Stirling
Do not contemplate what lies beyond failure while you are still trying to succeed.
~ Salman Rushdie
In death do triumph and failure humbly meet. We learn far less from victory than from defeat.
~ Salman Rushdie
Anybody who's spent any time with machines at all,' he added, 'and baby, that's us all, knows first and foremost there's only one thing certain about them, computer or bicycle. They go wrong.
~ Salman Rushdie
What I hoped for is indeed beyond hope,' he said. 'I was out of my mind, looking for this year's birds in last year's nests. And all around me America – and not only America, the whole human race! – yes, even our India! – was also losing its reason, its capacity for ethics, its goodness, its soul. And it may be, I can't say, that this deep failure brought down upon us the deeper failure of the cosmos
~ Salman Rushdie
that was the moment we understood that things can go terribly wrong in our world—not because life is unfair or moral progress impossible but because we have failed, generation after generation, to abolish the delusions and animosities of our ignorant ancestors.
~ Sam Harris
There are only two kinds of coaches - those who have been fired, and those who will be fired.
~ Ken Loeffler
Success has many fathers; failures have none.
~ Philip Caldwell
The war on drugs has been a social and political failure. We need to encourage sport and stop encouraging drugs.
~ Steven Machat
Winning is a habit. Unfortunately so is losing.
~ Vince Lombardi Jr.
The burn is my girlfriend, failure is my ex. I'm married to the track and engaged to success.
~ Andre Bramble
Strength is built by one's failures, not by one's successes.
~ Coco Chanel
If your child has a weakness, teach them how to turn it into a strength! The only Failure is not trying.
~ Kevin Heath
It is a weak man who blames his failures on the strength of others.
~ Orson Scott Card
The strongest iron, hardened in the fire, most often ends in scraps and shatterings.
~ Sophocles
Strength is magical, just a little bit more can mean the difference between success and failure.
~ Mike Berry
Self-compassion - being supportive and kind to yourself, especially in the face of stress and failure - is associated with more motivation and better self-control.
~ Kelly McGonigal
Disappointment often focuses on the failure of our own agenda rather than on God's long-term purposes for us, which may use stress and struggle as tools for strengthening our spiritual muscles.
~ Luci Shaw
Underneath the stress is fear, and the biggest is our own personal fear of failure.
~ Tara Brach
I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
~ George S. Patton Jr.
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
~ Herman Melville
In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
~ Bill Cosby
The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.
~ Colin R. Davis
If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success.
~ James Cameron