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Quotes About Failure

You will fail. That's great. Here's a secret for you - that's the only way you can learn. Learning has to cost you something. If you fail but learn something from your failure, you will grow.
~ Stella Adler
If you fail at your job, you do not blame some outside force. You look right in the mirror and take responsibility. That was the problem with the world. No one took responsibility.
~ Stephen Chbosky
The injured captain, lying in the bow, was at this time buried in that profound dejection and indifference which comes, temporarily at least, to even the bravest and most enduring when, willy nilly, the firm fails, the army loses, the ship goes down.
~ Stephen Crane
Doesn't blood usually follow when language fails?
~ Stephen Dunn
failure at one point could throw the momentum out of balance and result in chaos. All in that room were aware
~ Stephen E. Ambrose
We gave you a perfectly good language and you f***ed up.
~ Stephen Fry
Here Phaeton lies who in the sun-god's chariot fared. And though greatly he failed, more greatly he dared.
~ Stephen Fry
Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn't have to be like this.
~ Stephen Hawking
I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark
~ Stephen Hawking
Patience gives your spouse permission to be human. It understands that everyone fails. When a mistake is made, it chooses to give them more time that they deserve to correct it. It gives you the ability to hold on during the rough times in your relationship rather than bailing out under the pressure.
~ Stephen Kendrick
We have once again succeeded in destroying what we could not create.
~ Stephen King
Optimism is a perfectly legitimate response to failure.
~ Stephen King
Do they see the lethal insanity of a race to the brink of oblivion, and then over the edge? Apparently not. If they did, surely they wouldn't be racing to begin with. Or is it a simple failure of imagination? One doesn't like to think such a rudimentary failing could bring about the end, yet...
~ Stephen King
When you're still too young to shave, optimism is a perfectly legitimate response to failure.
~ Stephen King
It was over. We had once again succeeded in destroying what we could not create.
~ Stephen King
HEY, BOBBY TERRY, YOU SCROOOOWED IT UP!
~ Stephen King
You doom yourselves, Susannah. You seem positively bent on it, and the root is always the same: your faith fails you, and you replace it with rational thought. But there is no love in thought, nothing that lasts in deduction, only death in rationalism.
~ Stephen King
When machines fail, when technology fails, when the conventional religion fails, people have got to have something. Even a zombin lurching through the night can seem pretty cheerful compared to the existential comedy/horror of the ozone layer dissolving under the combined assult of a million flurocarbon spray cans of deoderant. - The Mist
~ Stephen King
Sometimes we just get it wrong.
~ Stephen King
Big Jim - Take a good look, pal - this is what incompetency, false hope, and too much informations gets you. They're just unhappy and disappointed now, but when they get over that, they'll be mad. We're gonna need more police.
~ Stephen King
The is no greater pain than the one you cause yourself when you let yourself down when a good chance present itself for you to advance your life!
~ Stan The Man SA
Planning is the key to success, course he who fails to plan has actually plan to fail
~ david ibeyeomie
Fail to learn, not the other way around
~ NightBits
If you go up HUMBLED, you'll come down PROUD. But if you go up PROUDLY you'll come down HUMBLED.
~ Eli Evans