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Quotes About Failure

I lose now and then. I get lazy. And sometimes I work just hard enough to win.
~ Joey Chestnut
I don't think people realize how many scripts you write that go nowhere.
~ Robert Ben Garant
Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art.
~ Ezra Pound
None of what Barack Obama is doing or wants to do to this country is anything the rest of the world hasn't seen before and already failed at.
~ Rush Limbaugh
If the idea behind Obamacare was to get everyone covered, that's one of the many failures.
~ Mitch McConnell
The Obamacare roll-out was an epic failure.
~ Jesse Lee Peterson
Objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories: those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.
~ Russell Baker
Government loses its claim to legitimacy when it fails to fulfill its obligations.
~ Martin L. Gross
The Mueller investigation failed to find any evidence to support the big lie that the Trump campaign colluded with the Russian government and failed miserably to prove any obstruction.
~ Tom Fitton
This game is obviously about failure. You're going to fail most of the time. It's how you handle it.
~ Mookie Betts
The journalists have obviously failed to capture my innate magnetism, humour and charisma, and they all need to be fired from their newspapers right away.
~ Alexei Sayle
I made a lot of mistakes. And obviously, it cost me.
~ Allen Iverson
To be successful at anything, you need the right to fail, not just occasionally.
~ Stephen Frears
Piety can also serve as a wall to keep the pious from recognizing how profoundly angry they are at God—this God who has failed to treat them by what they see as their proper right.
~ Norman Mailer
Maybe all illness results from a failure of communication between mind and body. It is certainly true of such quick disease as a knockout.
~ Norman Mailer
Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
Winston Churchill expresses it well. He says, "Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
Courage can be many things, but the secret of courage is simply and honestly to admit your feelings of failure. And then with God's help go on and do your job in spite of them.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons.
~ Norton Juster
The Mathemagician nodded knowingly and stroked his chin several times. "You'll find," he remarked gently, "that the only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that's hardly worth the effort.
~ Norton Juster
You often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than right for the wrong reasons.
~ Norton Juster
You'll find," he remarked gently, "that the only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that's hardly worth the effort.
~ Norton Juster
You'll find that the only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that's hardly worth the effort.
~ Norton Juster
You'll find that the only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that's hardly worth the effort. - The Mathemagician
~ Norton Juster