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Quotes About Failure

As he watches the sun rise, what grieves him is that he failed her. He thinks of the terror she felt. They tell him it was quick, as if that will somehow confine the horror.
~ Nancy Horan, Loving Frank
Rebellion leads to ruin.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Survival is running from death.Our whole life is running from death, but we all just meet it while we are running from it! what a failure is this try!
~ Unknown
it is sad to fill a grave with a person full of potential yet completely emptied of anymore possibility to try it once again.
~ Johnnie Dent Jr.
The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of nonviolence has been the organization of violence.
~ Joan Baez
You don't die in the United States you underachieve.
~ Jerzy Kosinski
Having in my life been bitten by the jaws of both victory and defeat, I must rush to add that success is to failure as butter pecan ice cream is to death.
~ Rupert Holmes
A failed experiment can be more important than a trivial design
~ Verner Panton
For most of us, design is invisible. Until it fails
~ Bruce Mau
Design cannot rescue failed content.
~ Edward Tufte
Where health care has failed is in designing a cost containment mechanism that works.
~ Unknown
A great ad campaign will make a bad product fail faster. It will get more people to know it's bad.
~ William Bernbach
There are 9 rejected ideas for every idea that works.
~ Jonathan Ive
I've learnt something from every failure. The products I helped design at the first two companies I worked for were utter failures. But now I know why.
~ Tony Fadell
To succeed takes more than the desire to win. It also takes the acceptance that we could fail.
~ Simon Sinek
To mind being disliked by a woman you don't desire and are not married to is yet another serious failure of common sense.
~ Wendell Berry
Delicacy in shaping desires of any kind will help to reach excellence, but failure will bring disaster.
~ Unknown
That which we manifest is before us; we are the creators of our own destiny. Be it through intention or ignorance, our successes and our failures have been brought on by none other than ourselves.
~ Garth Stein
Blaming destiny is a poor out for those who don't reach desired destinations.
~ Malcolm Forbes
Children... are our legacy. Our responsibility. They are our destiny and we are theirs. The extent to which we fail as parents, we fail as Gods children.
~ Dirk Benedict
Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Destiny n: a tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.
~ Ambrose Bierce
I have tried every diet to lose weight. When you restrict yourself, you're setting yourself up for failure.
~ Octavia Spencer
Even death itself sometimes fails to bring the dignity and serenity which one would fain associate with old age.
~ Jane Addams