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Quotes About Failure

And the daughter . Bit of a social failure. Well, that's putting it delicately. Quite overweight. Collects the cats, if you know what I mean.
~ Donna Tartt
Chico was a small-time hustler and big-time loser who liked to bet the ponies and hit women. He was more successful at the latter.
~ J.A. Konrath
There was a man Who made a boat To sail away And it sank.
~ Unknown
Angst ist der Schlüssel zum Erfolg und der Hauptgrund für dein Scheitern, Angst ist das zugrunde liegende Dilemma in jeder Geschihte, die du dir über dich selbst erzählst. Und was ist die einzige Chance, die du gegen Angst hast? Folge ihr. Lass dich von ihr leiten.
~ Unknown
Work is destiny. A man talks about the woman he loves, he might sound excited, but get him talking about his job, then check his eyes—that's the real him. A man is his job, kid, and I had no job, so I was a bum. A loser. America's a great place to be a winner, but it's hell's basement for losers. Three
~ Unknown
The idea that errors were stepping-stones to truth never once occurred to me
~ Unknown
Not making a decision was making a decision not to move. A decision to fail.
~ Jack Campbell
Success consists of going from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.
~ Jack Canfield
With the right attitude, a failure can be converted into a lesson and a stepping-stone for future success.
~ Jack Canfield
Don't worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try.
~ Jack Canfield
Failure Is Not Predictive
~ Jack D. Schwager
there is probably no class of trades with a higher failure rate than impulsive (not to be confused with intuitive) trades.
~ Jack D. Schwager
Queerness offers the promise of failure as a way of life...but it is up to us whether we choose to make good on that promise in a way that makes a detour around the usual markers of accomplishment and satisfaction" (The Queer Art of Failure, "Ending, Fleeing, Surviving")
~ Unknown
My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
~ Jack Kerouac
It takes hundreds of good golf shots to gain confidence, but only one bad
~ Jack Nicklaus
I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.
~ Jack Welch
We don't get to choose our formative moments. Very often, adversity and failure shape us more permanently than fortune and success.
~ Jackie Speier
These days I sit on corner stones And count the time in quarter tones to ten, my friend Don't confront me with my failures I had not forgotten them
~ Jackson Browne
Here lies Joseph II, who was unfortunate in everything that he undertook
~ Unknown
Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.
~ Jacob Bronowski
The world is full of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.
~ Jacob Bronowski
Many theories of the ancient world seem terribly childish today, a hodge-podge of fables and false comparisons.But our theories will seem childish five-hundred years from now.Every theory is based on some analogy, and sooner or later the theory fails because the analogy turns out to be false. A theory in its day helps to solve the problems of the day.
~ Jacob Bronowski
There are two kinds of scholars: those who act on their knowledge, these are the saved ones; and those who do not put into practise what they know, these are led to their downfall.
~ Unknown
people who have failed in their lives, they are suffering their failure. People who have succeeded in their life, they are suffering their success.
~ Jaggi Vasudev