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Quotes About Failure

My feeling, based on my own experience, is that aiming for grandiosity is the fastest route to failure.
~ James Altucher
When you experience a failure as a leader, don't hide it - talk about it. Your missed opportunity will encourage others to take risks.
~ Naveen Jain
A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.
~ Elbert Hubbard
It's only when you risk failure that you discover things. When you play it safe, you're not expressing the utmost of your human experience.
~ Lupita Nyong'o
It's failure, really, that you grow by, although nobody likes to experience it.
~ Nick Nolte
And as to experience-well, think how little some good poets have had, or how much some bad ones have.
~ Elizabeth Bishop
I have friends who've tried to break into the UK, who went back with their tails between their legs. Fortunately I've had the opposite experience.
~ Michael Bolton
The only way to even approach doing something perfectly is through experience, and experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
~ Oscar Wilde
I like to bet on people, especially those who have taken risks and failed in some way, because they have more real-world experience. And they're humble.
~ Mark Pincus
All actors should experience public failure.
~ Olivia Wilde
Transforming Moment" yes I got it. I Committed. I Tried. I Executed. I Failed. I Motivated. I Succeed.
~ Sivaprakash Sidhu
An action comitted in anger is an action doomed to failure.
~ Genghis Khan
Allow failure to teach you A supreme lesson: Each sunset is the beginning Of a very, very bright And powerful sunrise.
~ Sri Chinmoy
Hell is not a place you go if you're not a Christian, it's the failure of your life's greatest ambition.
~ Immortal Technique
I'm not afraid of failure; I'm afraid of succeeding at things that don't matter.
~ William Carey
One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities.
~ Abraham Maslow
The only way you learn is by failure.
~ Debbie Reynolds
What loss is there in dignity, what worry is there of failure?
~ Zhuge Liang
All failures - neurotics, psychotics, criminals, drunkards, problem children, suicides, perverts, and prostitutes - are failures because they are lacking in social interest
~ Alfred Adler
Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.
~ Samuel McChord Crothers
Making a mistake is falling down; failure is not getting up again.
~ Helen Keller
If we achieve our sustainability targets and no one else follows, we will have failed.
~ Paul Polman
Many people erroneously think they have only one chance to succeed, and if they miss that chance, they are doomed to failure. In fact, most people have several opportunities to succeed.
~ Bill Walsh
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
~ Henry Ford