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Quotes About Failure

If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.
~ Ferdinand Porsche
The secret of all failure is disobedience.
~ Mary Slessor
If we are not willing to fail we will never accomplish anything. All creative acts involve the risk of failure.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
I made 5,127 prototypes of my vaccum before I got it right. There were 5,126 failures. But I learned from each one. That's how I came up with a solution. So I don't mind failure.
~ James Dyson
It's not the lack of resources that cause failure, it's the lack of resourcefulness that causes failure.
~ Tony Robbins
Every failure is a lesson learned about your strategy.
~ Thomas A. Edison
Failure is not fun. It can be awful. But living so cautiously that you never fail is worse.
~ J. K. Rowling
If we learn from the experience, there is no failure, only delayed victory.
~ Carrie Chapman Catt
As I said there is nothing wrong with failing. Pick yourself up and try it again. You never are going to know how good you really are until you go out and face failure.
~ Henry Kravis
Most innovations fail. And companies that don't innovate die.
~ Unknown
We are neurotically haunted today by the imminence, and by the ignominy, of failure. We know at how frightening a cost one succeeds: to fail is something too awful to think about.
~ Louis Kronenberger
I Failed My Way To Success.
~ Thomas Edison
Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure.
~ Tommy Lasorda
It's through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.
~ Agnes Martin
Sometimes failure is merely chasing you off the wrong road and onto the right one.
~ Paul Tudor Jones
Progress is made by trial and failure; the failures are generally a hundred times more numerous than the successes ; yet they are usually left unchronicled.
~ Unknown
Testing proves a programmer's failure. Debugging is the programmer's vindication.
~ Boris Beizer
Failure is sometimes the best option if you view the process of entrepreneurship as a lifelong journey.
~ Brad Feld
The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by failures.
~ Humphry Davy
There is always time for failure
~ John Mortimer
The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan.
~ Alan Price
People often represent the weakest link in the security chain and are chronically responsible for the failure of security systems.
~ Bruce Schneier
Businesses should follow and learn from others successes and failures in order to better understand and predict their own.
~ Ben Mezrich
There is only one kind of failure I cannot tolerate: the failure to risk failure.
~ Richard Marcinko