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Quotes About Failure

I started SpaceX with the expectation of failure.
~ Elon Musk
The GREATEST battle you wage against FAILURE occurs on the INSIDE, not the OUTSIDE.
~ John C. Maxwell
Being young is greatly overestimated ... Any failure seems so total. Later on you realize you can have another go.
~ Mary Quant
Was Daedalus really stricken with grief when Icarus fell into the sea? Or just disappointed by the design failure
~ Alison Bechdel
Once a mistake .... Twice ... A failure .
~ Robert Evans
Talent comes from experience and failure
~ Richard Branson
A plan is only a scenario, and almost by definition, it is optimistic... As a result, scenario planning can lead to a serious underestimate of the risk of failure.
~ Daniel Kahneman
If you want to know who your friends are, have a major failure.
~ John Cleese
Mediocrity results first and foremost from management failure, not technological failure.
~ James C. Collins
An artist's failures are as valuable as his successes: by misjudging one thing he conforms something else, even if at the time he does not know what that something else is.
~ Bridget Riley
My film directorial career has been nothing but repetition of one failure after another!
~ Takeshi Kitano
We will have to take risks, to chance failure, to be willing to walk away from the familiar paths that have brought us to this point.
~ Alan Hirsch
When it comes to the education of our children... failure is not an option.
~ George W. Bush
In this game that we're playing, we can't win. Some kinds of failure are better than other kinds, that's all.
~ George Orwell
It is only through failure and through experiment that we learn and grow.
~ Isaac Stern
Many successful people have found opportunities in failure and adversity that they could not recognize in more favorable circumstances.
~ Napoleon Hill
Growth always involves the risk of failure.
~ Howard Thurman
Simplicity takes time, patience & practice. Complexity offers too many excuses for failure
~ Dean Cavanagh
The fact that you are free is not your achievement, but rather a failure on our side.
~ Unknown
I picture my epitaph: 'Here lies Paul Newman, who died a failure because his eyes turned brown.
~ Paul Newman
To punish failure is yet another way to encourage mediocrity.
~ Michael Eisner
The only way to combat failure is to see it as an opportunity to improve your direction.
~ Todd Duncan
Failure comes part and parcel with invention. It's not optional.
~ Jeff Bezos
Diets are essentially traning courses in how to feel fat and feel like a failure
~ Paul McKenna