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Quotes About Failure

Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.
~ Daniel Webster
In Europe you learn not to fail, and in America you fail to learn. You need failure.
~ Hartmut Esslinger
Many a good beginning makes a bad ending.
~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
Unfortunately, failure enjoys a natural advantage. Wrong answers to any problem outnumber right ones by a wide margin, and it seems that it will always be easier to break things than to fix them.
~ Sam Harris
The core failure of Team Obama is not a failure to communicate, but a failure to comprehend.
~ Michelle Malkin
It has always been my belief that people are remembered for the sum of their accomplishments but defined by their singular failure.
~ Chuck Klosterman
I regard it as very unfair, but capitalism without failure is like religion without hell.
~ Charlie Munger
Whenever one finds oneself inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
~ Bertrand Russell
There are secret opportunities hidden inside every failure.
~ Sophia Amoruso
Frostbite? I consider that a failure.
~ Mark Twight
Do not be one of those who, rather than risk failure, never attempts anything.
~ Thomas Merton
The power to command frequently causes failure to think.
~ Barbara Tuchman
Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty.
~ Al Neuharth
No one can be guaranteed success without failures along the way. But one thing that guarantees failure is never taking action.
~ Unknown
What can any of us do with his talent but try to develop his vision, so that through frequent failures we may learn better what we have missed in the past.
~ William Carlos Williams
Negative results are just what I want. They're just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don't.
~ Thomas A. Edison
To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare to fail... failure is his world and the shrink from it desertion
~ Marcel Proust
If you start thinking that only your biggest and shiniest moments count, you're setting yourself up to feel like a failure most of the time.
~ Chris Hadfield
Seeming failure is not of the law of satyagrahabut of incompetence of the satyagrahi by whatever cause induced.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Success simple disciplines, practiced every day, while failure a few errors in judgment, repeated every day. Choose to succeed.
~ Jim Rohn
If one cannot accept failure and scorn, how is he to make his art? It's like wanting to go to heaven without dying.
~ Russell Edson
Success is somebody else's failure.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
THE ONLY REAL FAILURE IS TO FAIL OTHERS.
~ Philip K. Dick
Good subjects must feel guilty. The guilt begins as a feeling of failure. The good autocrat provides many opportunities for failure in the populace.
~ Frank Herbert