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Quotes About Failure

The risk of failure is part of the fun of what I do.
~ Paul Simon
The only thing wrong with the U.S. economy is the failure of the Republican Party to play Santa Claus.
~ Unknown
I wouldn't have been what you'd call a champion if I had accepted failure when it first came, if I had looked at it and said, 'Well, that's it.'
~ Unknown
The gain isn't counted to the recluse and inactive that, having nothing to measure themselves by and never being tested by failure, they simmer and soak perpetually in conscious complacency.
~ Alice James
People will still make great art, but I think it's good to assume you will always be a failure. People were believing the opposite.
~ Wade Guyton
I knew that there were several, among African-American leaders, who had been put out by me because of my failure or reluctance to endorse Sen. Kerry
~ Rodney Alexander
To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
Experiment is the expected failure to deliberately learn something.
~ Scott Berkun
Doubt is one of the main paths on the highway to failure.
~ Rick Pitino
It is a massive, undeniable failure and a heap of broken promises.
~ Reince Priebus
America was the worst place in the world in which to fail, fall sick, get old or die, because then your problems had crystallised into the unforgivable sin. Failure.
~ Evelyn Anthony
Failure's hard. There's no way around. Bombing on stage never feels great. You feel judged, you feel alone. But then when your performance works, it's transcendent.
~ Mike Birbiglia
We must acknowledge, of course, that what looks like failure to us Americans outside the privileged elite may not actually be failure for our overlords.
~ Sheldon Richman
What the world calls failure, I call learning.
~ Susan Vreeland
You can't succeed unless you've got failure, especially creatively.
~ Michael Eisner
So we gave up. I'd finally had enough of chasing after a ghost who did not want to be seen. We'd failed, maybe, but some mysteries aren't meant to be solved.
~ John Green, Looking for Alaska
I enjoy the fun of failure. It's fun to fail, I kept repeating. It's part of being ambitious; it's part of being creative. If something is worth doing, it's worth doing badly
~ Gretchen Rubin
Socialism has been an abject failure across the face of the globe, millions have suffered under socialism, and yet we're not doing an effective job communicating that.
~ Ted Cruz
The systemic failure in the media in covering ISIS is that the majority of reporters are doing it in a semaphore fashion.
~ Unknown
Greatest danger is not failure, but be successful and not know why.
~ James C. Collins
The Republicans are calling the Democrats' plan to have a deadline for US troop withdrawal from Iraq an 'admission of failure', as opposed to the Republican plan which is 'failure without admission'.
~ Jon Stewart
By the end of the first decade of writing, I considered myself a confirmed failure in the eyes of the world.
~ Ben Fountain
No failure means no risk, which means nothing new
~ Richard Branson
Failures lies concealed in every success in every failure.
~ Eckhart Tolle