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Quotes About Failure

If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.
~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Great marketing only makes a bad product fail faster.
~ David Ogilvy
Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.
~ Shakti Gawain
There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.
~ John Keats
There is a glory in a great mistake.
~ Nathalia Crane
To have success, you can't let failure stop you. To have great success, you can't let success stop you.
~ Robert Breault
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure.
~ Bryant H. McGill
The reason that so many fail to find happiness is that they fail to find gratitude.
~ Rasheed Ogunlaru
Marriages are more likely to fail when one partner not only does not mirror the other's expressions of happiness, but instead shows expressions of contempt.
~ Allan Pease
My happiness is marred only by my failure to attain it.
~ Mary Ruefle
12% of dreams create jobs. 88% of jobs destroy dreams.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Sometimes I succeed, sometimes I fail, but everyday is a clean state and a fresh opportunity.
~ Gretchen Rubin
All communication is a sign of failure. If everybody is pleased with the situation, then there is no need for communication.
~ Peter Gärdenfors
Wealth is a means to an end, not the end itself. As a synonym for health and happiness, it has had a fair trial and failed dismally.
~ John Galsworthy
I really don't know how to be anyone else, and whenever I try to be anyone else, I fail miserably. Or I disappoint myself. It doesn't build my self-esteem, and it doesn't help me grow me at all.
~ Queen Latifah
Science and psychology have isolated the one prime cause for success or failure in life. It is the hidden self-image you have of yourself.
~ Bob Proctor
While 'The Owner's Manual' is not a formula for guaranteed success by any means, we're confident it will help reduce the failure rate of most startups that use our Customer Development process.
~ Steve Blank
[E]conomic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for the laws of economics
~ Ludwig von Mises
You have to look at the history of the Middle East in particular. It has been one of failure and frustration, of feudalism and tribalism.
~ Alexander Haig
The longest suicide note in history.
~ Gerald Kaufman
Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.
~ H.L. Mencken
I know I'm one of the biggest busts in NBA history...
~ Greg Oden
Everything was going my way. I was happily marching into the history books. Then it all just fell apart.
~ George Michael