Failure Quotes: Embracing Life's Lessons

"Success and failure are equally disastrous"

Tennessee Williams, Dramatist

"I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure"

Anne Baxter, Actress

"The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success"

Paramahansa Yogananda, Leader

"A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience"

Elbert Hubbard, Writer

"A man may fall many times, but he won't be a failure until he says that someone pushed him"

Elmer G. Letterman, General

"It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes"

Anne Baxter, Actress

"There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure"

Colin Powell, Statesman

"Indecision and delays are the parents of failure"

George Canning, Statesman

"Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

"A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it"

Alexandre Dumas, Dramatist

"There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see"

Malcolm Muggeridge, Journalist

"Don't be afraid to fail. Don't waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures and go on to the next challenge. It's OK to fail. If you're not failing, you're not growing"

H. Stanley Judd, Author

"Ambition is the last refuge of the failure"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"The only real failure in life is the failure to try"

Anthony J. D'Angelo, Author

"All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure"

Jean-Paul Sartre, Philosopher

"War is a failure of human intelligence"

Patricia Sun, Author

"Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory"

Herbert Kaufman, Writer

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

"In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure"

Bill Cosby, Comedian

"One failure is worth seven and a half successes"

Eli Khamarov, Writer

"Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community"

H.G. Wells, Author

"Failure is success if we learn from it"

Malcolm Forbes, Publisher

"Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership"

Colin Powell, Statesman

"A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life"

Christopher Morley, Author

"Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success"

Dale Carnegie, Writer

"I think it's one of the main negative emotional ingredients that fuels show business, because there's so much at stake and the fear of failure looms large"

Garry Shandling, Comedian

"One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure"

John W. Gardner, Educator

"Even as far back as when I started acting at 14, I know I've never considered failure"

Jennifer Lawrence, Actress

"Philanthropic colonization is a failure. National colonization will succeed"

Theodor Herzl, Journalist

"Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature"

Phyllis Schlafly, Activist

"Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails"

Robert Half, Businessman

"A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else"

John Burroughs, Author

"So the poet, who wants to be something that he cannot be, and is a failure in plain life, makes up fictitious versions of his predicament that are interesting even to other persons because nobody is a perfect automobile salesman"

Allen Tate, Poet

"Failure has gone to his head"

Wilson Mizner, Dramatist

"Translation is the art of failure"

Umberto Eco, Novelist

"All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right about face which turns us from failure to success"

Dorthea Brande, Writer

"In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain"

Frederick William Robertson, Clergyman

"In the different voice of women lies the truth of an ethic of care, the tie between relationship and responsibility, and the origins of aggression in the failure of connection"

Carol Gilligan, Psychologist

"I saw why people died and how they died. I saw gunshot wounds and liver failure. It was a good learning experience, so I came regularly on weekends and holidays"

Michael Baden, Celebrity

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