Failure Quotes: Embracing Life's Lessons (Page 12)

"Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement"

Florence Scovel Shinn, Artist

"Failure is a word unknown to me"

Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Politician

"Most of the work performed by a development engineer results in failure"

Koichi Tanaka, Scientist

"Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity"

Gary Ryan Blair

"But if you have a solid walk with the Lord, then you won't fear that failure"

Cliff Richard, Musician

"When I got Jacob's Latter, I was nervous because I felt I wasn't allowed to fail. I felt that they were waiting for one little failure and that would prove them right and I'd be,"out of there.""

Elizabeth Pena, Actress

"Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period"

Felicity Kendal, Actress

"I think you can learn as much from success as you can from failure"

Corey Hart, Musician

"People in the business will stay with you through drugs and alcohol and divorces and insanity and everything else, but you have a failure, pal, and they don't want to know nothing about you!"

Don Johnson, Actor

"War is failure of diplomacy"

John Dingell, Politician

"You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. This is done by making an affirmation which "clicks.""

Florence Scovel Shinn, Artist

"With engineering, I view this year's failure as next year's opportunity to try it again. Failures are not something to be avoided. You want to have them happen as quickly as you can so you can make progress rapidly"

Gordon Moore, Businessman

"The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same"

Colin R. Davis

"We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes - understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success"

Arianna Huffington, Journalist

"A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection"

Arthur Bloch

"A Failure in this Duty did once involve our Nation in all the Horrors of Rebellion and Civil War"

Charles Inglis, Clergyman

"I've probably earned the right to screw up a few times. I don't want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about"

Emma Watson, Actress

"Failure is always an option"

Adam Savage, Entertainer

"I didn't fear failure. I expected failure"

Amy Tan, Novelist

"Young players need freedom of expression to develop as creative players... they should be encouraged to try skills without fear of failure"

Arsene Wenger, Coach

"The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape"

Alice James, Writer

"Failure means a stripping away of the inessential"

J. K. Rowling, Author

"In high school, in sport, I had a coach who told me I was much better than I thought I was, and would make me do more in a positive sense. He was the first person who taught me not to be afraid of failure"

Mike Krzyzewski, Coach

"Remember that failure is an event, not a person"

Zig Ziglar, Author

"I've tried to handle winning well, so that maybe we'll win again, but I've also tried to handle failure well. If those serve as good examples for teachers and kids, then I hope that would be a contribution I have made to sport. Not just basketball, but to sport"

Mike Krzyzewski, Coach

"I think some parents now look at a youngster failing as the final thing. It's a process, and failure is part of the process. I would like it if the teacher and the parents would connect more. I think that used to be, but we're losing a little bit of that right now"

Mike Krzyzewski, Coach

"Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street"

Zig Ziglar, Author

"I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy"

Tony Robbins, Author

"Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought"

Joseph Barbera, Cartoonist

"The success and the failure are not my concern, but His"

Joseph Barber Lightfoot, Theologian

"It was an interesting question as to whether the BBC had a future in the digital world, and what form of market failure could justify the licence fee system"

Gavyn Davies, Businessman

"All war represents a failure of diplomacy"

Tony Benn, Politician

"Heaven knows that I have done all that a mortal could do, to save the people, and the failure was not my fault, but the fault of others"

Davy Crockett, Explorer

"This dullness of vision regarding the importance of the general welfare to the individual is the measure of the failure of our schools and churches to teach the spiritual significance of genuine democracy"

Henry A. Wallace, Vice President

"Before this government came to power, many failing schools were simply allowed to drift on in a pattern of continuing failure. The government is determined to break that pattern and is successfully doing so"

Estelle Morris, Politician

"We do not realise that we are children of eternity. If we did, then success would be no success, and failure would be no failure to us"

Joseph Barber Lightfoot, Theologian

"American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society"

Thomas Babington, Poet

"I think success has no rules, but you can learn a great deal from failure"

Jean Kerr, Playwright

"Something is wanting, and something must be done, or we shall be involved in all the horror of failure, and civil war without a prospect of its termination"

Henry Knox, Soldier

"My biggest failure is I have too many to talk about"

Dean Kamen, Inventor

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