Failure Quotes: Embracing Life's Lessons (Page 3)

"War remains the decisive human failure"

"Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it"

"One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them"

Thomas Sowell, Economist

"Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day"

Jim Rohn, Businessman

"Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day"

Jim Rohn, Businessman

"The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism"

Earl Warren, Judge

"The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best"

George Eliot, Author

"There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows"

George Eliot, Author

"I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best"

George Eliot, Author

"Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure"

George Eliot, Author

"Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure"

Thomas Edison, Inventor

"My failure, during the first five or six years of my art training, to get set in the right direction, and the disappointment which it caused me, drove me the more persistently into writing as an alternative"

Laurence Housman, Playwright

"Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results"

William James, Philosopher

"In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure"

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Poet

"Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed"

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Actor

"If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless"

Robert H. Schuller, Clergyman

"Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet"

Robert H. Schuller, Clergyman

"If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style"

Quentin Crisp, Writer

"I believe in trusting men, not only once but twice - in giving a failure another chance"

James Cash Penney, Businessman

"If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure"

H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Author

"Not failure, but low aim, is crime"

James Russell Lowell, Poet

"Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime"

James Russell Lowell, Poet

"The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows"

Buddha, Leader

"That sense of failure, I don't know where people put it who don't write songs and aren't able to emote physically. It must go somewhere"

Sting, Musician

"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, Author

"Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities"

Walter Scott, Novelist

"Success isn't permanent and failure isn't fatal"

Mike Ditka, Coach

"Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are"

Norman Vincent Peale, Clergyman

"The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail"

Napoleon Hill, Writer

"Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself"

Charlie Chaplin, Actor

"Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another"

Napoleon Hill, Writer

"A minute's success pays the failure of years"

Robert Browning, Poet

"Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit"

Napoleon Hill, Writer

"Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo"

Camille Paglia, Author

"Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal"

Don Shula, Coach

"Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence"

Colin Powell, Statesman

"Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it"

Mia Hamm, Athlete

"It's how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success"

Charlotte Whitton, Politician

"It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second"

John Steinbeck, Author

"I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying"

Michael Jordan, Athlete

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