failure quotes

“Almost everything: all external expectations, all pride all fear of embarrassment or failure. These tings just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.”

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

— Charlie Chaplin

“Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”

— Thomas Alva Edison

“One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.”

— Abraham Maslow

“They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?”

— Fidel Castro

“If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.”

— Jane Austen

“Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.”

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”

— Winston Churchill

“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.”

— Winston Churchill

“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

“Please know that I am aware of the hazards. I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be a challenge to others.”

— Amelia Earhart

“Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.”

“Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success.”

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

— Dale Carnegie

“The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.”

“I'm a failure as a woman. My men expect so much of me, because of the image they've made of me—and that I've made of myself—as a sex symbol. They expect bells to ring and whistles to whistle, but my anatomy is the same as any other woman's and I can't live up to it”

— Marilyn Monroe

“Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.”

— Coco Chanel

“All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing. ”

“Well first of all it's a business and it's a tough business, and you have to have the strength to survive all the set backs all the failures that make this a mean business, that's getting meaner and meaner every year in my opinion. ”

— Robert Redford

“Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.”

— Joanne Kathleen Rowling

“I'm hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure. ”

— George Washington Bush

“Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?”

— Ernest Hemingway

“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

“There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.”

— William James

“We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.”

— Rudyard Kipling

“Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.”

— Clive Staples Lewis

“The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I, therefore, intend to oppose the effort to increase America's debt.”

— Barack Obama

“In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.”

— Barack Obama

“The Bush Administration's failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world.”

— Barack Obama

“So while I will never minimize the costs involved in military action, I am convinced that a failure to act in Libya would have carried a far greater price for America.”

— Barack Obama

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