failure quotes

“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

“No matter how vast, how total, the failure of man here on earth, the work of man will be resumed elsewhere. War leaders talk of resuming operations on this front and that, but man's front embraces the whole universe.”

— Henry Miller

“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

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

— Colin Powell

“In other words, don't expect to always be great. Disappointments, failures and setbacks are a normal part of the lifecycle of a unit or a company and what the leader has to do is constantly be up and say 'we have a problem, let's go and get it'.”

— Colin Powell

“Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

“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

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

“I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.”

“Whether in success or in failure, I'm proud of every single movie I've ever directed.”

— Steven Spielberg

“All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

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