Quotes with failure

  • Total failure isn't something I want to spend a lot of time envisioning. I'm pretty sure I'll recognize it if it comes.
  • Ignorance of God's prophetic outline, failure to know God's program for the Church, the nations, and Israel, is the cause of the overwhelming amount of error and misunderstanding of the events of the future.
  • The worst time was 1983. Love and life and everything went wrong. I reached absolute rock bottom. I saw the Minotaur at the bottom of the abyss. I learnt of the harshness of the world and its impartiality to human failure.
  • No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.
  • 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 towards success.
  • The man who has done his level best, and who is conscious that he has done his best, is a success, even though the world may write him down as a failure.
  • Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.
  • The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
  • The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide.
  • In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.
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  • Winston Churchill Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Christopher Morley A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
    Christopher Morley
    American Novelist, Journalist, Poet (1890 - 1957)
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  • Florence Scovel Shinn Every great work, every great 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
    American artist, writer
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  • William Faulkner All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
    William Faulkner
    American writer (1897 - 1962)
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  • Dorothea Brande 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 towards success.
    Dorothea Brande
    American writer and editor (1893 - 1948)
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  • Oscar Wilde Ambition is the last refuge of failure.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Norman Vincent Peale 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
    American minister and author (1898 - 1993)
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  • Edward Dahlberg Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.
    Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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  • Napoleon Hill Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Henry Ford Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
    Henry Ford
    American industrialist (1863 - 1947)
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  • Og Mandino Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.
    Og Mandino
    American author (1923 - 1996)
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  • William Saroyan Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.
    William Saroyan
    Armenian-American novelist, playwright, and writer (1908 - 1981)
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller Lack of knowledge concerning all the factors and the failure to include them in our integral imposes false conclusions.
    Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975)
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Abraham Joshua Heschel Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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  • Dr. Marcus Bach Success, or failure, very often arrives on wings that seem mysterious to us.
    Dr. Marcus Bach
    American philosopher, teacher, ordained minister, (1901 - )
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  • Walter Lippmann The disesteem into which moralists have fallen is due at bottom to their failure to see that in an age like this one the function of the moralist is not to exhort men to be good but to elucidate what the good is. The problem of sanctions is secondary.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • Sir Max Beerbohm There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.
    Sir Max Beerbohm
    British Actor (1872 - 1956)
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • Elbert Hubbard A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • B. F. Skinner A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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