Failure Quotes, Proverbs & Sayings - Page 20



Find a job you love and you’ll never have to work a day in your life.
Robert Mondavi (Third secret of success)

If at first you don’t succeed, try try again. Then quit. No sense being a damn fool about it.
W. C. Fields

Sentimentality is a failure of feeling.
Wallace Stevens

There is always time for failure.
John Mortimer

The only safety for the defeated is to expect no safety.
Virgil

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

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

The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere.
Frank Swinnerton

The only reason my work seems to be eclectic up to a certain period is because I was a failure as an actor.
Hugh Grant

No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma – but we make out of them just what suits our purposes.
Alfred Adler

You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give.
E. O. Wilson

You can’t be a winner and be afraid to lose.
Charles Lynch

This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can’t be happy as a success, it’s very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.
Michael Korda

To err is human. To repeat error is of the Devil.
Seneca

To stumble twice against the same stone is a proverbial disgrace.
Cicero

The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.
Pearl S. Buck

If all this happened to you what paradigm might you develop? How might that paradigm affect you in terms of your life from that point on? What does this tell you about Abe? There are no failures, only lessons to be learned.
Oprah Winfrey

War remains the decisive human failure.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.
George Soros

He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
Herman Melville

Show me a good loser, and I’ll show you a loser.
Carter

Past failures are guideposts to success.
Anonymous

Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail their failure must be but a challenge to others.
Amelia Earhart

There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.
Andrew Carnegie

I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot.. when you think about the consequences you always think of a negative result.
Michael Jordan

Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory.
Anonymous

We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free. Tom Robbins Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.
Bruce Barton

Results! Why man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won’t work.
Thomas A. Edison

As kids we’re not taught how to deal with success; we’re taught how to deal with failure. If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. If at first you succeed, then what?
Charlie Sheen

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