Failure Quotes And Sayings

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“So why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me. Had I really succeeded at anything else, I might never have found the determination to succeed in the one arena I believed I truly belonged. I was set free, because my greatest fear had been realized, and I was still alive, and I still had a daughter whom I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.
– J.K. Rowling

“We are all failures- at least the best of us are.”
– J.M. Barrie

“My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.”
– Jack Kerouac

“Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.”
– James A. Froude

“Not failure, but low aim, is crime.”
– James Russell Lowell

“Failure teaches success.”
– Japanese Saying

“You’re not obligated to win. You’re obligated to keep trying. To the best you can do everyday.”
– Jason Mraz

“Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.”
– Jawaharlal Nehru

“A bad day for your ego is a great day for your soul.”
– Jillian Michaels

“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

“It’s not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.”
– Jimmy Carter

“A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.”
– John Burroughs

“A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.”
– John Burroughs

“Go back a little to leap further.”
– John Clarke

“I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.”
– John Keats

“I was never afraid of failure, for I would sooner fail than not be among the best.”
– John Keats

“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

“Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.”
– John Wooden

“Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.”
– Jules Renard

“Success, after all, loves a witness, but failure can’t exist without one.”
– Junot Díaz

“Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength.”
– Karen Armstrong

“If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original.”
– Ken Robinson

“Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.”
– Lance Armstrong

“People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.”
– Lao Tzu

“Don’t be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.”
– Lily Tomlin

“Don’t fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.”
– Louis E. Boone

“Failure is success if we learn from it.”
– Malcolm Forbes

“In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.”
– Malcolm X

“Just because you fail once doesn’t mean you’re gonna fail at everything.”
– Marilyn Monroe

“For every failure, there’s an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.”
– Mary Kay Ash

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