Failing Quotes

• Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Success, Courage

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• When you accept that you may fail, you can accomplish anything.

  Linda Kaplan Thaler

  May, Accepting, Accomplish

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  You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.

  Beverly Sills

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Incredible Quotations: 230 Thought-Provoking Quotes with Prompts to Spark Students' Writing, Thinking, and Discussion". Book by Jacqueline Sweeney, 1997.

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• I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Perseverance

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• Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.

  Mary Tyler Moore

  Inspirational, Positive, Courage

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• Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

  Charles Kettering

  Motivational, Positive, Faith

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  I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  "I Can't Accept Not Trying : Michael Jordan on the Pursuit of Excellence". Book by Michael Jordan (p. 129), 1994.

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• I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.

  Anne Baxter

  Motivational, Failure, Inspiration

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• Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

  Julie Andrews

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

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• Every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success.

  Napoleon Hill

  Change, Inspiring, Success

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Become Your Best”, p.187, Jaico Publishing House

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• When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Inspirational, Success, Graduation

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• Just remember, you can't climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Failure, Funny Graduation, Pockets

  "Six Rules on How to Be Successful". Speech at the University of Southern California, www.graduationwisdom.com. May 15, 2009.

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• Failure is delay, but not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead-end street.

  William Arthur Ward

  Failure, Delay, Detours

  William Arthur Ward (1968). “Thoughts of a Christian Optimist: The Words of William Arthur Ward”

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• The greatest accomplishment is not in never failing, but in rising again after you fall.

  Vince Lombardi

  Motivational, Success, Failure

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• To try and fail is at least to learn; to fail to try is to suffer the inestimable loss of what might have been.

  Chester Barnard

  Inspirational, Failure, Learning

  Chester Irving Barnard (1968). “The Functions of the Executive”, p.26, Harvard University Press

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  Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

  Henry Ford

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Not failure, but low aim, is crime.

  James Russell Lowell

  Inspirational, Fear, Educational

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.382

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• As I said there is nothing wrong with failing. Pick yourself up and try it again. You never are going to know how good you really are until you go out and face failure.

  Henry Kravis

  Failure, Trying, Faces

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• A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.

  Michelangelo

  Beautiful, Art, Pain

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• Failing to find in women exactly the same kind of sexual emotions, as they find in themselves, men have concluded that there are none there at all.

  Havelock Ellis

  Men, Emotion, Kind

  Havelock Ellis (2013). “On Life and Sex: Essays of Love & Virtue”, p.32, Elsevier

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• Failing to be there when a man wants her is a woman's greatest sin, except to be there when he doesn't want her.

  Pope Paul VI

  Failure, Men, Want

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• Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

  Robert Kennedy

  Inspirational, Success, Encouraging

  Robert F. Kennedy (1967). “To seek a newer world”, Doubleday Books

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• One fails forward toward success.

  Charles Kettering

  Inspirational, Business, Failure

  Charles Franklin Kettering (1961). “Prophet of progress: selections from the speeches of Charles F. Kettering”

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• I am consumed with the fear of failing. Reaching deep down and finding confidence has made all my dreams come true.

  Arsenio Hall

  Dream, Down And, Reaching

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• What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Time, Memories, Age

  Points of View Ch. 1

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