Failing Quotes - Page 5

• Failure is so important. We speak about success all the time. It is the ability to resist failure or use failure that often leads to greater success. I've met people who don't want to try for fear of failing.

  J. K. Rowling

  Failure, People, Important

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• Show me a thoroughly satisfied man - and I will show you a failure.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Success, Educational, Failure

  "The Diary and Sundry Observations of Thomas Alva Edison". Book by Thomas A. Edison, 1948.

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• Everyone is your best friend when you are successful. Make sure that the people that you surround yourself with are also the people that you are not afraid of failing with.

  Paula Abdul

  Friendship, Best Friend, Successful

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• If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.

  Woody Allen

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Shakespeare, Woody Allen And A Certain Qantas A380" by Christine Negroni, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 23, 2012.

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• Better than succeeding little by little is failing at one go.

  Jose Bergamin

  Littles, Succeed

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  Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

  Truman Capote

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Truman Capote, M. Thomas Inge (1987). “Truman Capote: Conversations”, p.189, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• It's not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.

  Jimmy Carter

  Inspirational, Morning, Failure

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• Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Courage, Failure, Humility

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Very few of the great leaders ever get through their careers without failing, sometimes dramatically.

  Phil Crosby

  Drama, Careers, History

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  I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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• Losers quit when they fail. Winners fail until they succeed.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Success, Failure

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• There's nothing wrong with failing if you learn from it, and I've failed out here plenty.

  Trent Dilfer

  Sports, Plenty, Ifs

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• It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

  Charles Kettering

  Life, Tattoo, Art

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• The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.

  Charles Kettering

  Success, Failure, Science

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• It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Money, Political, Politics

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• Failure does not exist. Failure is simply someone else's opinion of how a certain act should have been completed. Once you believe that no act must be performed in any specific other-directed way, then failing becomes impossible.

  Wayne Dyer

  Life, Cheating, Believe

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  Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.

  Og Mandino

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Og Mandino (2011). “The Greatest Salesman in the World”, p.25, Bantam

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• Where the suspect poses no immediate threat to the officer and no threat to others, the harm resulting from the failing to apprehend him does not justify the use of deadly force to do so.

  Byron White

  Doe, Use, Reincarnation

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• Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.

  Alexander Pope

  Pride, Vices, Haughtiness

  Alexander Pope (1835). “The works of Alexander Pope; with a memoir of the author, notes [&c.] by G. Croly”, p.66

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• No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others; or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Business, Educational, Needs

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• Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "From Telegraph to Light Bulb with Thomas Edison". Book by Deborah Headstrom-Page, 2007.

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• Succeeding is not really a life experience that does that much good. Failing is a much more sobering and enlightening experience.

  Michael Eisner

  Life, Failure, Experience

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• Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Inspirational, Motivational, Moving On

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• * We have come this far always believing
  that justice would somehow prevail.
  This is the burden, this is the promise,
  and THIS is why we will not fail.

  Peter Yarrow

  Believe, Failure, Justice

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