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Quotes on Failure


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Some Inspiring Quotes on  Failure

There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought. -  Laurence J. Peter

Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn’t work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach.- Roger Von Oech

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm. – Winston Churchill

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. – Winston Churchill

I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. - Thomas Alva Edison

We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery. - Samuel Smiles

It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done. – Samuel Smiles

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. – Robert F. Kennedy

Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat. – Ralph Ellison

But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it’s better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you’re fighting for. – Paulo Coelho

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to er – Mohandas K. Gandhi

Life’s real failure is when you do not realize how close you were to success when you gave up.

Success builds character, failure reveals it - Dave Checkett

Try and fail, but don’t fail to try.  – Stephen Kaggwa

The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure. - Sven Goran Eriksson

I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed. – Michael Jordan

Failure is not falling down but refusing to get up.  – Chinese Proverbs

A man may fall many times, but he won’t be a failure until he says that someone pushed him. – Elmer G. Letterman

To be wrong is nothing unless you continue to remember it – Confucius

If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative.  - Woody Allen

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing. – George Bernard Shaw

Last but not least – If You‘ve Never Failed, You‘ve Never Lived



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  • a student

    its 4.30 am and i just bombed a really important final at one of the top universities, where everything is super competitive and everyone is smarter than you. I'm still up because I'm prepared for the same results in 4 and a half hours and then later this day, with my other finals. These quotes make me feel better about what is to come, so thanks for compiling them.

  • a student

    its 4.30 am and i just bombed a really important final at one of the top universities, where everything is super competitive and everyone is smarter than you. I'm still up because I'm prepared for the same results in 4 and a half hours and then later this day, with my other finals. These quotes make me feel better about what is to come, so thanks for compiling them.

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