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Quotations about failure

Amelia EarhartPlease know that I am aware of the hazards. I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be a challenge to others.

 - Amelia Earhart

Tags:   danger  failure  women  

Winston ChurchillSuccess is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

 - Winston Churchill

Tags:   courage  failure  success  

Understanding that you can't truly take credit for your successes, nor truly blame others for their failures will humble you and make you more compassionate. Empathy is intuitive, but is also something you can work on, intellectually.

 - Tim Minchin

Tags:   compassion  empathy  failure  success  

Jim RohnSuccess is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day; while failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day. It is the accumulative weight of our disciplines and our judgments that leads us to either fortune or failure.

 - Jim Rohn

Tags:   failure  judgment  success  

Abdul KalamDon't take rest after your first victory because if you fail in second, more lips are waiting to say that your first victory was just luck.

 - A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

Tags:   failure  mistakes  victory  

Richard FeynmanYou have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It's their mistake, not my failing.

 - Richard Feynman

ConfuciusOur greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

 - Confucius

Tags:   failure  inspiration  perseverance  

I am convinced that attitude is the key to success or failure in almost any of life's endeavors. Your attitude, your perspective, your outlook, how you feel about yourself, how you feel about other people - determines your priorities, your actions, your values. Your attitude determines how you interact with other people and how you interact with yourself.

 - Carolyn Warner

Tags:   attitude  failure  success  values  

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

 - Thomas Edison

Tags:   failure  

Marilyn MonroeI'm a failure as a woman. My men expect so much of me, because of the image they've made of me -- and that I've made of myself -- as a sex symbol. They expect bells to ring and whistles to whistle, but my anatomy is the same as any other woman's and I can't live up to it.

 - Marilyn Monroe

Tags:   expectations  failure  sex  women  

Dean AlfangeI do not choose to be a common man. It is my right to be uncommon -- if I can. I seek opportunity -- not security. I do not wish to be a citizen, humbled and dulled by having the state look after me. I want to take the calculated risk; to dream and to build, to fail and to succeed. I refuse to barter incentive for a dole. I prefer the challenges of life to the guaranteed existence; the thrill of fulfillment to the stale calm of utopia. I will not trade freedom for beneficence nor dignity for a handout. I will never cower before any master nor bend to any threat. It is my heritage to stand erect, proud and unafraid; to think and act for myself, enjoy the benefit of my creations, and to face the world boldly and say, this I have done. All this is what it means to be an American.

 - Dean Alfange

Fred RogersSome days, doing "the best we can" may still fall short of what we would like to be able to do, but life isn't perfect on any front, and doing what we can with what we have is the most we should expect of ourselves or anyone else.

 - Fred Rogers

Tags:   failure  perfection  

Ralph Waldo EmersonDo not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little coarse, and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice? Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.

 - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tags:   experiments  failure  persistence  

David GogginsEverything in life is a mind game! Whenever we get swept under by life's dramas, large and small, we are forgetting that no matter how bad the pain gets, no matter how harrowing the torture, all bad things end.

 - David Goggins

Tags:   challenges  failure  resilience