“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
— Winston Churchill
Author: Winston Churchill
Category: failure
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Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but
“Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.”
— Edsger Dijkstra
Author: Edsger Dijkstra
Category: failure
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I have always been pushed by the
“I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.”
— Tennessee Williams
Author: Tennessee Williams
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Ambitious failure, magnificent failure, is a very
“Ambitious failure, magnificent failure, is a very good thing.”
— Guy Kawasaki
Author: Guy Kawasaki
Category: failure
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Success depends upon previous preparation, and without
“Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.”
— Confucius
Author: Confucius
Category: failure
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So it is in poetry. All we
“So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind that exhausts the imaginative capacity; if it fails to do this the failure will announce itself either in prose or in insignificant verse.”
— John Drinkwater
Author: John Drinkwater
Category: failure
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Nothing in this world can take the
“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.”
— Calvin Coolidge
Author: Calvin Coolidge
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I was convicted of three misdemeanors of
“I was convicted of three misdemeanors of willful failure to file a form.”
— Wesley Snipes
Author: Wesley Snipes
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All human actions are equivalent and all
“All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre
Author: Jean-Paul Sartre
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When an action is once done, it
“When an action is once done, it is right or wrong for ever; no accidental failure of its good or evil fruits can possibly alter that.”
— William Kingdon Clifford
Author: William Kingdon Clifford
Category: failure
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Heaven knows that I have done all
“Heaven knows that I have done all that a mortal could do, to save the people, and the failure was not my fault, but the fault of others.”
— Davy Crockett
Author: Davy Crockett
Category: failure
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