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He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
Paul Tillich on failure

Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them.
Doug Coupland on failure

A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
Christian Nestell Bovee on failure

One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
John W. Gardner on failure

My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.
Harry S. Truman on failure

Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.
James Russell Lowell on failure

Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength.
Karen Armstrong on failure

No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma - but we make out of them just what suits our purposes.
Alfred Adler on failure

The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.
Michael Korda on failure

No matter how vast, how total, the failure of man here on earth, the work of man will be resumed elsewhere. War leaders talk of resuming operations on this front and that, but man's front embraces the whole universe.
Henry Miller on failure

I have a lack of fear, whereas in the past the fear of failure was a powerful motivator. Anyway, I have great expectations for the future, but I just don't know if I'm the monarch of all I survey.
Sylvester Stallone on failure

War remains the decisive human failure.
John Kenneth Galbraith on failure

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
Herbert Kaufman on failure

If Liberia has failed, then, it is no evidence of the failure of the Negro in government. It is merely evidence of the failure of slavery.
Carter G. Woodson on failure

Every adversity, every failure, and every heartache, carries with it the Seed of an equivalent or greater Benefit.
Napolean Hill on failure

However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow on failure

There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.
John Keats on failure

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 on failure

Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble.
Shahrukh Khan on failure

Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.
Amelia Earhart on failure