failure Quotes

“Failure is a state of mind. It’s like one of those sand traps an ant lion digs. You keep sliding back. Takes one hell of a jump to get out of it.”

― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

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“What we have not chosen we cannot consider either our merit or our failure.”

― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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“There is nothing which is so weak for working purposes as this enormous importance attached to immediate victory. There is nothing that fails like success.”

― G. K. Chesterton, Heretics

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“Where others have failed, I will not fail.”

― Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea

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“In all failures, the beginning is certainly the half of the whole.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

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“When reason fails, the devil helps!”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

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“Nothing is more usual than to feel that others have shared in our failures, just as it is an ordinary reaction to forget those who have shared in our achievements.”

― Truman Capote, In Cold Blood

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“We are unjust towards these great men who attempt the future, when they fail.”

― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

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“My past is everything I failed to be.”

― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

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“It is not difficult to be alone if you are poor and a failure. An artist is always alone—if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.”

― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

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