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Gitanjali http://www.spiritualbee.com/gitanjali-poems-of-tagore/ (1912)
Quotes about failure
page 2
"A Sketch of the Past" (written 1939, published posthumously)
“99% of failures come from people who make excuses.”
“Remember that failure is an event, not a person.”
See You at the Top (2000)
Variant: Failure is an event, not a person. Yesterday ended last night.
“Failure has been correctly identified as the line of least persistence.”
See You at the Top (2000)
“Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.”
Variant: Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.
“Failure is an event not a person”
Variant: Failing is an event, not a person. Yesterday ended last night.
Source: What Life Could Mean to You
“The gap between success and failure is reason based on reality.”
Quoted from his speech during the launch for his book https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reason_As_The_World_Masterpiece, "Reason as the World Masterpiece" https://www.amazon.co.uk/REASON-AS-WORLD-MASTERPIECE-UGANDAS/dp/9970652001 in Kampala, Book launch Speach https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKAoWtWgP2U (March 10 2021)
2020s
“He said that failures compos us more as compared to successes.”
About, Pride Of The Nation: Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
Is Truth Becoming Irrelevant to Conservatives? (December 5, 2016)
Speech to Conservative Central Council ("The Historic Choice") (20 March 1976) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/102990
Leader of the Opposition
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
Attributed to Winston Churchill in The Prodigal Project : Book I : Genesis (2003) by Ken Abraham and Daniel Hart, p. 224 and other places, though no source attribution is given. It actually derives from an advertising campaign for Budweiser beer in the late 1930s.
Misattributed
Variant: Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Source: http://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/09/03/success-final/
“Don't be afraid of failure. This is the way to succeed.”
“Wonder not at the failures, rather learn to marvel at success.”
Junglezen Sheru ( Page 89 )
Quoted from his first book https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Success_and_Failure_Based_on_Reason_and_Reality, "Success and Failure Based on Reason and Reality" https://www.amazon.co.uk/SUCCESS-FAILURE-BASED-REASON-REALITY/dp/9970983903/ on Amazon, P.96 (July 2018)
is something that sociologists of science and popular culture have yet to fully explain.
Paul Churchland. The Engine of Reason, the Seat of the Soul. (1st ed.). MIT Press. 1995. pp. 181: Talking about Freudian analysis.
Variant: You build on failure. You use it as a stepping sone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.
“The only guarantee for failure is to stop trying”
In an interview about his biography - "Untold Story Of A Mystery Prophet TB Joshua" https://www.modernghana.com/news/210061/untold-story-of-a-mystery-prophet-tb-joshua.html Modern Ghana (April 6 2009)
7 February 1945.
Disputed, The Testament of Adolf Hitler (1945)
Context: The white races did, of course, give some things to the natives, and they were the worst gifts that they could possibly have made, those plagues of our own modern world-materialism, fanaticism, alcoholism and syphilis. For the rest, since these peoples possessed qualities of their own which were superior to anything we could offer them, they have remained essentially unchanged. Where imposition by force was attempted, the results were even more disastrous, and common sense, realizing the futility of such measures, should preclude any recourse to their introduction. One solitary success must be conceded to the colonizers: everywhere they have succeeded in arousing hatred, a hatred that urges these peoples, awakened from their slumbers by us, to rise and drive us out. Indeed, it looks almost as though they had awakened solely and simply for that purpose! Can anyone assert that colonization has increased the number of Christians in the world? Where are those conversions en masse which mark the success of Islam? Here and there one finds isolated islets of Christians, Christians in name, that is, rather than by conviction; and that is the sum total of the successes of this magnificent Christian religion, the guardian of supreme Truth! Taking everything into consideration, Europe's policy of colonization has ended in a complete failure.
Source: The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck (2016), Chapter 1, “Don’t Try” (p. 11)
Source: Presidents of India, 1950-2003, P.108
Colin Powell in My American Journey (1995)
Misattributed
Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money-That the Poor and the Middle Class Do Not!
What I Believe (1938)
Context: On they go — an invincible army, yet not a victorious one. The aristocrats, the elect, the chosen, the Best People — all the words that describe them are false, and all attempts to organize them fail. Again and again Authority, seeing their value, has tried to net them and to utilize them as the Egyptian Priesthood or the Christian Church or the Chinese Civil Service or the Group Movement, or some other worthy stunt. But they slip through the net and are gone; when the door is shut, they are no longer in the room; their temple, as one of them remarked, is the holiness of the Heart's affections, and their kingdom, though they never possess it, is the wide-open world.
With this type of person knocking about, and constantly crossing one's path if one has eyes to see or hands to feel, the experiment of earthly life cannot be dismissed as a failure. But it may well be hailed as a tragedy, the tragedy being that no device has been found by which these private decencies can be transmitted to public affairs. As soon as people have power they go crooked and sometimes dotty as well, because the possession of power lifts them into a region where normal honesty never pays.
Source: Henri Fayol addressed his colleagues in the mineral industry, 1900, p. 908
“There is no safety. Only varying states of risk. And failure.”
Vorkosigan Saga, Brothers in Arms (1989)
As quoted in The World's Religions (1976) by Sir James Norman Dalrymple Anderson, p. 61
Tom Kenny Interview: The Voice of SpongeBob SquarePants http://www.denofgeek.com/us/tv/spongebob-squarepants/248119/tom-kenny-interview-the-voice-of-spongebob-squarepants (August 3, 2015)
“Success can only be achieved through repeated failure and introspection…”
“Failures are much more fun to hear about afterwards; they are not so funny at the time.”
The Emperor's Old Clothes
“If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.”
Kiichiro Toyoda in The Toyota Way, 2001: Quoted in: "Toyota quotes," New York Times, Feb. 10, 2008.
Comment by Kiichiro Toyoda after thieves had stolen the plans for a new loom from his father's workshop.
Source: Sources of Strength: Meditations on Scripture for a Living Faith
Source: Philosophy and Real Politics (2008), pp. 48-49.
Lords of the Press (1938)
Incorporates the famous observation of Joseph de Maistre that "every nation gets the government it deserves."
“Sticks and stones will break your bones, but failure will get you killed.”
Source: Narcissus in Chains
“Failure is only the opportunity more intelligently to begin again.”
“But he who neither thinks for himself nor learns from others, is a failure as a man.”
Source: Works and Days and Theogony
Source: Tropic of Cancer (1934), Chapter One
Context: Well, I'll take these pages and move on. Things are happening elsewhere. Things are always happening. It seems wherever I go there is drama. People are like lice - they get under your skin and bury themselves there. You scratch and scratch until the blood comes, but you can't get permanently deloused. Everywhere I go people are making a mess of their lives. Everyone has his private tragedy. It's in the blood now - misfortune, ennui, grief, suicide. The atmosphere is saturated with disaster, frustration, futility. Scratch and scratch, until there's no skin left. However, the effect upon me is exhilarating. Instead of being discouraged or depressed, I enjoy it. I am crying for more and more disasters, for bigger calamities, grander failures. I want the whole world to be out of whack, I want every one to scratch himself to death.
“If you don’t give up, You still have a Chance to Win. Giving up is a Great Failure.”
Source: Jack Ma Quotes That Will Change Your Life Forever https://www.yourselfquotes.com/jack-ma-quotes/
Source: The Australian Architects Offering Pro-Bono Design Services to Bushfire Survivors https://hivelife.com/architects-assist/.
“People who avoid failure also avoid success.”
Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money-That the Poor and the Middle Class Do Not!
“In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.”
“Nothing takes the heart out of a man more than the expectation of failure.”
Source: Assassin's Apprentice
Stanford v. Kentucky (1989) (plurality part, case later overruled by Roper); decided June 26, 1989.
1980s
On a Zane Lowe interview, 2014. source https://youtube.com/watch?v=9pF7bS_4JnE
Address by His Highness the Aga Khan at the Leadership and Diversity Conference, Gatineau, Canada (19 May 2004)
“I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.”
Variant: I can appect failure, but I cannot accept not trying.
“Self-belief does not necessarily ensure success, but self-disbelief assuredly spawns failure.”
[Self-efficacy: The exercise of control, Bandura, Albert, w:Albert Bandura, 1997, W. H. Freeman, New York, 9780716728504, http://books.google.com/books?id=eJ-PN9g_o-EC&printsec=frontcover&dq=bandura+isbn:9780716728504&hl=en&ei=HAwYTbKsLpTmsQPp8cCPCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCMQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false] (p. 77)
“Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.”
As quoted in Believing in Ourselves (1992) by Armand Eisen, p. 15
Religion had important place in his life is indicated in his admonishing Professor Selby (also a professor in the Deccan College) notes on a published ”Notes of Lectures on Butelr’s Anaology and Sermons" quoted in pages=105-106
Kiyokazu Washida. The Past, the Feminine, the Vain in Talking to Myself (2002), Ch. 2: The Feminine, or the Gap Which Cannot be Filled.
Bloodborne creator Hidetaka Miyazaki: ‘I didn’t have a dream. I wasn’t ambitious' https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/mar/31/bloodborne-dark-souls-creator-hidetaka-miyazaki-interview (March 31, 2015)
"Three favorite rules of thumb" Nimitz had printed on a card he kept on his desk, as quoted in LIFE magazine (10 July 1944)
“The man who is afraid to risk failure seldom has to face success.”
Source: Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court
“Failure is not fatal but failure to change might be.”
Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections on and Off the Court (1997)
“You are not a failure until you start blaming others for your mistakes”
Source: Wooden on Leadership: How to Create a Winning Organizaion
“You can't be held captive by the fear of failure or the fear of what people may say.”
New millennium, An Enjoyable Life Puzzling Over Modern Finance Theory, 2009
“I do feel one learns more from one's failures than from one's successes”
Sunday Times interview (1983)