Famous Quotes
"It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might has well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default."
More quotes about Failure
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"Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."
Theodore Roosevelt on Failure -
"I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying."
Michael Jordan on Failure -
"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 on Failure -
"My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure."
Abraham Lincoln on Failure -
"Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important."
Steve Jobs on Failure
More quotes by J. K. Rowling
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"Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young."
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"The best of us must sometimes eat our words."
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"I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had."
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"The middle class is so funny, it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny."
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"No, there is literally nothing on the business side that I wouldn't sacrifice in a heartbeat to have an extra couple of hours' writing. Nothing."