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Boris Pasternak1 quote
I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them. — Boris Pasternak · 1958Charlie Kaufman1 quote
Do not worry about failure. Failure is a badge of honor. It means you risked failure. — Charlie Kaufman · 2011George Costanza1 quote
It all became very clear to me sitting out there today that every decision I've made in my entire life has been wrong. My life is the complete opposite of everything I want it to be. Every instinct I have, in every aspect of life, be it something to wear, something to eat-it's all been wrong. — George Costanza · 1994Graham Greene1 quote
Success is more dangerous than failure, (the ripples break over a wider coastline). — Graham Greene · 1980Homer Simpson1 quote
Kids, you tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is, never try. — Homer Simpson · 1990Jeff Winger1 quote
Because doing more than the minimum work is my definition of failing. — Jeff Winger · 2009John Keats1 quote
There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object. — John Keats · 1818Joseph Heller1 quote
Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, medication, depression, neurosis, and suicide. With failure comes failure. — Joseph Heller · 1975Michael Jordan1 quote
I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. — Michael Jordan · 1997Nick Cave1 quote
I think it's an essential fact for any performer or artist to fail as poignantly as they can succeed. — Nick Cave · 1983Patrick White1 quote
The mystery of life is not solved by success, which is an end in itself, but in failure, in perpetual struggle, in becoming. — Patrick White · 1957Samuel Beckett1 quote
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. — Samuel Beckett · 1989T.H. Huxley1 quote
There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life. — T.H. Huxley · 1870Theodore Roosevelt1 quote
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. — Theodore Roosevelt · 1899Walt Whitman1 quote
Have you heard that it was good to gain the day?
I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won. — Walt Whitman · 1855Walter Savage Landor1 quote
Of all failures, to fail in a witticism is the worst, and the mishap is the more calamitous in a drawn-out and detailed one. — Walter Savage Landor · 1825William Shakespeare1 quote
Some rise by sin and some by virtue fall. — William Shakespeare · 1616