10 Quotes on Failure

My reputation grows with every failure.
George Bernard Shaw

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Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.
James Russell Lowell

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Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
John Dewey

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You won't skid if you stay in a rut.
Kin Hubbard

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There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
Laurence J. Peter

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Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Oscar Wilde

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Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.
Pearl S. Buck

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Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Robert F. Kennedy

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It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.
Samuel Smiles

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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