Famous Failure Quotes
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If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then give up. There’s no use being a damn fool about it.
—W.C. Fields -
If at first you do succeed, try, try not to be insufferable.
—Franklin P. Jones -
The probability of success is difficult to estimate; but if we never search, the probability of success is zero.
—Giuseppe Cocconi and Philip Morrison in “Searching for Interstellar Communications” (1959) -
If you are not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re playing it safe.
—Woody Allen -
Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive.
—Scott Adams, creator of the Dilbert comic strip -
The war in Vietnam is going very well and will succeed.
—Robert McNamara, U.S. Secretary of Defense, January 1963 -
I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.
—Herbert Bayard Swope -
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
—Winston S. Churchill -
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
—Thomas A. Edison