Quotes About Repeated Failure

#1. Many people dream of success. To me, success can only be achieved through repeated failure and introspection.

Soichiro Honda

#2. If failure is not an option, neither is success. Innovation is just repeated failure till you come up with something that works.

Seth Godin

#3. Our repeated failure to fully act as we would wish must not discourage us. It is the sincere intention that is the essential thing, and this will in time release us from the bondage of habits which at present seem almost insuperable.

Thomas Troward

#4. Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success

Eric Hoffer

#5. Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward towards success.

C.S. Lewis

#6. It's the inner life that fucks up relationships.

Glen Duncan

#7. Every great improvement has come after repeated failures. Virtually nothing comes out right the first time. Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.

Charles Kettering

#8. I've read there is no such thing as a single tear, that old poetic trope. And perhaps there isn't, since hers was simply a companion to my own.

Elizabeth Kostova

#9. More people have done good in the name of God than any other way

Dennis Prager

#10. Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.

Jim Rohn

#11. Truth is only sweet to the ears only after a person is sick of drinking the vinegar of repeated failures.

Orrin Woodward

#12. Real invention is a process of repeated, crushing failure that leads, very rarely, to a success. If you want to succeed faster, there's nothing for it but to fail faster and better.

Cory Doctorow

#13. When love wins, then it wins in fact only through love. But those who love cannot guarantee the victory of love. One can believe in the victory of love only in the sense that one believes in the identity of God and love.

Eberhard Jungel

#14. I don't find that writing about parts of my life had much effect except in some cases to improve my memory. To get into parts of the past I want to recall very vividly, I use a form of directed meditation.

Marge Piercy

#15. If somebody in the crowd spits at you, you've got to swallow it.

Gary Lineker

#16. Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Jim Rohn

#17. If failure isn't an option, then success isn't either. Success is just failure repeated until it works.

Seth Godin

#18. This free will business is a bit terrifying anyway. It's almost pleasanter to obey, and make the most of it.

Ugo Betti

#19. If your hair has never given you any trouble, if you've never had huge fights with your mother about it, then you might not have a story to tell. But I think most people do.

Elizabeth Benedict

#20. I've got to say, I enjoy a good suit. Something about a really well-tailored suit; I like it.

Reid Scott

#21. Success simple disciplines, practiced every day, while failure a few errors in judgment, repeated every day. Choose to succeed.

Jim Rohn

#22. Right now, me getting killed would be redundant.
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You could stab a knife right through my heart and you'd be too late.
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Right now, getting killed would be a breath of spring.

Chuck Palahniuk

#23. Urging humans to be superhumans, on pain of death and torture, is the urging of terrible self-abasement at their repeated and inevitable failure to keep the rules.

Christopher Hitchens

#24. It's amazing - and poignant - to think that Leonardo (da Vinci)did consider himself as something of a failure. He didn't believe that he had achieved everything he might have done. His notebooks have a repeated refrain: 'Tell me if I ever did a thing.

Ross King