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List of fail quotes and phrases from famous people such as Winston Churchill, Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw and others. My favorite phrase is the one that says "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work", lol!

Fail Phrases

A failure is a man who has blundered but is not capable of cashing in on the experience. Elbert Hubbard.

A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself. May Sarton.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing. George Bernard Shaw.

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm. Winston Churchill.

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

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

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

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know. William Saroyan.

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure: which is: Try to please everybody. Herbert B. Swope.

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. Thomas Alva Edison.

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.

It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all. Edward de Bono.

It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success. Havelock Ellis.

It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own. Jessamyn West.

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death. Anais Nin.

Love the moment. Flowers grow out of dark moments. Therefore, each moment is vital. It affects the whole. Life is a succession of such moments and to live each, is to succeed. Corita Kent.

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. Thomas Alva Edison.

Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus. Wallace Stegner.

My will shall shape the future. Whether I fail or succeed shall be no man's doing but my own. I am the force; I can clear any obstacle before me or I can be lost in the maze. My choice; my responsibility; win or lose, only I hold the key to my destiny. Elaine Maxwell.

Not doing more than the average is what keeps the average down. William M. Winans.

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

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. Winston Churchill.

The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes. Madame de Stael.

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

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.

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