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| Allens lag: När allt annat misslyckas, läs instruktionsboken. | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| Ambition: den misslyckades sista tillflykt. | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| Att försöka, det är bara början på ett stort jävla misslyckande. | Totalt Jävla Mörker |
| Att ha fel gör inget, om du inte fortsätter att komma ihåg det. | Konfucius (555 f.Kr.-479 f.Kr.) |
| Att lyckas är konsten att misslyckas utan att det märks. | Pex Tufvesson (1974-) |
| Bara fortsätt misslyckas. En dag kommer du misslyckas med det också. | Pex Tufvesson (1974-) |
| Bra folk är bra eftersom de fått sin visdom genom att misslyckas. Vi blir ju inte särskilt kloka av att lyckas. | William Saroyan (1908-1981) |
| Carlsons tröst: Det finns inga misslyckanden. De kan ju alltid användas som avskräckande exempel. | George Clooney (1961-) |
| Det enda misslyckandet är att inte ens försöka. | George Clooney (1961-) |
| Det finns inga misslyckanden, bara olika resultat. | Drottning Kristina (1626-1689) |
| Det är svårare att förlåta sig själv än sin nästa. | Drottning Kristina (1626-1689) |
| Du kan misslyckas många gånger, men du är inte misslyckad förrän du börjar skylla på andra. | W. B. |
| Ett misslyckande är alltid en händelse, aldrig en person. | W. B. |
| Ett misslyckande är alltid en händelse, inte en person. | The Times |
| Folk som åker i fängelse är inte bara förbrytare - de är definitionsmässigt förbrytare som har misslyckats. | The Times |
| Fort går det inte, men bra blir det..inte heller. | Hildegard Knef (1925-2002) |
| Framgång och misslyckande är mycket överskattade. Men misslyckanden ger dig åtminstone mer att prata om. | Hildegard Knef (1925-2002) |
| Jag har inte funnit nyckeln till framgång men nyckeln till misslyckande är att försöka vara alla till lags. | Bill Cosby (1937-) |
| Jag misslyckades inte 1000 gånger, glödlampan uppfanns i 1001 steg. | Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931) |
| Jag misslyckas hellre med heder än vinner genom fusk. | Sophocles (496 f.Kr.-406 f.Kr.) |
| Jag misslyckas hellre med någonting jag tycker om än når framgång med något jag avskyr. | Pex Tufvesson (1974-) |
| Jag sparar just nu till min andra miljon. Den första misslyckades. | Pex Tufvesson (1974-) |
| Jag tar varje tillfälle,att göra världen till ett härligt ställe,det är inte alltid jag lyckas så bra.Du får ha överseendeoch ta det hela med ditt ljuvliga leende,det är inte alltid som jag lyckas så bra. | Pex Tufvesson (1974-) |
| Man har hunnit ett gott stycke på vägen till framgång när man inser att misslyckande bara är en omväg. | Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977) |
| Man har inte misslyckats förrän man slutat försöka. | Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977) |
| Misslyckande förutsätter ansträngning. Det är därför vissa aldrig misslyckas. | Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977) |
| Misslyckande är oviktigt. Det krävs mod att göra bort sig. | Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977) |
| När skadan är skedd är goda råd sent ute. | Kinesiskt ordspråk |
| Om allting annat misslyckas, spy på det. | Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) |
| Om du försöker misslyckas, och lyckas, vilket har du då gjort? | Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) |
| Vad vi än må vara avsedda för: att lyckas är det inte. Misslyckande är den lott som är oss beskärd. | Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) |
| Varje människa måste ha rätt att begå många misslyckanden utan att känna sig misslyckad. | Lars Kjellman |
| Successful men usually snatch success from seeming failure. If they know there is such a word as defeat they will not admit it. They may be whipped, but they are not aware of it. That is why they succeed. | A. P. Gouthey |
| The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape | Alice James |
| No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out. | Al Gore (1948-2001) |
| Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over again, and you will grow stronger until you have accomplished a purpose - not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember. | Anne Sullivan (1866-1936) |
| Failure is not falling down but refusing to get up. | Chinese Proverbs |
| Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable. | Coco Chanel (1883-1971) |
| There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. | Colin Powell (1937-) |
| Success builds character, failure reveals it | Dave Checkett |
| When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It's like death. | Dennis Quaid (1954-) |
| One failure is worth seven and a half successes | Eli Khamarov |
| A man may fall many times, but he won't be a failure until he says that someone pushed him. | Elmer G. Letterman |
| Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping. | Ethel Barrymore (1879-1959) |
| People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to. | George Allen (1922-1990) |
| Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. | George E. Woodberry |
| People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which they are not | Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837) |
| Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently. | Henry Ford (1863-1947) |
| Failure is only postponed success as long as courage ''coaches'' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory. | Herbert Kaufman |
| The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures. | Sir Humphrey Davy (1778-1829) |
| When you subsidise poverty and failure, you get more of both | James Dale Davidson |
| Success and failure. We think of them as opposites, but they're really not. They're companions - the hero and the sidekick. | Laurence Shames |
| Do not take yourself too seriously. You have to learn not to be dismayed at making mistakes. No human being can avoid failures. | Lawrence G. Lovasik (1913-) |
| A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable | Leslie Lamport |
| Failure is success if we learn from it. | Malcolm S. Forbes (1919-) |
| Nothing fails like failure | Margaret Drabble (1939-) |
| If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down. | Mary Pickford (1893-1979) |
| Supposing you have tried and failed again and again. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call "Failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down. | Mary Pickford (1893-1979) |
| Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act. | Maxwell Maltz |
| Success isn't permanent and failure isn't fatal | Mike Ditka (1939-) |
| May every young scientist remember... and not fail to keep his eyes open for the possibility that an irritating failure of his apparatus to give consistent results may once or twice in a lifetime conceal an important discovery. | Patrick M. S. Blackett (1897-1974) |
| He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being. | Paul Tillich (1886-1965) |
| Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes. | Rick Pitino (1952-) |
| Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach. | Roger von Oech |
| Try again. Fail again. Fail better. | Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) |
| Obviously a major malfunction. | Stephen LaBerge |
| There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient. | Swami Sivananda (1887-1963) |
| It would be great to be able to pass on to someone all of the successes, the failures, and the knowledge that one has had. To help someone, avoid all the fire, pain and anxiety would be wonderful. | Sylvester Stallone (1946-) |
| We must expect to fail...but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process. | Ted W. Engstrom |
| There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life. | Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895) |
| If a man has talent and can't use it, he's failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he uses the whole of it, he has succeeded, and won a satisfaction and triumph few men ever know. | Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938) |
| I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed: and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I fail and keep trying. | Tom Hopkins |
| If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate. | Tom Watson (1949-) |
| All war represents a failure of diplomacy | Tony Benn (1925-) |
| Failure is the tuition you pay for success. | Walter Brunell |
| The only time you don't fail is the last time you try anything -- and it works. | William Strong (1971-) |
| All failures - neurotics, psychotics, criminals, drunkards, problem children, suicides, perverts, and prostitutes - are failures because they are lacking in social interest | Alfred Adler (1870-1937) |
| 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. | Anaïs Nin (1903-1977) |
| I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong | Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) |
| Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It forever eclipses the world of demonic powers, as the sun does a candle's light. | Beverly Sills (1929-) |
| An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots. | Charles Franklin Kettering (1876-1958) |
| Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure. | Earl Wilson (1907-1987) |
| There is no failure except in no longer trying. | Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) |
| I do not fear failure. I only fear the "slowing up" of the engine inside of me which is pounding, saying, "Keep going, someone must be on top, why not you?" | General George S. Patton (1885-1945) |
| Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. | George Santayana (1863-1952) |
| There is always time for failure. | John Mortimer |
| Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, medication, depression, neurosis and suicide. With failure comes failure. | Joseph Heller (1923-1999) |
| When we begin to take our failures non-seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves. | Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) |
| We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love. | Madeleine L'Engle |
| My imperfections and failures are as much a blessing from God as my successes and my talents and I lay them both at his feet. | Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) |
| I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying. | Michael Jordan (1963-) |
| I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed. | Michael Jordan (1963-) |
| I've never been afraid to fail. | Michael Jordan (1963-) |
| It is better to fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than to succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail. | Peter Marshall (1927-1949) |
| We failed, but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing. | General Robert E. Lee (1918-1870) |
| What would you do if you knew you could not fail? | Dr. Robert H. Schuller (1926-) |
| Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final. | Roger Babson (1875-1967) |
| Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral. | Rosalind Russell (1908-1976) |
| We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse. | Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) |
| Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, 'I have failed three times' and what happens when he says, I'm a failure. | S. I. Hayakawa |
| 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 (1812-1904) |
| Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities. | Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) |
| Failure is impossible. | Susan B. Anthony |
| One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them | Thomas Sowell (1930-) |
| Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. | Truman Capote (1924-1984) |
| What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better | Wendell Phillips (1811-1884) |
| If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative. | Woody Allen (1935-) |
| My imperfections and failures are as much a blessing from God as my successes and my talents and I lay them both at his feet. | Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) |
| Failure is not falling down but refusing to get up. | Chinese Proverbs |
| Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act. | André Malraux (1901-1976) |
| Success builds character, failure reveals it | Dave Checkett |
| We must expect to fail...but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process. | Ted W. Engstrom |
| To be wrong is nothing unless you continue to remember it | Konfucius (555 f.Kr.-479 f.Kr.) |
| Try and fail, but don't fail to try. | Stephen Kaggwa |
| Failure is the tuition you pay for success. | Walter Brunell |
| You may make mistakes, but you are not a failure until you start blaming someone else | Bill Cosby (1937-) |
| I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. | Bill Cosby (1937-) |
| Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities | Napoleon Hill (1883-1970) |
| Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently. | Henry Ford (1863-1947) |
| We seem to gain wisdom more readily through our failures than through our successes. We always think of failure as the antithesis of success, but it isn't. Success often lies just the other side of failure. | Leo F. Buscaglia |
| Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. | George E. Woodberry |
| Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing. | Denis Waitley (-1933) |
| I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong | Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) |
| There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life. | Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895) |
| A stumble may prevent a fall. | Proverb |
| All failures - neurotics, psychotics, criminals, drunkards, problem children, suicides, perverts, and prostitutes - are failures because they are lacking in social interest | Alfred Adler (1870-1937) |
| Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over gain, and you will grow stronger until have accomplished a purpose - not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember. | Ben Stein (1944-) |
| Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement. | C.S. Lewis (1898-1963) |
| If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress. | Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933) |
| Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God. | Charles Horton Cooley |
| It takes a while to grasp that not all failures are self-imposed, the result of ignorance, carelessness or inexperience. It takes a while to grasp that a garden isn't a testing ground for character and to stop asking, what did I do wrong? Maybe nothing. | Eleanor Perényi |
| Every woman who fails in a public position confirms this, but every woman who succeeds creates confidence. | Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) |
| Finite to fail, but infinite to venture. | Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) |
| It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression. | Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) |
| Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping. | Ethel Barrymore (1879-1959) |
| Failure is a bottomless pit ready to devour you. If you always look up and never look down, failure is void. | Folashade' Ayanwale |
| It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something. - former US President Franklin D. Roosevelt | Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945) |
| I'd rather be a failure at something I enjoy than a success at something I hate | George F. Burns (1896-1996) |
| Failure is only postponed success as long as courage ''coaches'' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory. | Herbert Kaufman |
| The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide. | James Arthur Baldwin (1924-1987) |
| 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 |
| Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day. | Jim Rohn |
| There's no such thing as failure - just waiting for success. | John Osborne (1929-1994) |
| We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you | John W. Gardner (1912-2002) |
| Failure is not our only punishment for laziness: there is also the success of others | Jules Renard (1864-1910) |
| There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose. | Kin Hubbard (1868-1930) |
| We often say how impressive power is. But I do not find it impressive at all. The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure. They are necessary symbols that protect what we cherish. | Lyndon B. Johnson (1908-1973) |
| Nothing fails like failure | Margaret Drabble (1939-) |
| When a man arrives at great prosperity God did it: when he falls into disaster he did it himself | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| A couple of hundred years ago, Benjamin Franklin shared with the world the secret of his success. Never leave that till tomorrow, he said, which you can do today. This is the man who discovered electricity. You think more people would listen to what he had to say. I don't know why we put things off, but if I had to guess, I'd have to say it has a lot to do with fear. Fear of failure, fear of rejection, sometimes the fear is just of making a decision, because what if you're wrong? What if you're making a mistake you can't undo? The early bird catches the worm. A stitch in time saves nine. He who hesitates is lost. We can't pretend we hadn't been told. We've all heard the proverbs, heard the philosophers, heard our grandparents warning us about wasted time, heard the damn poets urging us to seize the day. Still sometimes we have to see for ourselves. We have to make our own mistakes. We have to learn our own lessons. We have to sweep today's possibility under tomorrow's rug until we can't anymore. Until we finally understand for ourselves what Benjamin Franklin really meant. That knowing is better than wondering, that waking is better than sleeping, and even the biggest failure, even the worst, beat the hell out of never trying. | Meredith Grey |
| I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying. | Michael Jordan (1963-) |
| There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor; the unconquerable will. There is no failure for the man who gets up every time he falls, who rebounds like a r | Orison Swett Marden |
| No man fails who does his best. | Orison Swett Marden |
| There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King. | Orison Swett Marden |
| Ambition is the last refuge of failure. | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds. | R. D. Laing (1927-1989) |
| You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| I have impeached myself by resigning. | Richard M. Nixon (1913-1994) |
| Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet. | Dr. Robert H. Schuller (1926-) |
| Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better. | Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) |
| Losers are always in the wrong | Spanish Proverb |
| Obviously a major malfunction. | Stephen LaBerge |
| I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best. | T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) |
| It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. | Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) |
| When life knocks you down you have two choices- stay down or get up. | Tom Krause (1934-) |
| 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 (1775-1864) |
| Every fair from fair sometime declines | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| By that sin fell the angels. | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| Don't take 'no' for an answer, never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. You will make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you cannot hurt the world or even s | Winston Churchill (1874-1965) |
| Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street. | Zig Ziglar |