<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Failure - Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might has well not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66807]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might has well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66667]]></link><description><![CDATA[Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65473]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64755]]></link><description><![CDATA[With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64637]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd rather try and fail than not try at all, as they say. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64615]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd rather try and fail than not try at all, as they say.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough . ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64214]]></link><description><![CDATA[Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64157]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63785]]></link><description><![CDATA[A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63280]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63081]]></link><description><![CDATA[Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Failure is success if we learn from it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62895]]></link><description><![CDATA[Failure is success if we learn from it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62860]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14935]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14936]]></link><description><![CDATA[War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have no use for men who fail. The cause of their failure is no business of mine, but I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14937]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have no use for men who fail. The cause of their failure is no business of mine, but I want successful men as my associates.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14938]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes. -George Soros.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed--I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14939]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed--I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ambition is the last refuge of the failure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14940]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Failures are divided into two classes--those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14942]]></link><description><![CDATA[Failures are divided into two classes--those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not failure, but low aim, is crime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14943]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not failure, but low aim, is crime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only time you don't fail is the last time you try anything--and it works. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14944]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only time you don't fail is the last time you try anything--and it works.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A failure is a man who has blundered but is not able to cash in the experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14945]]></link><description><![CDATA[A failure is a man who has blundered but is not able to cash in the experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. -Robert F. Kennedy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14946]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. -Robert F. Kennedy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14947]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14948]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here's to the men who lose! What though their work be e'er so nobly plann'd  And watched with zealous ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here's to the men who lose! What though their work be e'er so nobly plann'd  And watched with zealous care;   No glorious halo crowns their efforts grand--    Contempt is Failure's share!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And each forgets, as he strips and runs With a brilliant, fitful pace,  It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14932]]></link><description><![CDATA[And each forgets, as he strips and runs With a brilliant, fitful pace,  It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones   Who win in the lifelong race.    And each forgets that his youth has fled,     Forgets that his prime is past,      Till he stands one day, with a hope that's dead,       In the glare of the truth at last.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have scorched the snake, not killed it. She'll close and be herself, whilst our poor malice  Remains in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14933]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have scorched the snake, not killed it. She'll close and be herself, whilst our poor malice  Remains in danger of her former tooth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who forms the habit of beginning without finishing has simply formed the habit of failure. •Mrs. Charles E. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14934]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who forms the habit of beginning without finishing has simply formed the habit of failure. •Mrs. Charles E. Cowman  To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment. •James Allen   All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure. •Jean-Paul Sartre   No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward. •Amar Gopal Bose   He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody. •Joseph Heller   Failure is the tuition you pay for success. •Walter Brunell   Success is never final, but failure can be. •Bill Parcells   Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses. •George Washington Carver   I know fear is an obstacle for some people, but it is an illusion to me . . . Failure always made me try harder next time. •Michael Jordan   Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. •Confucius   The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns. •Francis Picabia   You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you. •Walt Disney  Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral. •Rosalind Russell   My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure. •Abraham Lincoln   Success is never final and failure never fatal. It's courage that counts. •George R. Tilton   I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom. •George S. Patton   There is no human failure greater than to launch a profoundly important endeavour and then leave it half done. •Barbara Ward   Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet. •German Proverb   A man may fail many times but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else. •J. Paul Getty   Failure is not fatal; victory is not success. •Tony Richardson   Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have. •Louis Boone   Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day. •Jim Rohn  There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought. •Laurence J. Peter   If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless. •Robert H. Schuller   Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. •Truman Capote   There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient. •Sri Swami Sivananda   Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. •Joe Paterno   Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits. •Robert Louis Stevenson   Failures are like skinned knees -- painful, but superficial. •H. Ross Perot   I cannot give the formula for success, but I can give you the formula of failure -- which is try to please everybody. •Herbert B. Swope   Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street. •Zig Ziglar  A proud heart can survive a general failure because such a failure does not prick its pride.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If this fail, The pillar'd firmament is rottenness,  And earth's base built on stubble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14926]]></link><description><![CDATA[If this fail, The pillar'd firmament is rottenness,  And earth's base built on stubble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why, like the hindmost chariot wheels, art curst Still to be near but ne'er to reach the first.  [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14927]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why, like the hindmost chariot wheels, art curst Still to be near but ne'er to reach the first.  [Lat., Nam quamvis prope to, quamvis temone sub uno   Verentem sese, frustra sectabere cantum    Cum rota posterior curras et in axe secundo.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Although strength should fail, the effort will deserve praise. In great enterprises the attempt is enough. [Lat., Quod si deficiant ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14928]]></link><description><![CDATA[Although strength should fail, the effort will deserve praise. In great enterprises the attempt is enough. [Lat., Quod si deficiant vires, audacia certe  Laus erit: in magnis et voluisse sat est.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Allow me to offer my congratulations on the truly admirable skill you have shown in keeping clear of the mark. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14929]]></link><description><![CDATA[Allow me to offer my congratulations on the truly admirable skill you have shown in keeping clear of the mark. Not to have hit once in so many trials, argues the most splendid talents for missing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He beat the bushes without taking the birds. [Fr., [Il] battoit les buissons sans predre les ozillons.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14930]]></link><description><![CDATA[He beat the bushes without taking the birds. [Fr., [Il] battoit les buissons sans predre les ozillons.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You may boldly say, you did not plough Or trust the barren and ungrateful sands  With the fruitful grain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14924]]></link><description><![CDATA[You may boldly say, you did not plough Or trust the barren and ungrateful sands  With the fruitful grain of your religious counsels.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["All honor to him who shall win the prize," The world has cried for a thousand years;  But to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14925]]></link><description><![CDATA["All honor to him who shall win the prize," The world has cried for a thousand years;  But to him who tries and fails and dies,   I give great honor and glory and tears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How are the mighty fallen in the midst of battle! O Jonathan, thou wast slain in thine high places. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14911]]></link><description><![CDATA[How are the mighty fallen in the midst of battle! O Jonathan, thou wast slain in thine high places.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the lexicon of youth, which Fate reserves for a bright manhood, there is no such word  As--fail! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14912]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the lexicon of youth, which Fate reserves for a bright manhood, there is no such word  As--fail!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never say "Fail" again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14913]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never say "Fail" again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that is down needs fear no fall He that is low, no pride. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14914]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that is down needs fear no fall He that is low, no pride.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now a' is done that men can do, And a' is done in vain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14915]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now a' is done that men can do, And a' is done in vain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that is down can fall no lower. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14916]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that is down can fall no lower.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men do not stumble over mountains, but over molehills. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14917]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men do not stumble over mountains, but over molehills.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14918]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The camel set out to get him horns and was shorn of his ears. [Lat., Camelus desiderans cornua etiam aures ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14919]]></link><description><![CDATA[The camel set out to get him horns and was shorn of his ears. [Lat., Camelus desiderans cornua etiam aures perdidit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He ploughs in sand, and sows against the wind, That hopes for constant love of woman kind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14920]]></link><description><![CDATA[He ploughs in sand, and sows against the wind, That hopes for constant love of woman kind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Failed the bright promise of your early day? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14921]]></link><description><![CDATA[Failed the bright promise of your early day?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14922]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Greatly begin! Though thou have time But for a line, be that sublime--  Not failure, but low aim is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14923]]></link><description><![CDATA[Greatly begin! Though thou have time But for a line, be that sublime--  Not failure, but low aim is crime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14923</guid></item></channel></rss>