Every failure is a step to success.

—William Whewell

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About William Whewell

Portrait of William Whewell

William Whewell ( HEW-əl; 24 May 1794 – 6 March 1866) was an English polymath. He was Master of Trinity College, Cambridge. In his time as a student there, he achieved distinction in both poetry and mathematics.

More quotations tagged with “failure”

I believe only in art and failure.

When I thought about why I was sometimes reluctant to push myself, I realized that it was because I was afraid of failure—but in order to have more success, I needed to be willing to accept more failure.

—Gretchen Rubin

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And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your turn is going to be, or if it's already happened.

—Douglas Coupland in Life After God

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An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.

—Charles Horton Cooley

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One fails forward toward success.

—Charles Kettering

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