Failure Quotes - Page 12

• Playing things too safe is the most popular way to fail.

  Elliott Smith

  Fear, Risk, Musician

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• Success is not just the crowning moment, the spiking of the ball in the end zone or the raising of the flag on the summit. It is the whole process of reaching for a goal and, sometimes, it begins with failure.

  Erik Weihenmayer

  Inspirational, Success, Accomplishment

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• People have been telling me I'm a failure and that I'm doing it all wrong for 20 years now. Never trust anybody when they tell you how your story goes. You know your story. You write your own story.

  Kevin Smith

  Life, Trust, Writing

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• Success is a pile of failure that you are standing on.

  Dave Ramsey

  Moving On, Success, Perseverance

  Twitter post from Jan 16, 2017

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• Don't waste your time being upset about something you can't change. Begin again and do it better this time.

  Joyce Meyer

  Motivational, Time, Upset

  Twitter post from Feb 18, 2012

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• A failure is like fertilizer; it stinks to be sure, but it makes things grow faster in the future.

  Denis Waitley

  Inspirational, Funny, Success

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• To the extent that we hyper-separate ourselves from nature and reduce it conceptually in order to justify domination, we not only lose the ability to empathise and to see the non-human sphere in ethical terms, but also get a false sense of our own character and location that includes an illusory sense of autonomy. The failure to see the non-human domain in the richer terms appropriate to ethics licences supposedly ‘purely instrumental’ relationships that distort our perceptions and enframings, impoverish our relations and make us insensitive to dependencies and interconnections

  Val Plumwood

  Relationship, Sympathy, Nature

  Val Plumwood (2005). “Environmental Culture: The Ecological Crisis of Reason”, p.9, Routledge

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• Do your thing. Do it unapologetically. Don't be discouraged by criticism. You probably already know what they're going to say. Pay no mind to the fear of failure. It's far more valuable than success. Take ownership, take chances, and have fun. And no matter what, don't ever stop doing your thing.

  Asher Roth

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• ...whoever is guided solely by his own judgment and decision will never climb up to the summit of perfection and will not fail to be the victim of the devil's ruinous power to delude.

  John Cassian

  Christian, Power, People

  John Cassian, Colm Luibhéid (1985). “Conferences”, p.79, Paulist Press

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• My excellent colleagues have forgotten these bitter lessons of history. The prospect of tyranny may not grab the headlines the way vivid stories of gun crime usually do. But few saw the Third Reich coming until it was too late. The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed only for those exceptionally rare circumstances when all other rights have failed. A free people can only afford to make this mistake once.

  Alex Kozinski

  Freedom, Mistake, Gun

  "United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit". openjurist.org. May 6, 2003.

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• Refuse to ever use the term 'failure' again about yourself or anyone else. Remind yourself that wehn things didn't go as planned you didn't fail, you only produced a result.

  Wayne Dyer

  Use, Self Help, Planning

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• You can't dwell on what happened. You can't live even a moment stewing in bitterness.

  Apolo Ohno

  Positivity, Ice Skating, Dwelling

  Apolo Ohno (2010). “Zero Regrets: Be Greater Than Yesterday”, p.280, Simon and Schuster

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• Bill Maher is right to condemn religious practices that violate fundamental human rights. Religious communities must do more to counter extremist interpretations of their faith. But failing to recognize that religion is embedded in culture — and making a blanket judgment about the world’s second largest religion — is simply bigotry.

  Reza Aslan

  Religious, Rights, Practice

  "Bill Maher Isn’t the Only One Who Misunderstands Religion" by Reza Aslan, www.nytimes.com. October 8, 2014.

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• Achievers rarely, if ever, see a problem as permanent,while those who fail see even the smallest problems as permanent

  Tony Robbins

  Adversity, Achievement, Obstacles

  Twitter post from Feb 01, 2017

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• Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.

  Montgomery Clift

  Creativity, Artist, Creative

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• (A unified) 'Europe' is the result of plans. It is, in fact, a classic utopian project, a monument to the vanity of intellectuals, a programme whose inevitable destiny is failure: only the scale of the final damage done is in doubt.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Destiny, Europe, Vanity

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• The most important lesson I've learned from sports is how to be not only a gracious winner, but a good loser as well. Not everyone wins all the time, as a matter of fact, no one wins all the time. Winning is the easy part, losing is really tough. But, you learn more from one loss than you do from a million wins. You learn a lot about sportsmanship.

  Amy Van Dyken

  Sports, Learning, Loss

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• Don't be afraid of failure, be afraid of not trying in the first place.

  Marie Forleo

  Encouraging, Procrastination, Trying

  FaceBook post by Marie Forleo from Dec 19, 2014

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• Faith, sympathy - fiery faith and fiery sympathy! Life is nothing, death is nothing, hunger nothing, cold nothing. Glory unto the Lord - march on, the Lord is our General. Do not look back to see who falls - forward - onward! Thus and thus we shall go on, brethren. One falls, and another takes up the work

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Life, Moving On

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1916, Manonmani Publishers

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• If you're willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.

  Edward Albee

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• The world is in the condition it is in because of you, and the choices you have made - or failed to make. (Not to decide is to decide.) The Earth is in the shape it's in because of you, and the choices you have made - or failed to make. Your own life is the way it is because of you, and the choices you have made - or failed to make.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  "Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue, Book 1". Book by Neale Donald Walsch, 1996.

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• Fear of failure leads to failure.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• When your failures surround you, and all the open doors have closed, look up. There’s a door that never closes, a way, when all the other ways have failed you.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Inspirational, Faith, Religious

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• If you want to experience all of the successes and pleasure in life, you have to be willing to accept all the pain and failure that comes with it.

  Mat Hoffman

  Life, Success, Sports

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• Failure is not meant to be final and fatal.... It is meant to refine you to be all that you are meant to be.

  Jon Gordon

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Perseverance

  FaceBook post by Jon Gordon from Nov 30, 2015

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