Failure Quotes - Page 13

• 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

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Why Not Try God?", Chapter 6 (newspaper serial) in St. Petersburg Times, sect. 2, p. 3, news.google.com. January 25, 1936.

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• People often avoid making decisions out of fear of making a mistake. Actually the failure to make decisions is one of life's biggest mistakes.

  Noah Weinberg

  Inspirational, Life, Perseverance

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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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• There is nothing scary about life if you are not attached to results.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspirational, Life, Religious

  Neale Donald Walsch (2005). “The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.110, Penguin

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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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• I've always considered myself a failure: I feel I've never done anything wholly right. [...] Everybody will tell you, "Oh no, how can you say that, because ten thousand people clap you on a night?" But part of that is reflex action and part of it is because you're reasonably good. But if you're great, that's a different thing.

  Ronnie Drew

  Night, Thinking, People

  "Ronnie". Book by Ronnie Drew, September 3, 2009.

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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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• Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any.

  Plato

  Success, Men, Greek

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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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• Success takes communication, collaboration and, sometimes, failure.

  Jessica Alba

  Success, Communication, Collaboration

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• 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

  Business, Work, Inspiration

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• Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.

  Ralph Ellison

  Life, Inspiring, Winning

  Ralph Ellison (2010). “Invisible Man”, p.590, Vintage

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• We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes - understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success.

  Arianna Huffington

  Positive, Success, Business

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• Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.

  Hank Aaron

  Wisdom, Bed Of Roses, Way

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• Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.

  W. Clement Stone

  Positive, Attitude, Order

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• You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Believe, Self Improvement

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• 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.

  Georges Clemenceau

  Inspirational, Life, Fear

  "Clemenceau, The Events of His Life as Told by Himself to His Former Secretary, Jean Martet". Book by Georges Clemenceau, 1930.

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• In great attempts, it is glorious even to fail.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Adversity, Wrestling

  Vince Lombardi, Balance Design (1998). “Motivation Lombardi Style”

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• Be sensitive to the plight of others. You have to know about the tragedies as well as the triumphs, the failures as well as the success.

  Jim Rohn

  Pain, Compassion, Entrepreneur

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Sep 24, 2016

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• They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward.

  Thomas A. Edison

  President, Wilson, Blunders

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• 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.

  George Eliot

  Perseverance, Fear, Men

  George Eliot (1997). “Felix Holt, the Radical”, p.365, Wordsworth Editions

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• There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

  Eric Hoffer

  Loneliness, Being Alone, House

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• 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

  Inspirational, Success, Stay Strong

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• I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.

  John Keats

  Fear, War, Greatness

  Letter to James Hessey, 8 October 1818, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 1, p. 374

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• My reputation grows with every failure.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Reputation, Learning From Failure, Grows

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