Failure Quotes - Page 20

• Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Courage, Humility, Persistence

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Men, Doe, He Man

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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• Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.

  Josephus Daniels

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• A man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies.

  William Wrigley, Jr.

  Men, Worst Enemy, Doubt

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• We need to discover the root causes of success rather than the root causes of failure.

  David Cooperrider

  Success, Discovery, Roots

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• There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought

  Laurence J. Peter

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• 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

  Lying, Luck, Moments

  Alice James (1934). “Her Brothers Her Journal”

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• 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.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Men, Unconquerable Will, Determined

  Orison Swett Marden (1907). “The Optimistic Life”

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• In this game that we're playing, we can't win. Some kinds of failure are better than other kinds, that's all.

  George Orwell

  Winning, Games, Kind

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.231, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is a common mistake to think of failure as the enemy of success. Failure is a teacher-a harsh one, but the best. Pull your failures to pieces looking for the reason. Put your failure to work for you.

  Thomas J. Watson

  Teacher, Mistake, Thinking

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• The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere.

  Frank Arthur Swinnerton

  Men, Doe, Failing

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• Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure.

  Douglas Coupland

  Light, Sometimes, Power Failure

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• I was shipwrecked before I got aboard.

  Seneca the Younger

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• An artist, a man, a failure, must proceed.

  e. e. cummings

  Artist, Men

  E. E. Cummings (2013). “The Theatre of E. E. Cummings”, p.12, W. W. Norton & Company

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• No matter what you do, no matter how stupid, dumb or damaging you judge it to be, there is a lesson to be learned from it.

  Peter McWilliams

  Stupid, Lessons To Be Learned, Judging

  Peter McWilliams (1997). “Life 101: Everything We Wish We Had Learned about Life in School--but Didn't”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

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• Most of my conscious efforts have ended in embarrassing failure.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Effort, Embarrassing, Conscious

  "The Magic Lantern: An Autobiography". Book by Ingmar Bergman translated by Joan Tate, 1988.

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• I had to come to terms with my failure as an artist... I had to find a way for myself.

  Tracey Emin

  Artist, Way, Term

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• Philanthropic colonization is a failure. National colonization will succeed.

  Theodor Herzl

  Succeed, Colonization, Philanthropic

  Theodor Herzl (1960). “Herzl Speaks His Mind on Issues, Events, and Men”

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• I thought my mountain was coming this morning. It was near to speaking when suddenly it shifted, sulked, and returned to smallness. It has eluded me again and sits there, puny and dull. Why?

  Emily Carr

  Morning, Mountain, Dull

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• When you are losing it can seem like there is a black cloud following you around, but like they say there is a silver lining in every cloud.

  Mario Andretti

  Clouds, Black, Losing

  "Super Speedway". Documentary, Action, Sport, 1997.

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• Some drawings are better than others... Some are utterly spoiled... I keep them all. I find a use sometimes even for the worst drawing... But their chief use is to mortify one's conceit, to show how thoroughly incompetent it is possible to be, and to shame one into better ways.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Drawing, Use, Way

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• Artists know failure. It is not tragic that they know failure; it is only tragic if they know failure and little else.

  Eric Maisel

  Artist, Littles, Tragic

  Eric Maisel (1996). “Affirmations for Artists”, Tarcher

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• Alas, all too often, the dream turns into a mud puddle. I am left looking at a disaster. What to do! Keep working. I ask the Almighty for help. That frees me.

  Jules Olitski

  Dream, Mud, Puddles

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• The only real failure is trying to second-guess the taste of an audience. Nothing comes out of that except a kind of inward humiliation.

  David Bowie

  Real, Trying, Inward

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• Reconcile the loss of the painting - no matter how many times it may happen - with the joy of beginning again.

  Joshua L. Goldberg

  Loss, Joy, May

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