Failure Quotes - Page 22

• You always pass failure on the way to success.

  Mickey Rooney

  Life, Motivational, Success

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• He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts.

  Richard Whately

  Effort

  Richard Whately (1839). “Essays on Some of the Dangers to Christian Faith”, p.335

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• It doesn't matter how many times you fail. It doesn't matter how many times you almost get it right. No-one is going to know or care about your failures, and neither should you. All you have to do is learn from them and those around you. All that matters in business is that you get it right once. Then everyone can tell you how lucky you are.

  Mark Cuban

  Entrepreneur, Lucky, Care

  Mark Cuban (2011). “How to Win at the Sport of Business: If I Can Do It, You Can Do It”, p.43, Diversion Books

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• * We have come this far always believing
  that justice would somehow prevail.
  This is the burden, this is the promise,
  and THIS is why we will not fail.

  Peter Yarrow

  Believe, Justice, Promise

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• Recovering from failure is often easier than building from success.

  Michael Eisner

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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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 conquerable will. There is no failure for the man who gets up every time he falls, who rebounds like a rubber ball, who persists when everyone else gives up, who pushes on when everyone else turns back.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Inspirational, Life, Perseverance

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• It is foolish to fear what you cannot avoid.

  Publilius Syrus

  Inspirational, Fear, Foolish

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• The better a man is the more mistakes will he make – for the more new things he will try.

  Peter Drucker

  Mistake, Men, Trying

  "The Practice of Management".

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• The person who failed often knows how to avoid future failures. The person who knows only success can be more oblivious to all the pitfalls.

  Randy Pausch

  Success, Pitfalls, Overcoming Adversity

  Randy Pausch (2008). “The Last Lecture”, p.147, Hachette UK

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• Even though the ship may go down, the journey goes on.

  Margaret Mead

  Journey, Goes On, May

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• Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, medication, depression, neurosis and suicide. With failure comes failure.

  Joseph Heller

  Funny, Success, Suicide

  1975 Interview in Playboy, Jun.

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• In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.

  Hugh Walpole

  Truth, Lying, Errors

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• The problem with most failing businesses is not that their owners don?t know enough about finance, marketing, management, and operations - they don?t, but those things are easy enough to learn - but that they spend their time and energy defending what they think they know. My experience has shown me that the people who are exceptionally good in business aren?t so because of what they know but because of their insatiable need to know more.

  Michael Gerber

  Thinking, Insatiable Need, Discipline

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• There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Michel de Montaigne, William Hazlitt (1845). “The Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Letters, Journey Through Germany and Italy. With Notes from All the Commentators, Biographical and Bibliographical Notices, &c. &c”, p.92

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• Failure or success seems to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting with their star or against it, and in the whole universe the only really interesting movement is the wriggle.

  E. M. Forster

  Stars, Fighting, Destiny

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• A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.

  Arthur Bloch

  Finals, Inspection, Units

  Arthur Bloch (1991). “The complete Murphy's law: a definitive collection”, PSS Adult

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• Don't be so bitter about a bad experience from your past that you miss the opportunities in front of you.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Regret, Past, Opportunity

  Twitter post from Jan 09, 2014

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• Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Teacher, Mistake

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Dec 11, 2014

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• It is a very common failing, never to be pleased with our fortune nor displeased with our character.

  Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

  Character, Common, Failing

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• Do not think of to-day's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow.

  Helen Keller

  Cheer, Giving Up, Optimistic

  Helen Keller's Address to the American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf, July 8, 1896.

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• Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.

  Horace

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

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• Act as if it were impossible to fail.

  Dorothea Brande

  Inspirational, Positive, Hard Work

  Donald G. Carty, Dorothea Brande (2013). “How to Wake Up and Live: A Formula for Success That Works”, p.6, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

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• One great cause of failure is lack of concentration.

  Bruce Lee

  Positive, Causes, Concentration

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.58, Tuttle Publishing

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• If you're going through hell, keep going.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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