Failure Quotes - Page 24

• Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Success, Common Sense, Knack

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• Misfortunes one can endure--they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults--ah!--there is the sting of life.

  Oscar Wilde

  Character, Suffering, Faults

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.496, Wordsworth Editions

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• Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.

  Neil Gaiman

  Inspirational, Life, Fall

  "The Sandman: Fables & Reflections". Comic book series by Neil Gaiman, 1993.

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• The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for what you want right now

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Happiness, Leadership

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Sep 28, 2014

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  I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  Twitter post from Dec 07, 2013

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• So you think that you're a failure, do you? Well, you probably are. What's wrong with that? In the first place, if you've any sense at all you must have learned by now that we pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free.

  Tom Robbins

  Love, Thinking, Grace

  "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues". Book by Tom Robbins, 1976.

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• If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Positive, Depression

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• It is not enough that we do our best; sometimes we must do what is required.

  Winston Churchill

  Love, Inspirational, Encouraging

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• Do one thing every day that scares you.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Positive, New Year

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• Men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed.

  Lloyd Jones

  Inspirational, Success, Courage

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• He will know from and early age that failure is not disgrace. It's just a pitch that you missed, and you'd better get ready for the next one. The next one might be the shot heard round the world. My son and I are Americans, we prepare for glory by failing until we don't.

  Craig Ferguson

  Success, Son, Age

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  What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Success, Hope

  Oscar Wilde (1984). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.41, Dramatic Publishing

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• Every one of us gets through the tough times because somebody is there, standing in the gap to close it for us.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Fear, Tough Times, Gaps

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• In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Inspirational, Success, Appreciation

  Albert Schweitzer (1984). “The Words of Albert Schweitzer”

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• Nearly' only counts in horseshoes and hand-grenades.

  Neil Gaiman

  Success, Good Luck, Hands

  Neil Gaiman (2009). “The Graveyard Book”, p.103, A&C Black

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• It is easy to despise what you cannot get

  Aesop

  Easy, Despise

  Aesop (2014). “Aesop's Fables”, p.20, Penguin

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• Life should begin with age and its privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and its capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages.

  Mark Twain

  Birthday, Age, Privilege

  Mark Twain, Bob Blaisdell (2013). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.15, Courier Corporation

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• The secret to being wrong isn't to avoid being wrong! The secret is being willing to be wrong. The secret is realizing that wrong isn't fatal.

  Seth Godin

  Secret, Realizing, Willing

  Seth Godin (2008). “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us”, p.108, Penguin

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• When you can’t change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• I'm done with those; regrets are an excuse for people who have failed.

  Ned Vizzini

  Regret, People, Done

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• At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done--then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Inspirational, Hope, Believe

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (2016). “The Secret Garden”, p.297, Frances Hodgson Burnett

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• success is 99% failure

  Henry Ford

  Success, Mistake, Adversity

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• Gaily bedight, A gallant knight, In sunshine and in shadow, Had journeyed long, Singing a song, In search of Eldorado. But he grew old— This knight so bold— And o’er his heart a shadow— Fell as he found No spot of ground That looked like Eldorado. And, as his strength Failed him at length, He met a pilgrim shadow— ‘Shadow,’ said he, ‘Where can it be— This land of Eldorado?’ ‘Over the Mountains Of the Moon, Down the Valley of the Shadow, Ride, boldly ride,’ The shade replied,— ‘If you seek for Eldorado!

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Strength, Song, Heart

  Edgar Allan Poe (2004). “The Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe”, p.748, Wordsworth Editions

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• Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little coarse and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice? Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Motivational, Success

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.4008, Delphi Classics

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• No other success [in life] can compensate for failure in the home.

  David O. McKay

  Family, Success, Home

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