Failure Quotes - Page 26

• Failure is not a crime. Failure to learn from failure is.

  Walter Wriston

  Crime, I Have Made Mistakes, Learn From My Mistakes

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• Always have the situation under control, even if losing. Never betray an inward sense of defeat.

  Arthur Ashe

  Inward, Losing, Defeat

  Arthur Ashe (1995). “Arthur Ashe on Tennis: Strokes, Strategy, Traditions, Players, Psychology, and Wisdom”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• Each failure to sell will increase your chances for success at your next attempt.

  Og Mandino

  Congratulations, Next, Chance

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• Failures don't plan to fail; they fail to plan.

  Harvey Mackay

  Planning, Failing, Plans

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• Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives.

  Ed Bliss

  Mean, Absence, Attainment

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• Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. Our fires are damped, our drafts are checked. We are making use of only a small part of our possible mental and physical resources.

  William James

  Fire, Use, Half

  William James (1987). “Writings, 1902-1910”, p.1225, Library of America

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• Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really?... True effectiveness requires balance.

  Stephen Covey

  Mistake, Thinking, Effectiveness

  Stephen R. Covey (2004). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.161, Simon and Schuster

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• Life is all about learning and one of the most memorable ways of learning something is by messing up.

  Wayne Dyer

  Memorable, Messing Up, Way

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• If I didn't care for fun and such,
  I'd probably amount to much.
  But I shall stay the way I am,
  Because I do not give a damn.

  Dorothy Parker

  Fun, Giving, Care

  "Enough Rope". Book by Dorothy Parker, 1926.

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• There are two kinds of people in the world: those who make excuses and those who get results. An excuse person will find any excuse for why a job was not done, and a results person will find any reason why it can be done. Be a creator, not a reactor.

  Alan Cohen

  Jobs, Attitude, Two

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• In all education the main cause of failure is staleness.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Teaching, Causes

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.55, Simon and Schuster

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• The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.

  B. C. Forbes

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• The truth of the matter is that there's nothing you can't accomplish if: (1) You clearly decide what it is that you're absolutely committed to achieving, (2) You're willing to take massive action, (3) You notice what's working or not, and (4) You continue to change your approach until you achieve what you want, using whatever life gives you along the way.

  Tony Robbins

  Life, Motivational, Change

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.50, Simon and Schuster

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• Any policy is a success by sufficiently low standards and a failure by sufficiently high standards.

  Thomas Sowell

  Success, Science, High Standards

  Thomas Sowell (1995). “The Vision of the Anointed: Self-congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy”, p.102, Basic Books

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• The search for extra-terrestrial life is a failure until that moment when it suddenly becomes a success.

  Seth Shostak

  Success, Science, Life Is

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• Goods and possessions are no gain in his eyes. He stays far from wealth and honor. Long life is no ground for joy, nor early death for sorrow. Success is not for him to be pround of, failure is no shame. Had he all the world's power he would not hold it as his own. If he conquered everything he would not take it to himself. His glory is in knowing that all things come together in One and life and death are equal.

  Zhuangzi

  Life, Eye, Knowing

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• A series of failures may culminate in the best possible result.

  Gisela Richter

  Inspirational, Mistake, Decision

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• All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long years get to know one another's failings; but they also come to know what is worthy of respect and admiration in those they live with and in themselves. If at the end one can say, This man used to the limit the powers that God granted him; he was worthy of love and respect and of the sacrifices of many people, made in order that he might achieve what he deemed to be his task, then that life has been lived well and there are no regrets.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Love, Regret, Stress

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1961). “Autobiography”

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• The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Light, Games

  Henry Ward Beecher (1845). “Lectures to Young Men, on Various Important Subjects”, p.113

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• Part of being a man is learning to take responsibility for your successes, and for your failures. You can't go blaming others, or being jealous. Seeing somebody else's success as your failure is a cancerous way to live.

  Kevin Bacon

  Jealous, Responsibility, Men

  "Kevin Bacon: this much I know". Interview with Jane Mulkerrins, www.theguardian.com. January 19, 2013.

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• Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure.

  Jack Lemmon

  Fear, Fear Of Failure

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.

  Arthur L. Williams, Jr.

  Positive, Don't Give Up, Giving

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• I did what my conscience told me to do, and you can't fail if you do that.

  Anita Hill

  Inspiring, Failing, Ifs

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• The danger that keeps me just a little frightened with every book I write, however, is that I'll overreach myself once too often and try to write a story that I'm just plain not talented or skilful enough to write. That's the dilemma every storyteller faces. It is painful to fail. But it is far sadder when a storyteller stops wanting to try.

  Orson Scott Card

  Pain, Book, Writing

  "Speaker for the Dead". Book by Orson Scott Card, August 15, 1994.

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• No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.

  Greil Marcus

  Betrayal, Simple, America

  Greil Marcus (2015). “Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll Music: Sixth Edition”, p.33, Penguin

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