Failure Quotes - Page 27

• Failure is not a one-time event; it's how you deal with life along the way. Until you breathe your last breath, you're still in the process, and there is still time to turn things around for the better.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, Way, Lasts

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• I have always felt that although someone may defeat me, and I strike out in a ball game, the pitcher on the particular day was the best player. But I know when I see him again, I'm going to be ready for his curve ball. Failure is a part of success.

  Hank Aaron

  Player, Bed Of Roses, Curves

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

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• There are many people who have the gift, or failing, of never understanding themselves. I have been unlucky enough, or perhaps fortunate enough to have received the opposite gift.

  Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

  Opposites, People, Understanding

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• I constantly meet people who are doubtful, generally without due reason, about their potential capacity [as mathematicians]. The first test is whether you got anything out of geometry. To have disliked or failed to get on with other [mathematical] subjects need mean nothing; much drill and drudgery is unavoidable before they can get started, and bad teaching can make them unintelligible even to a born mathematician.

  John Edensor Littlewood

  Teaching, Mean, Math

  "Littlewood's Miscellany".

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• Incorrect assumptions lie at the root of every failure. Have the courage to test your assumptions.

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Lying, Roots

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Jun 07, 2014

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• Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented; and there is nothing I can imagine that would make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Happiness, Marriage, Effort

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.165, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The constant desire of pleasing which is the peculiar quality of some, may be called the happiest of all desires in this that it rarely fails of attaining its end when not disgraced by affectation.

  Henry Fielding

  Quality, Desire, Peculiar

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• Failure is often the line of least persistence.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Motivational, Persistence

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• Failure doesn't have anything to do with your intrinsic value as a person.

  Albert Ellis

  Intrinsic Value, Persons, Values

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• By honestly acknowledging your past errors, but never damning yourself for them, you can learn to use your past for your own future benefit.

  Albert Ellis

  Past, Errors, Use

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• Meet your failure nobly, and it will not differ from success.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Success

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• I've always lived by the creed that you're never a failure in life when you fall as long as you try and get up.

  Evel Knievel

  Fall, Long, Trying

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• You need to learn what people have done, but you need to learn where they have failed... Usually when they fail it is in the execution.

  Colin Powell

  People, Needs, Done

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• Ignore past failures and forge ahead.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Past, Past Failures

  Maxwell Maltz (2016). “Psycho-Cybernetics Deluxe Edition: The Original Text of the Classic Guide to a New Life”, p.53, Penguin

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• There's a buzz to failing and not dying.

  Stephen Colbert

  Dying, Buzz, Failing

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• The real mark of your character comes from not how you react to your successes, of which I know there will be many. How you react to your failures, of which there will be, if you are bold, a number in your lifetime.

  Daniel Goldin

  Real, Character, Numbers

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• Erase the word "failure" from your vocabulary. No case is ever truly closed, and no challenge is ever over.

  Mary Lou Retton

  Vocabulary, Challenges, Cases

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• I train so hard to make sure failure doesn't happen. If I do everything I can, and run as fast as I possibly can and someone still beats me, I don't think of that as failure.

  Marion Jones

  Running, Thinking, Beats

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• There is only one kind of failure I cannot tolerate: the failure to risk failure.

  Richard Marcinko

  Risk, Kind, Tolerate

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• The more failure you can accept, the greater your chance of success.

  Chris Matthews

  Chance, Accepting, Greater

  Chris Matthews (2010). “The Hardball Handbook: How to Win at Life”, p.14, Random House

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• Failure-it centers me. Too much success has me thinking, All right, what's goin' on?

  Ray Romano

  Thinking, Too Much

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• Be prepared to ride the cycles and trends of life; success is never permanent, and failure is never final.

  Brian Tracy

  Finals, Trends, Success In Life

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Aug 08, 2012

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• I do not agree with this century's fashion of running down the human species as a failed try, a doomed sport. At our worst, we may be going through the early stages of adolescence, and everyone remembers what that is like.

  Lewis Thomas

  Sports, Running, Fashion

  Lewis Thomas (1996). “Fragile Species”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• Tree sitting is a last resort. When you see someone sitting in a tree trying to protect it, you know that every level of our society has failed.

  Julia Hill

  Tree, Trying, Sitting

  Julia Hill (2010). “Legacy of Luna: The Story of a Tree, a Woman, and the Struggle to Save the Redwoods”, p.43, Harper Collins

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• Learn to fail with pride - and do so fast and cleanly. Maximise trial and error - by mastering the error part.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Pride, Errors, Trial And Error

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