Failure Quotes - Page 27

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

  David O. McKay

  Family, Success, Home

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• Oft expectation fails, and most oft there where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest, and despair most fits.

  William Shakespeare

  Hope, Keeping Promises, Expectations

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.216

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• Do not compare yourself to others. If you do so, you are insulting yourself.

  Unknown

  Inspirational, Motivational, Insulting

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• When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• Just because you fail once doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Perseverance, Courage, Mean

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• Failure is a reality; we all fail at times, and it's painful when we do. But it's better to fail while striving for something wonderful, challenging, adventurous, and uncertain than to say, " I don't want to try because I may not succeed completely.

  Jimmy Carter

  Reality, Challenges, Trying

  Jimmy Carter (2011). “Sources of Strength: Meditations on Scripture for a Living Faith”, p.221, Three Rivers Press

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• God knows the feelings in every human heart. He can soften sorrow and lead when there seems to be no light. Prayer can give guidance and confidence. It reminds us that no one need be alone in this world. If all else fails, remember, God and one other person can be a family.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Prayer, Heart, Light

  Marvin J. Ashton (1991). “The Measure of Our Hearts”, Shadow Mountain

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• Forget mistakes. Forget failure. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day

  Will Durant

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.

  Confucius

  Mistake, Educational, Faults

  Confucius (2013). “Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean”, p.141, Courier Corporation

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• Most people, after one success, are so cringingly afraid of doing less well that they rub all the edge off their subsequent work.

  Beatrix Potter

  Inspirational, People, Wells

  Beatrix Potter, Judy Taylor (2012). “Beatrix Potter's Letters”, p.219, Penguin UK

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  The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.

  Michelangelo

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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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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• The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Time, Disappointment, Age

  Benjamin Disraeli (2010). “Vivian Grey”, p.618, BoD – Books on Demand

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• Doing is overrated, and success undesirable, but the bitterness of failure even more so.

  Cyril Connolly

  Bitterness, Overrated, Undesirable

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• Sometimes failure isn't an opportunity in disguise, it's just you.

  Douglas Coupland

  Opportunity, Sometimes, Disguise

  Douglas Coupland (2008). “JPod”, p.147, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• It's not a very high failure rate if you choose people that you really like the sound of.

  Bryan Ferry

  People, Sound, Rate

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• I have failed in finding parasites in mosquitoes fed on malaria patients, but perhaps I am not using the proper kind of mosquito.

  Ronald Ross

  Science, Malaria, Mosquitoes

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• Stem cells are probably going to be extremely useful. But it isn't a given, and even if it were, I don't think the end justifies the means. I am not against stem cells, I think it's great. Blanket objection is not very reasonable to me-any effort to control scientific advances is doomed to fail. You cannot stop the human mind from working.

  Joseph Murray

  Mean, Science, Thinking

  "A Conversation With: Joseph E. Murray; On Surgical Innovation And The Questions It Can Raise". Interview With Cornelia Dean, www.nytimes.com. September 25, 2001.

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• The failure of Christianity in the areas west from Sicily was even greater, and was increased by the spread of Arab outlooks and influence to that area, and especially to Spain.

  Carroll Quigley

  Spain, West, Influence

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• To win you've got to stay in the game.

  Claude M. Bristol

  Inspiration, Winning, Games

  Claude M. Bristol, Harold Sherman (1992). “TNT: The Power Within You”, p.155, Simon and Schuster

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