Failure Quotes - Page 30

• Even after the greatest defeats, the depressing thought of being a failure is best combated by taking stock of all your past achievements.

  Hans Selye

  Depressing, Past, Achievement

  hans selye (1974). “stress without distress”

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• But success and failure are of no account. They are God's concern, not mine.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Concern, Accounts, Mines

  Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.271, Vintage

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• Men fall from great fortune because of the same shortcomings that led to their rise.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Fall, Men, Fortune

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• All men are mortal, and therefore all men are losers; our profoundest loyalty goes out to the failed.

  John Updike

  Loyalty, Men, Loser

  John Updike (2012). “Odd Jobs: Essays and Criticism”, p.101, Random House

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• While we are young the idea of death or failure is intolerable to us; even the possibility of ridicule we cannot bear.

  Isak Dinesen

  Ideas, Bears, Youth

  Isak Dinesen (2011). “Seven Gothic Tales”, p.10, Vintage

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• Failure is nothing but the kiss of Jesus.

  Mother Teresa

  Jesus, Kissing

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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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• My life has been nothing but a failure.

  Claude Monet

  Has Beens

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• To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the most difficult of all, and so important, withal, that nations have perished from their failure to achieve it.

  Irving Babbitt

  Important, Achieve, Difficult

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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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• The real loser of our times is the one who is expected to win.

  Claude Lelouch

  Real, Winning, Loser

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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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• When I examine the conclusion [on experiments with the electric light bulb experiments published in the Herald] which everyone acquainted with the subject will recognize as a conspicuous failure, trumpeted as a wonderful success, I [conclude]... that the writer ... must either be very ignorant, and the victim of deceit, or a conscious accomplice in what is nothing less than a fraud upon the public.

  Henry Morton Stanley

  Science, Light, Ignorant

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• Failure is not a crime. The crime is not trying.

  Ron Dellums

  Trying, Crime

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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 be happy, drop the words 'if only' and substitute instead the words 'next time'.

  Smiley Blanton

  Happiness, Acting, Next

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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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• Be avid. Create apart from perfection. Risk failure. Cover your words with sweat. Run a little Touch excruciatingly. Laugh until you cry. Dance with your eyes closed. Care. Understand you die a little in every moment. Be Enlivened

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Love, Running, Eye

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• You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to fall down flat But to lie there - that's a disgrace.

  Edmund Vance Cooke

  Lying, Fall, Optimism

  Edmund Vance Cooke, “How DID You Die?”

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• Anyone can take a false step And fall forever, Everyone is different. Where are they now, all those lost souls?

  Nguyen Du

  Fall, Forever, Soul

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• We are neurotically haunted today by the imminence, and by the ignominy, of failure. We know at how frightening a cost one succeeds: to fail is something too awful to think about.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Thinking, Cost, Awful

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• We fail to see the purifying and refining effect wrought by the flames of adversity. These flames are not meant to consume but only to purify us. Disguised as adversity, blessings are showered upon us.

  A. Theodore Tuttle

  Adversity, Blessing, Flames

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• For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three.

  Alice Kahn

  Life, Women, Science

  "The Brain is Wider Than the Sky by Bryan Appleyard - review" by Simon Ings, www.theguardian.com. November 17, 2011.

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