Failure Quotes - Page 31

• The failure of the past philosophers is largely the failure to see the self-evident.

  Kedar Joshi

  Philosophy, Past, Self

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• Whenever God looks devilish, I see the philosopher fail.

  Kedar Joshi

  God, Looks, Philosopher

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• Failure is doing nothing.

  Paul Hauck

  Doing Nothing

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• People are afraid to think, or they don't know how. They fail to realize that, while emotions can't be suppressed, the mind can be strengthened. All over the world people are seeking peace of mind, but there can be no peace of mind without strength of mind.

  Eric Gutkind

  Peace, Thinking, People

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• In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for.

  Paul Lutus

  Political, Opinion, Students

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• Rushing into action, you fail. Trying to grasp things, you lose them. Forcing a project to completion, you ruin what was almost ripe.

  Laozi

  Rushing, Trying, Ruins

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• To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give... You will find that people forget the failures of others very quickly.... My last piece of advice is not to let anyone see your mortification, but whatever you fancy people are saying about you to go on with your ordinary life as though nothing unpleasant had happened to you.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Character, People, Giving

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• I think the company's [HP's] success will be my legacy. The company's failure will be my failure, with all the predictable consequences of that.

  Carly Fiorina

  Thinking, Legacy, Company

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• A vice is a failure of desire

  Gerald Stanley Lee

  Desire, Vices

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• Any effort that has self-glorification as its final endpoint is bound to end in disaster.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Self, Effort, Finals

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• Both my marriages were failures! Number one departed, and number two stayed

  Gustav Mahler

  Two, Numbers, Departed

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• When you look at the things people are really fed up with, like the collapse of the pension system, like the failure to get money to the frontline of the health service, Gordon Brown is more responsible for that than any other politician including Tony Blair

  George Osborne

  People, Looks, Get Money

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• It would be a real failure if agreeing that it [abortion] was not an electoral issue provided an alibi for taking it seriously as a public issue.

  Rowan Williams

  Real, Issues, Abortion

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• I've never been able to contemplate failure. Success is everything.

  Raymond Blanc

  Able, Success Failure, Contemplating

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• If people aren't laughing at you, you aren't saying anything very unusual. So let your voice be loud and strong, dare to try things that may fail.

  Joline Godfrey

  Strong, Voice, People

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• Failure is the inspiration of tomorrow's entrepreneurs.

  St. Jerome

  Inspiration, Entrepreneur, Tomorrow

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• All honor to him who shall win the prize. The world has cried for a thousand years. But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears.

  Joaquin Miller

  Winning, Years, Giving

  Joaquin Miller (1917). “The Building of the City Beautiful”

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• An indispensable hypothesis, even though still far from being a guarantee of success, is however the pursuit of a specific aim, whose lighted beacon, even by initial failures, is not betrayed.

  Max Planck

  Success, Science, Guarantees

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• Don't try to cover your mistakes with false words. Rather, correct your mistakes with examination.

  Pythagoras

  Mistake, Trying, Examination

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• It isn't the Lord who withholds himself from us. It is we who withhold ourselves from him because of our failure to keep his commandments.

  Harold B. Lee

  Lord, Commandments

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• The man who lives for himself is a failure. Even if he gains much wealth, position or fortune, he is still a failure. The man who lives for others has achieved true success. A rich man who consecrates his wealth and his position to the good of humanity is a success.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Men, Humanity, Live For Others

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• We may stop ourselves when going up, never when coming down.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  May

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• Not all who seem to fail have failed indeed,Not all who fail have therefor worked in vain.There is no failure for the good and brave.

  Richard Chenevix Trench

  Brave, Failing, Vain

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• My problem is that I don't get the same exhiliration from success as I get depression from failure.

  Steve Martin

  Problem

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• You must expect failure after failure after failure before you succeed.

  Edwin Land

  Succeed

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