Failure Quotes - Page 32

• Refreshing failures roll off the travel easel like ants from a picnic blanket.

  Sara Genn

  Picnics, Ants, Refreshing

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• No matter whether failure came A thousand different times, For one brief moment of success, Life rang its golden chimes.

  George Eliot

  Different, Matter, Golden

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• There is a chill air surrounding those who are down in the world, and people are glad to get away from them, as from a cold room.

  George Eliot

  Air, People, World

  George Eliot (2016). “The Mill On The Floss”, p.322, George Eliot

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• In all failures, the beginning is certainly the half of the whole.

  George Eliot

  Half, Losing, Whole

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.203, Penguin

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• It is a tragic hour, that hour when we are finally driven to reckon with ourselves, when every avenue of mental distraction has been cut off and our own life and all its ineffaceable failures closes about us like the walls of that old torture chamber of the Inquisition.

  Willa Cather

  Wall, Cutting, Distraction

  Willa Cather (2016). “The First Willa Cather MEGAPACK®: 50 Classic Short Works”, p.134, Wildside Press LLC

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• Every man is in some sort a failure to himself. No one ever reaches the heights to which he aspires.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Men, Height, Aspire

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1888). “Longfellow's Days: The Longfellow Prose Birthday Book : Extracts from the Journals and Letters of H. W. Longfellow”

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• Defeats and failures are great developers of character. They have made the giants of our race by giving Titanic muscles, brawny sinews, and far-reaching intellects.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Character, Race, Giving

  Orison Swett Marden (2006). “Rising in the World, Or Architects of Fate”, p.428, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The acceptance of ambiguity implies more than the commonplace understanding that some good things and some bad things happen to us. It means that we know that good and evil are inextricably intermixed in human affairs; that they contain, and sometimes embrace, their opposites; that success may involve failure of a different kind, and failure may be a kind of triumph.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Mean, Acceptance, Opposites

  Sydney J. Harris (1986). “Clearing the ground”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Take the happiest man, the one most envied by the world, and in nine cases out of ten his inmost consciousness is one of failure. Either his ideals in the line of his achievements are pitched far higher than the achievements themselves, or else he has secret ideals of which the world knows nothing, and in regard to which he inwardly knows himself to be found wanting.

  William James

  Men, Secret, World

  William James (1987). “Writings, 1902-1910”, p.129, Library of America

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• There's no disgrace in failing, lad, Though friends and foes deride; In fact, a failure's not so bad As never having tried.

  Ken Kesey

  Facts, Failing, Disgrace

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• THE ONLY REAL FAILURE IS TO FAIL OTHERS.

  Philip K. Dick

  Real, Failing

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “A Scanner Darkly”, p.49, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It's not hard to stand behind one's successes. But to accept responsibility for one's failures... that is devishly hard!

  Vaclav Havel

  Responsibility, Accepting, Behinds

  "Václav Havel: Heir to a Spiritual Legacy". "The Christian Century" Magazine, April 11, 1990.

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• Failure makes success so much sweeter, and allows you to thumb your nose at the crowds.

  Wilbur Smith

  Noses, Thumbs, Crowds

  Interview for Live magazine, the Mail on Sunday (UK) newspaper, December 5, 2010.

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• Hast thou fallen? Do not groan and lament: rather be thankful for the opportunity given thee to rise once more.

  Ivan Panin

  Opportunity, Being Thankful, Given

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• If you must fail ... fail spectacularly!

  Ransom Riggs

  Failing, Ifs

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• To many men, moderate success is only another aspect of failure.

  Charles Tomlinson

  Men, Aspect, Moderates

  Charles Tomlinson (1887). “Essays, Old and New”

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• In all pursuits men complain of failure when they have not attained the measure of success they proposed to themselves.

  Charles Tomlinson

  Men, Complaining, Pursuit

  Charles Tomlinson (1887). “Essays, Old and New”

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• It's a failure only if you don't get anything out of it, Thomas Edison said he knew 999 ways that a light bulb did not work; yet we have lights today.

  Benjamin Carson

  Light, Today, Way

  "Take the Risk: Learning to Identify, Choose, and Live with Acceptable Risk". Book by Ben Carson and Gregg Lewis, 2008.

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• Stop thinking of failing.

  Benjamin Carson

  Thinking, Failing

  "Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story" by Ben Carson, July, 2014.

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• To me the greatest moment in an experiment is always just before I learn whether the particular idea is a good or a bad one. Thus even a failure is exciting, and most of my ideas have of course been wrong.

  Ivar Giaever

  Ideas, Moments, Exciting

  Nobel lecture, www.nobelprize.org. 1973.

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• People tend to grow fearful, when they taste failure, face a daunting challenge or fall ill. Yet, that is precisely the time to become even bolder. Those who are victors at heart are the greatest of all champions!!!!

  Carmelo Anthony

  Fall, Heart, People

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• Failure is enriching. It's also important to accept that you'll make mistakes - it's how you build your expertise. The trick is to learn a positive lesson from all of life's negative moments.

  Alain Ducasse

  Mistake, Important, Lessons

  "Alain Ducasse: 'No geniuses have ever come from the kitchen. We are simply the bridge between nature and our clients'". Interview with Eliza Anyangwe, www.theguardian.com. May 24, 2014.

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• I thank God for my failures. Maybe not at the time but after some reflection. I never feel like a failure just because something I tried has failed.

  Dolly Parton

  Reflection, Thank God, Feels

  Dolly Parton (2012). “Dream More”, p.19, Random House

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• When you're fearless, you take more risks because you're less conscious of failure or what can go wrong.

  Brett Ratner

  Fearless, Risk, Conscious

  "Brett Ratner Interview – RUSH HOUR 3". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. August 7, 2007.

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• You don't go into anything contemplating failure, because if you did, you wouldn't make it.

  Simon Cowell

  Contemplating, Ifs

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