Failure Quotes - Page 33

• What is failure except feebleness? And what is it to miss one's mark except to aim widely and weakly?

  Ouida

  Missing, Mark, Aim

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• There's nothing more physically exhausting than a sense of failure.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Exhausting

  Twitter post from Mar 19, 2011

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• To fail at all is to fail utterly.

  James Russell Lowell

  Failing

  James Russell Lowell (1870). “Among my Books, etc”, p.45

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• Failure can get to be a rather comfortable old friend.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Old Friends, Comfortable

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.12, BookBaby

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• Many a good beginning makes a bad ending.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Beginnings And Endings

  Laura Ingalls Wilder (1933). “Farmer Boy”

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• Failure would only be if you had somewhere stopped growing. As far as I can see the whole duty of the artist is to keep on growing.

  May Sarton

  Artist, Growing, Duty

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• Failures aren't failures if you learn something from them.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Ifs

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1981). “War within and without: diaries and letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1939-1944”, Berkley

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• Success comes and goes. Your flops stay with you for life.

  Nora Ephron

  Comes And Goes

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• I live, I live, with an absolutely continuous sense of failure. I am always defeated, always. Every book is the wreck of a perfect idea. The years pass and one has only one life. If one has a thing at all one must do it and keep on and on and on trying to do it better.

  Iris Murdoch

  Book, Years, Ideas

  Iris Murdoch (2003). “The Black Prince”, p.156, Penguin

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• All our failures are ultimately failures in love.

  Iris Murdoch

  The Bell ch. 19 (1958)

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• I feel like my life is just passing me by like two ships in the night. And I have missed both boats.

  Jane Wagner

  Night, Two, Ships

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• Any disaster is a learning process.

  Julia Child

  Disaster, Process, Learning Process

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• The main thing is not a matter of wanting to win; the main thing is being scared to lose.

  Billie Jean King

  Winning, Matter, Scared

  Billie Jean King, Frank Deford (1982). “Billie Jean”, Viking Pr

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• I have been disappointed many times, but never defeated.

  Glenda Jackson

  Defeated, Disappointed, Has Beens

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• I don't think anyone's a failure as long as they're still innocent. Just a little. They may lose everything good in them but as long as they believe just a little in something very small, they're still innocent. To fail is to lose every bit of innocence.

  Charlotte Bingham

  Believe, Thinking, Long

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• Failure: Is it a limitation? Bad timing? It's a lot of things. It's something you can't be afraid of, because you'll stop growing. The next step beyond failure could be your biggest success in life.

  Debbie Allen

  Inspirational, Success, African American

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• When failure is not an option, we can forget about creativity, learning, and innovation.

  Brené Brown

  Learning, Creativity, Innovation

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• Humor requires perspective. Perspective requires focus. Focus requires balance. Balance requires attention to the present moment. In the 'now' one is freed from labels. Success and failure, good luck and bad—they're all constructs of your mind.

  Tom Bergeron

  Success, Humor, Good Luck

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• All we can do in this world is the thing that seems to us the best. We have no concern with the results, except as a guide for the future, and sometimes, years afterward, we see that what seemed like a bitter loss was, in reality, gain.

  Myrtle Reed

  Loss, Reality, Years

  Myrtle Reed, Mary Badollet Powell (1911). “The Myrtle Reed Year Book: Epigrams and Opinions from the Writings and Sayings of Myrtle Reed”

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• Fear of failure is the fuel of achievement. If you weren't afraid to fail, you probably wouldn't be highly motivated to work at the level that most of us have to work at to do well.

  Ruth Simmons

  Achievement, Fuel, Levels

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• Movie failures are like the common cold. You can stay in bed and take aspirin for six days and recover. Or you can walk around and ignore it for six days and recover.

  Gene Tierney

  Movie, Six, Bed

  Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden

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• there are many ways to fail. Some reject success. And others do not recognize it when success comes.

  Gene Tierney

  Way, Failing, Rejects

  Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden

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• It is the empiric who never fails.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Failing

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• The right shot at the right moment does not come because you do not let go of yourself. You do not wait for fulfilment, but brace yourself for failure.

  Eugen Herrigel

  Letting Go, Waiting, Doe

  Eugen Herrigel (1964). “Zen”

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• Many men and women spend their lives in unsuccessful attempts to spin the flax God sends them upon a wheel they can never use.

  J. G. Holland

  Men, Use, Wheels

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