Failure Quotes - Page 34

• I constantly meet people who are doubtful, generally without due reason, about their potential capacity [as mathematicians]. The first test is whether you got anything out of geometry. To have disliked or failed to get on with other [mathematical] subjects need mean nothing; much drill and drudgery is unavoidable before they can get started, and bad teaching can make them unintelligible even to a born mathematician.

  John Edensor Littlewood

  Teaching, Mean, Math

  "Littlewood's Miscellany".

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Failure is nothing but success trying to be born in a bigger way. Most seeming failures are just installments toward victory!

  Catherine Ponder

  Victory, Trying, Way

  Catherine Ponder (2016). “The Dynamic Laws of Prosperity”, p.79, Lulu.com

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• There is no failure, only a process which is leading us to become the greatest version of ourselves.

  Ralph Smart

  Process, No Failure, Versions

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• Failure may be just a step toward your eventual goal.

  Georgette Mosbacher

  Goal, May, Steps

  Georgette Mosbacher (1994). “Feminine Force: Release the Power Within You to Create the Life You Deserve”, Touchstone

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