Failure Quotes - Page 34

• the higher the step of advancement, the heavier is the fall.

  Heloise

  Fall, Advancement, Steps

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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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• the knowledge of personal failure ... is the invaluable predicate of all honest compassion.

  Anne Truitt

  Compassion, Honest, Invaluable

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• There is no way of steering successfully between a failed situation and a failed self except by stopping and taking our bearings.

  Jo Coudert

  Self, Stopping, Way

  Jo Coudert (2003). “Advice from a Failure”, p.70, iUniverse

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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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• Failure is never a reason not to try again.

  Martha Albrand

  Trying, Reason, Try Again

  Martha Albrand (1950). “Wait for the Dawn”

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• Wherever there is failure, there is some giddiness, some superstition about luck, some step omitted, which, Nature never pardons.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Luck, Superstitions, Steps

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Portable Emerson”, p.340, Penguin

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• Complaints are vain; we will try to. do better another time. To-morrow and to-morrow. A few designs and a few failures, and the time of designing is past.

  Samuel Johnson

  Past, Design, Trying

  Samuel Johnson (1892). “Letters of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.”, Ayer Company Pub

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• Zen takes the opposite tack; it holds that true reality is the fundamental unity of mind and matter, inner spirit and external world. When life is viewed in such terms, there can be no success or failure, happiness or unhappiness; life is a whole, and you are simply part of it. There are no dualities, hence there is nothing to worry about. The result is perfect tranquility.

  Tom Hoover

  Success, Reality, Opposites

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• It has been said that if you aim at nothing in life, you are likely to hit nothing! I have never had anyone come to me and say, 'Venita, I plan to fail.' Yet I have observed many who failed to plan and who unfortunately met with the same dismal results.

  Venita VanCaspel

  Planning, Failing, Results

  Venita VanCaspel (1988). “Money Dynamics for the 1990s”, Simon & Schuster

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• How to fail: Try too hard.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Trying, Failing, Hard

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• I do not believe that a moral philosophy can ever be founded on a scientific basis. … The valuation of life and all its nobler expressions can only come out of the soul’s yearning toward its own destiny. Every attempt to reduce ethics to scientific formulas must fail. Of that I am perfectly convinced.

  Albert Einstein

  Life, Philosophy, Believe

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb”, p.230, Princeton University Press

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• Men are not made religious by performing certain actions which are externally good, but they must first have righteous principles, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.

  Martin Luther

  Religious, Men, Evil

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• He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great. Failure is the true test of greatness. And if it be said, that continual success is a proof that a man wisely knows his powers,--it is only to be added, that, in that case, he knows them to be small.

  Herman Melville

  Success, Greatness, Men

  Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Julian Hawthorne (2015). “Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences and Extensive Biographies: Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned American Novelist, Author of “The Scarlet Letter”, “The House of Seven Gables” and “Twice-Told Tales””, p.1775, e-artnow

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• All who strive to live for something beyond mere selfish aims find their capacities for doing good very inadequate to their aspirations. They do so much less than they want to do, and so much less than they, at the outset, expected to do, that their lives, viewed retrospectively, inevitably look like failure.

  Lydia M. Child

  Selfish, People, Looks

  Letter to John Fraser, 1868.

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• There have been others also just as true and devoted to the cause--I wish I could name every one--but with such women consecratingtheir lives, failure is impossible!

  Susan B. Anthony

  Dedication, Names, Wish

  Lynn Sherr, Susan B. Anthony (1995). “Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words”, Crown

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• The wretchedness of failure is the great attraction of success.

  Mason Cooley

  Success, Wretchedness, Attraction

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• Failures are easier to repeat than successes.

  Mason Cooley

  Success, Easier, Repeats

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• Small successes are still successes; great failures are still failures.

  Mason Cooley

  Success, Stills, Small Successes

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• A failure teaches you that something can't be done-that way.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Done, Way, Teach

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• I never view mistakes as failures. They are simply opportunities to find out what doesn't work.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Mistake, Opportunity, Views

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• The insolence of base minds in success is boundless; and would scarce admit of a comparison, did not they themselves furnish us with one in the degrees of their abjection when evil returns upon them.

  Laurence Sterne

  Success, Evil, Mind

  Laurence Sterne (1872). “The Complete Works of Laurence Sterne: With a Life of the Author”, p.301

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• Great individuals make great successes out of failure.

  Denis Waitley

  Motivational, Greatness, Individual

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• If you're going to define me properly, you must think in terms of my failures as well as my successes.

  Harrison Ford

  Success, Thinking, Term

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