Failure Quotes - Page 37

• In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Fear, Skating On Thin Ice

  Essays "Prudence" (1841)

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• Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others.

  Francois Fenelon

  Complaining, Faults, Pleasure

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• History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

  B. C. Forbes

  Inspirational, Perseverance, Courage

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• When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• What is there to be afraid of? The worst thing that can happen is you fail. So what? I failed at a lot of things. My first record was horrible.

  John Mellencamp

  Motivational, Records, Firsts

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  It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

  Herman Melville

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Herman Melville, Harrison Hayford, G. Thomas Tanselle (1987). “Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces, 1839-1860: Volume Nine, Scholarly Edition”, p.247, Northwestern University Press

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• We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.

  Thomas Merton

  Spiritual, Fall, Inner Peace

  Thomas Merton (2011). “Thoughts In Solitude”, p.53, Macmillan

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• An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

  James A. Michener

  War, Ignorance, Acceptance

  James A. Michener “SPACE”

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• He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

  Arthur Miller

  Character, Attention, Finest

  Death of a Salesman (1949) act 1

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• There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Inspirational, Sad, Depression

  "Finding Viggo" by Alex Kuczynski, Vanity Fair, January 1, 2004.

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• A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

  Lewis Mumford

  Inspirational, Motivational, Courage

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• Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Inspirational, History, No Excuses

  Comments after President John F. Kennedy's inaugural address, January 20, 1961.

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• If you stop struggling, then you stop life.

  Huey Newton

  Life, Struggle, Ifs

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  That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Positive, Strength

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• Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Men, Presidential, Doe

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.

  Sam Walton

  Inspirational, Perseverance, Mistake

  Sam Walton (2012). “Sam Walton: Made In America”, p.39, Bantam

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• No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.

  Epictetus

  Inspirational, Mistake, Matter

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• There are no mistakes, save one: the failure to learn from a mistake.

  Robert Fripp

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• What the mind cab conceive, it can achieve

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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• Failure is success if we learn from it.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• We must radiate success before it will come to us. We must first become mentally, from an attitude standpoint, the people we wish to become.

  Earl Nightingale

  Success, Attitude, People

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• Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

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• People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Life And Love, People

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• If one asks for success and prepares for failure, one will get the situation one has prepared for.

  Florence Scovel Shinn

  Inspirational, Success, Situation

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• If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win.

  Walter Reuther

  Inspirational, Winning, Enough

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