Failure Quotes - Page 37

• If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the good things that happened in my life.

  Arthur Ashe

  Life, Sports, Adversity

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• Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Philosophical, Destiny

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• Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all.

  Charles Babbage

  Errors, Mathematical Logic, Data

  Attributed to Charles Babbage in William Kenneth Richmond "The Education Industry", 1969.

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• Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

  Francis Bacon

  Truth, Frustration, Errors

  Francis Bacon (1855). “The Novum Organon,: Or a True Guide to the Interpretation of Nature”, p.336

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• The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates.

  Dave Barry

  Fashion, Humorous, Fall

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Greatest Hits”, p.166, Ballantine Books

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• You can only be as good as you dare to be bad.

  John Barrymore

  Fear, Risk, Innovation

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• Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, Strength, Success

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• Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspiring, Disappointment, Creativity

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• The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Real, Men, Excuse

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.84

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• All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

  Tony Benn

  War, Diplomats, Diplomacy

  Tony Benn's Speech in House of Commons, hansard.millbanksystems.com. February 28, 1991.

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• A loser doesn't know what he'll do if he loses, but talks about what he'll do if he wins, and a winner doesn't talk about what he'll do if he wins, but knows what he'll do if he loses.

  Eric Berne

  Inspirational, Winning, Victory

  Eric Berne (2010). “What Do You Say After You Say Hello”, p.235, Random House

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• A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Inspiring, Success, Men

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• I don't understand a way to work other than bold-facedly running towards failure.

  Cate Blanchett

  Running, Romance, Way

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• An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.

  Niels Bohr

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Education

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• Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.

  Phillips Brooks

  Patience, Short Life, Life Is Too Short

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• Better have failed in the high aim, as I, Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed As, God be thanked! I do not.

  Robert Browning

  Succeed, Lows, Aim

  Richard Cronin, Robert Browning, Dorothy McMillan (2015). “Robert Browning”, p.538, Oxford University Press, USA

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• If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Children, Teaching, Way

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• I was afraid of being a failure, of not having the best time or of being chicken. But every year I get older I think, What was I fearing last year?' You forget. And then you move on.

  Sandra Bullock

  Moving, Thinking, Years

  "Sandra Bullock: My mother raised me not to depend on a man for anything". Interview with Garth Pearce, www.express.co.uk. October 12, 2013.

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• When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed the point.

  Maria Callas

  Music, Wisdom, Heart

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• No pressure, no diamonds.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Uplifting, Good Life, Inspiration

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• The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Courage, Strong

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Nathan Haskell Dole, George Henry Lewes, Thomas Carlyle, John Storer Cobb (1902*). “The Works of Goethe”

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• There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Inspirational, Money, Life And Love

  Andrew Carnegie (1968). “Miscellaneous Writings of Andrew Carnegie”

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• The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.

  Dale Carnegie

  Thinking, People, Worry

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• Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

  Coco Chanel

  Inspirational, Success, Hater

  "You've Got Style : Your Personal Guide for Relating to Others‎". Book by Robert Rohm (p. 29), 2000.

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