Failure Quotes - Page 38

• 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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• The guy who takes a chance, who walks the line between the known and unknown, who is unafraid of failure, will succeed.

  Gordon Parks

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• The highest happiness on earth is marriage. Every man who is happily married is a successful man even if he has failed in everything else.

  William Lyon Phelps

  Happiness, Marriage, Successful

  William Lyon Phelps (2016). “Marriage”, p.7, Read Books Ltd

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• In business, the earning of profit is something more than an incident of success. It is an essential condition of success. It is an essential condition of success because the continued absence of profit itself spells failure.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Business, Essentials, Earning

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• It is eminently a weariable faculty, eminently delicate, and incapable of bearing fatigue; so that if we give it too many objects at a time to employ itself upon, or very grand ones for a long time together, it fails under the effort, becomes jaded, exactly as the limbs do by bodily fatigue, and incapable of answering any farther appeal till it has had rest.

  John Ruskin

  Time, Long, Giving

  John Ruskin (1850). “Modern Painters: pt. 4. Of many things”, p.139

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• A preacher was operated on for a hernia. As this was about the time of the first world war he was given ether. As he was coming out of the anesthetic a fire broke out in the building next door. As the flames began to show through the hospital windows the nurse pulled the shades down. She didn't want the preacher to think his operation had been a failure.

  Art Linkletter

  Time, War, Thinking

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• The contented have time to worry about trivialities; often to the extent that they never achieve anything worthwhile.

  Jules Eckert Goodman

  Worry, Achieve, Triviality

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• ...we should always act as if it were impossible to fail.

  Eric Butterworth

  Fear, Impossible, Failing

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• Show me someone content with mediocrity and I'll show you someone destined for failure.

  Johnnetta B. Cole

  Inspirational, Mediocrity, Show Me

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• I think it's one of the main negative emotional ingredients that fuels show business, because there's so much at stake and the fear of failure looms large.

  Garry Shandling

  Emotional, Thinking, Negative

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• It is not failure itself that holds you back; it is the fear of failure that paralyzes you.

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Motivational, Fear Of Failure

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Aug 09, 2012

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• I still take failure very seriously, but I've found that the only way I could overcome the feeling is to keep on working, and trying to benefit from failures or disappointments. There are always some lessons to be learned. So I keep on working.

  Denton Cooley

  Disappointment, Science, Lessons To Be Learned

  "Presidential Medal of Freedom". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. April 11, 1991.

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• Most successful people can identify one minute, one moment, where their lives changed, and it usually occurred in times of adversity.

  Willie Jolley

  Life Changing, Adversity, Successful

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• All significant achievement comes from daring from experiment from the willingness to risk failure.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Achievement, Risk, Significant

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• We must expect to fail...but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.

  Theodore Wilhelm Engstrom

  Mistake, Learning, Benefits

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• All failures - neurotics, psychotics, criminals, drunkards, problem children, suicides, perverts, and prostitutes - are failures because they are lacking in social interest

  Alfred Adler

  Suicide, Children, Criminals

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• Of all failures, to fail in a witticism is the worst, and the mishap is the more calamitous in a drawn-out and detailed one

  Walter Savage Landor

  Failing, Mishaps, Worst

  Walter Savage Landor (1824). “Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen”, p.311

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• When success turns a man's head he faces failure

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Men, Faces, Turns

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• Be true to yourself and you will never fail.

  Stephen LaBerge

  Be True To Yourself, Failing, Being True

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• One word characterizes the most strenuous of the efforts for the advancement of science that I have made perservereingly during fifty-five years; that word is failure

  Eric Hoffer

  Years, Effort, Advancement

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• Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success

  Eric Hoffer

  Successful, Guarantees, Persons

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• Every fair from fair sometime declines

  William Shakespeare

  Love Poems, Decline, Wedding Ceremony

  Sonnet 18

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• Maybe love won't let you down. All of your failures are training grounds and just as your back's turned, you'll be surprised... as your solitude subsides.

  Jenny Lewis

  Solitude, Training, Maybe Love

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• God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the sea, And rides upon the storm. Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs, And works his sovereign will. Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds ye so much dread Are big with mercy, and shall break In blessings on your head. Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, But trust him for his grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face.

  William Cowper

  Courage, Moving, Blessing

  Olney Hymns "Light Shining Out of Darkness" l. 1 (1779)

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