Failure Quotes - Page 38

• Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Love, Inspirational, Cute

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• How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Encouragement, Clever, Winning

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• Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Mistake, Philosophical, Men

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• Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Sometimes, Failing, Virtue

  "Queers in History: The Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Historical Gays, Lesbians and Bisexuals". Book by Keith Stern, p. 465, 2009.

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• Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Cigarette Smoke, Light, Glowing

  "The Pure and the Impure". Book by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, 1932.

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• Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.

  Confucius

  Life, Success, Mistake

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• The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.

  Confucius

  Moon, Reality, Looks

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• The cautious seldom err.

  Confucius

  Leadership, Mistake, Flaws

  Confucius (2013). “Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean”, p.171, Courier Corporation

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• An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Art, Creative, Positive Thoughts

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• If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Congratulations, Progress, Way

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• I think you have to try and fail, because failure gets you closer to what you're good at.

  Louis C. K.

  Thinking, Trying, Mental Health

  "Q&A: Louis C.K. on 'Louie,' lenses and knowing when you're lucky". latimesblogs.latimes.com. July 7, 2011.

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• Do not fear mistakes. There are none.

  Miles Davis

  Life, Music, Beautiful

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• We only think when we are confronted with problems.

  John Dewey

  Mistake, Thinking, Judging

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• What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expect generally happens.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Political, Politics, Anticipate

  "Henrietta Temple, by the Author of 'Vivian Grey'".

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• Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

  Thomas A. Edison

  Faith, Courage, Father

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• To have a great idea, have a lot of them.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Positive, Smart, Creativity

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• When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Perseverance, Life Lesson

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• Succeeding is not really a life experience that does that much good. Failing is a much more sobering and enlightening experience.

  Michael Eisner

  Life, Experience, Doe

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• 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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• Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Motivational, Determination

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• Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Life, Education

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• You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "International Encyclopedia of Prose and Poetical Quotations". Book by William S. Walsh, 1951.

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