Failure Quotes - Page 39

• Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.

  Al Franken

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Al Franken (2002). “Oh, the Things I Know!”, p.14, Penguin

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• A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Education, Work, Live Life

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.96, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.

  Sigmund Freud

  America, World, Failing

  "Freud: the Man and his Cause". Book by Ronald W. Clark, 1980.

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• Bad excuses are worse than none.

  Thomas Fuller

  Motivation, Apology, Service Culture

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  Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

  Andre Gide

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Andre Gide (2012). “The Counterfeiters: A Novel”, p.353, Vintage

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• It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.

  Andre Gide

  Life, Work, Adversity

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• I really don't think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don't mind the failure but I can't imagine that I'd forgive myself if I didn't try.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  Nikki Giovanni (1988). “Sacred cows-- and other edibles”, William Morrow & Co

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• Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

  William Goldman

  Life, Sad, Death

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride: An Illustrated Edition of S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure”, p.364, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Motivational, Success, Perseverance

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• The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.

  Samuel Gompers

  Business, People, Liberty

  "Bionomics: Economy as Business Ecosystem". Book by Michael L Rothschild, p. 115, 1990.

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• Failure is a great teacher, and I think when you make mistakes and you recover from them and you treat them as valuable learning experiences, then you've got something to share.

  Steve Harvey

  Relationship, Success, Faith

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

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• Paralyze resistance with persistence.

  Woody Hayes

  Perseverance, Adversity, Not Giving Up

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• To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it.

  William Hazlitt

  Giving, Doubt, Reason

  William Hazlitt (1845). “Table Talk: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things”, p.174

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• He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

  Joseph Heller

  Men, Self, Effort

  1961 Of Colonel Cargill. Catch-22, ch.3.

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• I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?

  Ernest Hemingway

  Love, Life, Inspiring

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• But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Motivational, Inspiring, Fear

  The Old Man and the Sea (1952)

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• Every adversity, every failure, and every heartache, carries with it the Seed of an equivalent or greater Benefit.

  Napoleon Hill

  Life, Motivational, Positive

  Napoleon Hill, Steve Berges (2010). “Think and Grow Rich: Collector's Edition”, p.118, American Liberty Press

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• Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

  Lou Holtz

  Motivational, Sports, Cheer

  Twitter post from Dec 28, 2011

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• The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it.

  E. W. Howe

  Life, Gratitude, Appreciation

  "Top Performance". Book by Zig Ziglar (p. 64), September 1, 2004.

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  To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing and be nothing.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Little Journeys to the Homes of American Statesmen" by Elbert Hubbard, (p. 370), 1898.

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• Several excuses are always less convincing than one.

  Aldous Huxley

  Inspirational, Life, Excuse

  Point Counter Point (1928) ch. 1

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• In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option. We need to change this attitude toward failure - and celebrate the idea that only by falling on our collective business faces do we learn enough to succeed down the road.

  Naveen Jain

  Attitude, Fall, Ideas

  FaceBook post by Naveen Jain from Aug 19, 2016

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  You have to be able to accept failure to get better.

  LeBron James

  Basketball, Inspiration, Get Better

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• Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Government, Giving, Credit

  Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson (1988). “Paine and Jefferson on Liberty”, p.22, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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