Success And Failure Quotes - Page 10

• Opportunities, creative ideas or the lack of them, happiness, frustration, brilliance, talent, success and failure - all are determined by the state of mind that you're in.

  Frederick Lenz

  Frustration, Opportunity, Ideas

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• Watching myself fight, I realize the line between success and failure is so narrow, it's scary.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Fighting, Mma, Scary

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• I think that sometimes the difference between winning and losing, success and failure, is this gray line between will, passion and self-belief that says, 'I'm going to do this'.

  Howard Schultz

  Passion, Thinking, Winning

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• If you have an approach that makes money, then money management can make the difference between success and failure... ... I try to be conservative in my risk management. I want to make sure I'll be around to play tomorrow. Risk control is essential.

  Monroe Trout

  Differences, Play, Risk

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• My story of success and failure is not just about music and being famous. It's about living and loving and trying to find purpose in this crazy world.

  Wynonna Judd

  Crazy, Failure, Trying

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• Humor requires perspective. Perspective requires focus. Focus requires balance. Balance requires attention to the present moment. In the 'now' one is freed from labels. Success and failure, good luck and bad—they're all constructs of your mind.

  Tom Bergeron

  Success, Failure, Humor

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• Somehow, in many of those near-miss instances, I've managed to fight through and continue. But in all these situations, even when they're apparently going well, I feel I am living on the razor's edge between success and failure, adulation and humiliation - between justifying my existence and revealing my unworthiness to be alive.

  Scott Stossel

  Fighting, Missing, Alive

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• Success and failure in our own national economy will hang upon the degree to which we are able to work with races and nations whose social order and whose behavior and attitudes are strange to us.

  Ruth Benedict

  Success, Attitude, Race

  Ruth Benedict (2011). “An Anthropologist at Work”, p.439, Transaction Publishers

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• I am simultaneously and contradictorily both happy and unhappy: 'to succeed' or 'to fail' have for me only ephemeral, contingent meanings (this does not stop my desires and sorrows from being violent ones); what impels me, secretly and obstinately, is not tactical: I accept and I affirm, irrespective of the true and the false, of success and failure; I am withdrawn from all finality, I live according to chance.

  Roland Barthes

  Sorrow, Unhappy, Desire

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• That's what humanity is: a series of successes and failures, a testing of one's own nature and aptitude. Neither the body nor the soul can sustain such a state. Eventually it consumes a person

  Richelle Mead

  Soul, Humanity, Body

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• I needn't tell you that success and failure prove nothing - the whole thing is a lottery. It's pleasant to succeed; but for a philosophic mind it oughtn't to be very upsetting to fail.

  George Sand

  Upset, Mind, Succeed

  Gustave Flaubert, George Sand (1999). “Flaubert-Sand: The Correspondence of Gustave Flaubert & George Sand”, Harvill Press

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• Success and failure are two edges of the same blade, two sides of the same coin. To fear one is to forever deny the possibility of the other.

  Michelle Sagara

  Two Sides, Forever, Coins

  Michelle Sagara (2016). “Cast in Courtlight”, p.217, MIRA

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• Reading has always been the largest and most irreplaceable pleasure for Vincent; reading about other people's successes and failures, joys and sufferings seemed to bury his own failures.

  Irving Stone

  Reading, People, Joy

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• One of the reasons I became a writer is that, unlike starting a band, directing movies, or acting in a theatrical production, you can do it alone. Your success and failure depend entirely on yourself.

  Neil Strauss

  Acting, Band, Directing Movies

  Neil Strauss (2011). “The Game”, p.186, Canongate Books

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• And didn't it always go like that--body parts not lining up the way you wanted them to, all of it a little bit off, as if the world itself were an animated sequence of longing and envy and self-hatred and grandiosity and failure and success, a strange and endless cartoon loop that you couldn't stop watching, because, despite all you knew by now, it was still so interesting.

  Meg Wolitzer

  Self, Envy, Interesting

  Meg Wolitzer (2013). “The Interestings”, p.468, Random House

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• If you had to relive your life exactly as it was – same successes and failures, same happiness, same miseries, same mixture of comedy and tragedy – would you want to? Was it worth it?

  Gavin Extence

  Tragedy, Mixtures, Want

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• the new women in politics seem to be saying that we already know how to lose, thank you very much. Now we want to learn how to win.

  Gloria Steinem

  Winning, Politics, Want

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• What is generally regarded as success - acquisition of wealth, the capture of power or social prestige - I consider the most dismal failures. I hold when it is said of a man that he has arrived, it means that he is finished - his development has stopped at that point.

  Emma Goldman

  Mean, Men, Acquisition

  Alphonso Lingis, Emma Goldman (1996). “Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader”, Humanities Press International

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• Each moment is a miracle encompassing everything: the joy and sorrow, the failure and success, the disappointment and happiness, the celebration and grief.

  Kazuaki Tanahashi

  Disappointment, Grief, Joy

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• You must learn to stop thinking in terms of beginnings and endings, successes and failures, and begin to treat everything in your life as a learning experience instead of a proving one.

  Guy Finley

  Thinking, Treats, Learning Experience

  FaceBook post by Guy Finley from May 03, 2015

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• If optimism is important, it's because many outcomes are determined by how much of it we bring to the task. It is an important ingredient of success. This flies in the face of the elite view that talent is the primary requirement of a good life, but in many cases the difference between success and failure is determined by nothing more than our sense of what is possible and the energy we can muster to convince others of our due. We might be doomed not by a lack of skill, but by an absence of hope!

  Alain de Botton

  Good Life, Views, Skills

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• Success is built on disappointment, and disappointment is inherent in all success.

  Bette Davis

  Disappointment, Inherent, Built

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• The greatest happiness of life was to stand at the difficult border between success and failure.

  Eiji Yoshikawa

  Borders, Life Happiness, Difficult

  Eiji Yoshikawa (2012). “Taiko: An Epic Novel of War and Glory in Feudal Japan”, p.1255, Vertical, Inc.

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• I wanted to make a comment on the obsession with success and failure that we see a lot in America.

  Cameron Crowe

  America, Obsession, Wanted

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• Frequent risk-takers have had their fair shares of failures and successes, hence, being confident in reaching their goals, they will usually seem insensitive to whether or not they look foolish or cool to other people.

  Criss Jami

  People, Goal, Risk

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.18, Criss Jami

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