Success And Failure Quotes - Page 9

• Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.

  Dale Dauten

  Enough Time, Possibility, Reverence

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• Rise above the limited conditions of pleasure and pain, success and failure, happiness and sorrow, that all the countless unenlightened beings in creation are slaves to.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Pain, Buddhism

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

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• Success and failure are terrible traps.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Traps

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• No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

  Frederic Farrar

  Lonely, Work, Men

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• But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.

  Bodhidharma

  Success, Mind, Depends

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.5, Macmillan

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• Some of the biggest failures I ever had were successes.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Failure, Success Failure

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• If the Liberal Left can create the common perception that success and failure are simple matters of 'fortune' or 'luck,' then it is easy to promote and justify their various income redistribution schemes.

  Neal Boortz

  Simple, Perception, Luck

  Neal Boortz (2001). “The Terrible Truth about Liberals”, Taylor Trade Pub

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• I was once a welfare recipient and am very aware of the successes and failures of this critical safety net. There are those that would have us believe that those receiving TANF benefits are lazy, shiftless, freeloaders who are just sitting around thinking of another way to suckle from the government teat.

  Gwen Moore

  Believe, Thinking, Government

  "State Waivers for TANF Can Provide True Pathway Out of Poverty" by Gwen Moore, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 23, 2012.

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• The difference between success and failure is often about 5% more effort.

  S. Truett Cathy

  Differences, Effort

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• Let's plunge ourselves into the roar of time, the whirl of accident; may pain and pleasure, success and failure, shift as they will -- it's only action that can make a man.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Pain, Men, May

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• Rich dad went on to explain that the world was filled with different types of entrepreneurs. There are entrepreneurs who are big and small, rich and poor, honest and crooked, for-profit and not-for-profit, saint and sinner, small town and international, and successes and failures. He said, "The word entrepreneur is a big word and it means different things to different people."

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Dad, Business, Mean

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• Ultimately, everyone has to ask himself or herself how they're going to fail. We all do, you know, so let's get that out of the way. The choice isn't between success and failure; it's between choosing risk and striving for greatness, or risking nothing and being certain of mediocrity.

  Keith Ferrazzi

  Greatness, Choices, Risk

  Keith Ferrazzi, Tahl Raz (2014). “Never Eat Alone, Expanded and Updated: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time”, p.61, Crown Business

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• Most of these students are so conditioned to success that they become afraid to take risks. They have been taught from a young age by zealous parents, schools, and institutional authorities what constitutes failure and success. They are socialized to obey. They obsess over grades and seek to please professors, even if what professors teach is fatuous. The point is to get ahead, and getting ahead means deference to authority. Challenging authority is never a career advancer.

  Chris Hedges

  Mean, School, Careers

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• I think the two most difficult things to deal with in life are failure and success

  David Lee Roth

  Thinking, Two, Difficult

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• I don't divide the world into the weak and the strong, or the successes and failures...I divide the world into the learners and non-learners.

  Benjamin Barber

  Inspirational, Life, Strong

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• I was the first records editor at Rolling Stone, and there were no rules. There was nothing to fall back on as to how do you write about this kind of music, so people were trying absolutely everything with a great sense of freedom and experimentation and success and failure, and a feeling of, “My God, people are actually paying attention to this. Let’s pretend they aren’t because we don’t want to be intimidated by what somebody might think of what we’re saying.

  Greil Marcus

  Fall, Writing, Thinking

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• PhD, MFA, self-taught - the only things you must have to become a writer are the stamina to continue and a wily, cagey heart in the face of extremity, failure, and success.

  Alexander Chee

  Heart, Self, Faces

  "'MFA vs NYC': Both, Probably" by Andrew Martin, www.newyorker.com. March 28, 2014.

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• Since you own your life, you are responsible for your life. You do not rent your life from others who demand your obedience. Nor are you a slave to others who demand your sacrifice. You choose your own goals based on your own values. Success and failure are both the necessary incentives to learn and to grow. Your action on behalf of others, or their action on behalf of you, is only virtuous when it is derived from voluntary, mutual consent. For virtue can only exist when there is free choice.

  Ken Schoolland

  Life, Sacrifice, Goal

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• We do not realise that we are children of eternity. If we did, then success would be no success, and failure would be no failure to us.

  Joseph Barber Lightfoot

  Success, Children, Congratulations

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• Remember remain alert that you don't get too much attached to the accidental - and all is accidental except your consciousness. Except your awareness, all is accidental. Pain and pleasure, success and failure, fame and defamation - all is accidental. Only your witnessing consciousness is essential. Stick to it! Get more and more rooted in it. And don't spread your attachment to worldly things.

  Rajneesh

  Pain, Attachment, Essentials

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• There are no successes and failures in life, only achievements - stepping stones.

  Ian Gardner

  Failure, Achievement, Stones

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• Science is experimental, moving forward step-by-step, making trial and learning through success and failure. Is not this also the way of religion, and especially of the Christian religion? The writings of those who preach the religion have from the very beginning insisted that it is to be proved by experience. If a man is drawn towards honour and courage and endurance, justice, mercy, and charity, let him follow the way of Christ and find out for himself. No findings in science hinder him in that way.

  William Henry Bragg

  Christian, Moving, Writing

  Sir William Henry Bragg (1941). “Science and faith, delivered before the University of Durham at King's college, Newcastle upon Tyne, on 7 March 1941”

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• Kipling said that Success and Failure are both imposters, and we should all listen to Kipling, if only because none of us are likely to know anybody else named Rudyard. But having been bitten in my life by the jaws of both victory and defeat, I must rush to add that success is to failure as butter pecan ice cream is to death.

  Rupert Holmes

  Ice Cream, Victory And Defeat, Add

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• Success attracts success and failure attracts failure because of the law of harmonious attraction.

  Napoleon Hill

  Law, Harmonious, Attraction

  Napoleon Hill (1997). “Napoleon Hill's Positive Action Plan: 365 Meditations For Making Each Day a Success”, p.89, Penguin

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• It is the sternest philosophy, but on the whole the truest, that, in the wide arena of the world, failure and success are not accidents, as we so frequently suppose, but the strictest justice.

  Alexander Smith

  Failure, Justice, Accidents

  "Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country".

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