Quotes with failure

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  • Ben Okri The worst time was 1983. Love and life and everything went wrong. I reached absolute rock bottom. I saw the Minotaur at the bottom of the abyss. I learnt of the harshness of the world and its impartiality to human failure.
    Ben Okri
    Nigerian poet and novelist (1959 - )
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  • James Baldwin The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Colin Powell There are no secrets to success: don’t waste time looking for them. Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty to those for whom you work, and persistence.
    Colin Powell
    American elder statesman and four-star general (1937 - 2021)
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  • William James There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Elbert Hubbard There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no insurmountable barrier except our own inherent weakness of purpose.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Barbara Ward There is no human failure greater than to launch a profoundly important endeavour and then leave it half done.
    Barbara Ward
    British economist
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  • Eric Hoffer There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Tony Robbins There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.
    Tony Robbins
    American author, entrepreneur, philanthropist and life coach (1960 - )
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  • Anthony Robbins There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.
    Anthony Robbins
    American author, entrepreneur, philanthropist and life coach (1960 - )
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  • John Keats There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.
    John Keats
    English poet (1795 - 1821)
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  • George Eliot There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Bill Wulf There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend the whole.
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  • Oprah Winfrey Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.
    Oprah Winfrey
    American TV host, Actress (1954 - )
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  • Napoleon Hill Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Albert Claude This attempt to isolate cell constituents might have been a failure if they had been destroyed by the relative brutality of the technique employed. But this did not happen.
    Albert Claude
    Belgian-American cell biologist and doctor (1899 - 1983)
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  • Michael Korda This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.
    Michael Korda
    American publisher (1933 - )
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  • Brooks Atkinson This nation was built by men who took risks - pioneers who were not afraid of the wilderness, business men who were not afraid of failure, scientists who were not afraid of the truth, thinkers who were not afraid of progress, dreamers who were not afraid of action.
    Brooks Atkinson
    American theatre critic (1894 - 1984)
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  • Bryan Adams Thoughts are things; they have tremendous power. Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure. When you conquer negative attitudes of doubt and fear you conquer failure. Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances.
    Bryan Adams
    Canadian singer, songwriter, record producer and guitarist (1959 - )
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  • Napoleon Hill Through some strange and powerful principle of ''mental chemistry'' which she has never divulged, nature wraps up in the impulse of strong desire, ''that something'' which recognizes no such word as ''impossible,'' and accepts no such reality as failure.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • James Allen To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.
    James Allen
    British philosophical writer (1864 - 1912)
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