Quotes with failure

Quotes 141 till 160 of 289.

  • William Feather No man is a failure who is enjoying life.
    William Feather
    American writer, businessman (1889 - 1981)
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  • Henry Miller No matter how vast, how total, the failure of man here on earth, the work of man will be resumed elsewhere. War leaders talk of resuming operations on this front and that, but man's front embraces the whole universe.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • David O. McKay No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
    David O. McKay
    American religious leader and educator (1951 - 1970)
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  • James Russell Lowell Not failure, but low aim, is crime.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • P. J. O'Rourke Nothing bad is going to happen to us. If we get fired, it's not failure; its a midlife vocational reassessment.
    P. J. O'Rourke
    American journalist (1947 - )
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  • Margaret Drabble Nothing fails like failure.
    The Millstone (2013) 81
    Margaret Drabble
    English novelist, biographer, and critic (1939 - )
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  • Kenneth Boulding Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.
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  • Bram Stoker Nothing is too small. I counsel you, put down in record even your doubts and surmises. Hereafter it may be of interest to you to see how true you guess. We learn from failure, not from success!
    Dracula (1897) Professor Abraham Van Helsing to Dr. John Seward
    Bram Stoker
    Irish author (1847 - 1912)
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  • S. I. Hayakawa Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.
    S. I. Hayakawa
    Canada-American Senator (1902 - 1992)
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  • Maxwell Maltz Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.
    Maxwell Maltz
    American surgeon and author (1889 - 1975)
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  • Bhagavad Gita On this path effort never goes to waste, and there is no failure. Even a little effort toward spiritual awareness will protect you from the greatest fear.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • John W. Gardner One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
    John W. Gardner
    American Educator, Social Activist (1912 - 2002)
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  • Abraham H. Maslow One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.
    Abraham H. Maslow
    American psychologist (1908 - 1970)
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  • Adam Schiff Our failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq thus far has been deeply troubling, and our intelligence-gathering process needs thorough and unbiased investigation.
    Adam Schiff
    American lawyer and politician (1960 - )
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  • Francis Chan Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter.
    Francis Chan
    American writer (1967 - )
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  • Thomas Troward Our repeated failure to fully act as we would wish must not discourage us. It is the sincere intention that is the essential thing, and this will in time release us from the bondage of habits which at present seem almost insuperable.
    Thomas Troward
    English author (1847 - 1916)
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  • Lao-Tzu People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.
    Lao-Tzu
    Chinese philosopher (600 - 550)
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  • Edward Eggleston Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.
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  • Bill Clinton Pessimism is an excuse for not trying and a guarantee to a personal failure.
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Sir John Harvey Planning is an unnatural process; it is much more fun to do something. The nicest thing about not planning is that failure comes as a complete surprise, rather than being preceded by a period of worry and depression.
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