Quotes with failures

Quotes 21 till 40 of 67.

  • Oprah Winfrey If all this happened to you what paradigm might you develop? How might that paradigm affect you in terms of your life from that point on? What does this tell you about Abe? There are no failures, only lessons to be learned.
    Oprah Winfrey
    American TV host, Actress (1954 - )
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  • Richard D. Rosen If anything characterizes the cultural life of the seventies in America, it is an insistence on preventing failures of communication.
    Richard D. Rosen
    American author
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  • Calvin Coolidge If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Arthur Miller If I have any justification for having lived it's simply, I'm nothing but faults, failures and so on, but I have tried to make a good pair of shoes. There's some value in that.
    Arthur Miller
    American Dramatist (1915 - 2005)
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  • Agnes Repplier In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are not faults! Now we are taught from infancy that we must rise or fall upon our own merits; that vigilance wins success, and incapacity means ruin.
    Agnes Repplier
    American writer and social criticus (1855 - 1950)
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  • Samuel Smiles It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.
    Samuel Smiles
    Scottish writer (1812 - 1904)
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  • Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
    Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
    American journalist, essayist and memoirist (1934 - 2002)
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  • Lewis Mumford Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.
    Lewis Mumford
    American social philosopher (1895 - 1990)
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  • Thomas Alva Edison Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • William Arthur Ward Men never plan to be failures; they simply fail to plan to be successful.
    William Arthur Ward
    American writer and poet (1921 - 1994)
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  • Jean Baudrillard Mistakes, scandals, and failures no longer signal catastrophe. The crucial thing is that they be made credible, and that the public be made aware of the efforts being expended in that direction. The ''marketing'' immunity of governments is similar to that of the major brands of washing powder.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • George Washington Carver Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
    George Washington Carver
    American botanist and inventor (1864 - 1943)
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller Of course, our failures are a consequence of many factors, but possibly one of the most important is the fact that society operates on the theory that specialization is the key to success, not realizing that specialization precludes comprehensive thinking.
    Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (1963)
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Vince Lombardi Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures.
    Vince Lombardi
    American football player (1913 - 1970)
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  • Anton Chekhov One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.
    Anton Chekhov
    Russian playwright and short story writer
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  • Eric Hoffer Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping. We see our past achievements as the end results of
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Oscar Wilde People who love only once in their lives are shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination. Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failures.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Ezra Pound Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Edwin C. Bliss Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives. It means winning the war, not every battle.
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  • Albert Gray Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures don't like to do.
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