684 private quotes tagged failure

“The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.” — Elbert Hubbard

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“Failure is simply an opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.” — Henry Ford

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“I’ve failed over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” — Michael Jordan

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“Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in raising up every time we fail.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might has well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.” — J. K. Rowling

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“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” — Confucius

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“The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.” — Buddha

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“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” — Winston Churchill

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“Success comes when people act together; failure tends to happen alone.” — Deepak Chopra

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“Failure is the key to success each mistake teaches us something.” — Morihei Ueshiba

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“Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.” — Confucius

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“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

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“There is no failure except in no longer trying.” — Elbert Hubbard

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“My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.” — Abraham Lincoln

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“Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” — Thomas A. Edison

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“I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.” — Paulo Coelho

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“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” — Samuel Beckett

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“When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure.” — Jack Lemmon

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“There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.” — Tony Robbins

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“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” — Winston Churchill

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“Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.” — John Wooden

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“I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.” — Tony Robbins

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“The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.” — H. L. Mencken

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“Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.” — Thomas A. Edison

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