684 private quotes tagged failure

“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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“Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.” — Napoleon Hill

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“If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.” — Thomas J. Watson

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“All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.” — Jean-Paul Sartre

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“Failure is the path of lease persistence.”

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“Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.” — Coco Chanel

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“Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.” — J. K. Rowling

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“Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.” — Napoleon Hill

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“A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.” — Elbert Hubbard

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“Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.” — C. S. Lewis

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

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“Success and failure are equally disastrous.” — Tennessee Williams

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“Every adversity, every failure, and every heartache, carries with it the Seed of an equivalent or greater Benefit.” — Napoleon Hill

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“No man is a failure who is enjoying life.” — William Feather

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“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.” — Truman Capote

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“My reputation grows with every failure.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure.” — Elbert Hubbard

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“There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.” — George Eliot

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“Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.” — Steve Jobs

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“The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.” — George Eliot

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“What we've got here is a failure to communicate.” — Donn Pearce

Source:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2f-MZ2HRHQ

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“I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.” — Tennessee Williams

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“If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.” — Woody Allen

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“Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.” — Theodore Roosevelt

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“Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.” — Thomas A. Edison

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