684 private quotes tagged failure

“Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.” — Herbert Kaufman

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“Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act.” — Maxwell Maltz

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“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.” — Andre Malraux

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“I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places - uprightness and strength and courage and civil respect and anything that affects the probabilities of failure on the part of those that are closest to me, that concerns me - I find fault.” — Branch Rickey

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“Any man who has $10,000 left when he dies is a failure.” — Errol Flynn

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“Failure too is a form of death.” — Graham Greene

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“I was never afraid of failure after that because, I think, coming that close to death you get kissed. With the years, the actual experience of course fades, but the flavor of it doesn't. I just had a real sense of what choice do I have but to live fully?” — Debra Winger

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“So many financial dreams are thwarted by the failure to act upon good intentions.” — Suze Orman

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“If you're the type of person who has to fulfill your dreams, you've gotta be resourceful to make sure you can do it. I came out to California when I was 21, thinking my New York credentials would take me all the way. I came back home a year later all dejected and a failure.” — Vin Diesel

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“The only real failure in life is one not learned from.” — Anthony J. D'Angelo

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“The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.” — Norman Cousins

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“But I look at failure as education. In that respect, I am so well-educated.” — Kathy Ireland

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“No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma - but we make out of them just what suits our purposes.” — Alfred Adler

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“You shouldn't be afraid of failure - when something fails, you think, 'What did I learn from that experience? I can do better next time.' Then kill that project and move on to the next. Don't get disappointed.” — Niklas Zennstrom

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“Don't be afraid to fail. Don't waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures and go on to the next challenge. It's OK to fail. If you're not failing, you're not growing.” — H. Stanley Judd

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“One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.” — Thomas Sowell

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“If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.” — Zig Ziglar

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“A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.” — John Burroughs

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“Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.” — Sivananda

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“Remember that failure is an event, not a person.” — Zig Ziglar

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“You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.” — Zig Ziglar

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“Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.” — Jim Rohn

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“Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.” — Colin Powell

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“Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.” — Zig Ziglar

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“Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.” — Denis Waitley

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