684 private quotes tagged failure

“Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.” — Wilma Rudolph

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“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 Maslow

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“I really don't think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don't mind the failure but I can't imagine that I'd forgive myself if I didn't try.” — Nikki Giovanni

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“It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.” — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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“To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.” — Denis Waitley

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“Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.” — Samuel Beckett

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“Failure is a word unknown to me.” — Muhammad Ali Jinnah

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“All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right about face which turns us from failure to success.” — Dorthea Brande

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“Don't be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.” — Lily Tomlin

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“Every failure is a step to success.” — William Whewell

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“You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. This is done by making an affirmation which 'clicks.'” — Florence Scovel Shinn

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“We failed, but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing.” — Robert E. Lee

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“Success is not built on success. It's built on failure. It's built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe.” — Sumner Redstone

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“For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.” — Mary Kay Ash

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“They who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure.” — James Allen

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“The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide.” — James A. Baldwin

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“It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.” — Roger Babson

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“Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it.” — Mia Hamm

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“Indecision and delays are the parents of failure.” — George Canning

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“A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.” — Alexandre Dumas

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“Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures.” — Bernard Baruch

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“If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.” — Quentin Crisp

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“Success isn't permanent and failure isn't fatal.” — Mike Ditka

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“It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.” — Charles Kettering

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“Show me a good and gracious loser and I'll show you a failure.” — Knute Rockne

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