684 private quotes tagged failure

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

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

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“A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.” — Elbert Hubbard

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“I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.” — Michael Jordan

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“Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.” — Oprah Winfrey

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“Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.” — John Dewey

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“Keep your head up in failure, and your head down in success.” — Jerry Seinfeld

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“It's not a very high failure rate if you choose people that you really like the sound of.” — Bryan Ferry

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“There are no mistakes, save one: the failure to learn from a mistake.” — Robert Fripp

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“Who I am as a guitarist is defined by my failure to become Jimi Hendrix.” — John Mayer

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“I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.” — Oprah Winfrey

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

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“Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.” — H. G. Wells

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“Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.” — Benjamin Franklin

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“The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.” — Napoleon Hill

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“Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.” — Ambrose Bierce

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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 agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.” — Ambrose Bierce

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“No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.” — Napoleon Hill

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“I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.” — George Burns

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“I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.” — George Eliot

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“Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.” — Napoleon Hill

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“My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.” — Harry S. Truman

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“Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.” — Andy Grove

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