Success Failure Quotes - Page 3

• Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Motivational, Wisdom, Perseverance

  Quoted in Quotable Calvin Coolidge, ed. Peter Hannaford (2001).

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• Failure seems to be nature's plan for preparing us for great responsibilities.

  Napoleon Hill

  Failure, Responsibility, Plans

  "Napoleon Hill's Positive Action Plan: 365 Meditations For Making Each Day a Success".

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• Success isn't permanent and failure isn't fatal.

  Mike Ditka

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them.

  Walt Disney

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "How to Be Like Walt : Capturing the Magic Every Day of Your Life". Book by Pat Williams, 2004.

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• The world is full of educated derelicts.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Perseverance, Determination, Persistence

  Quoted in Quotable Calvin Coolidge, ed. Peter Hannaford (2001).

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• If at first you don't succeed, you're obviously not me.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Success, Inspirational Sports, Firsts

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• It is not the critic who counts

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Courage, Military, Failure

  Address at the Sorbonne, Paris, 23 Apr. 1910. Richard M. Nixon quoted this passage in his address to the nation announcing his decision to resign the presidency, 8 Aug. 1974. See Theodore Roosevelt 1; Theodore Roosevelt 2; Theodore Roosevelt 5

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• If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again.

  William Edward Hickson

  Inspirational, Success, Perseverance

  "Try and Try Again". Poem by William Edward Hickson,

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• Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

  J. K. Rowling

  Failure, Energy, Finishing

  J.K. Rowling (2015). “Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination”, p.37, Hachette UK

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• You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone.

  Johnny Cash

  Mistake, Failure, Use

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Judge your success by what you had to give up to get it.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Success, Giving Up, Life Lesson

  H. Jackson Brown Jr. (2007). “Complete Life's Little Instruction Book: 1,560 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life”, p.236, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The only people who never fail are those who never try

  Ilka Chase

  Inspirational, Positive, Failure

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• If at first you don't succeed, try management.

  Stephen Hawking

  Success, Perseverance, Persistence

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• Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

  Quoted in Quotable Calvin Coolidge, ed. Peter Hannaford (2001).

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• Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.

  Dalai Lama

  Success, Spiritual, Buddhist

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• The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.

  Sven-Goran Eriksson

  Inspirational, Confidence, Motivation

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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

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Success

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• Just because you fail once doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Perseverance, Courage, Failure

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• We seem to gain wisdom more readily through our failures than through our successes. We always think of failure as the antithesis of success, but it isn't. Success often lies just the other side of failure.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Wisdom, Lying, Failure

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• Do what you can, with what you have and do it now!

  George Washington Carver

  New Beginnings, Today Not Tomorrow, Words Of Wisdom

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• Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Freedom, Mistake, Struggle

  Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• If you're not prepared to be wrong, you're not prepared to be original.

  Ken Robinson

  Failure, Creativity, Originality

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• We are all failures - at least the best of us are.

  James M. Barrie

  Inspirational, Moving On, Success

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• Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure.

  Thomas Watson, Jr.

  Success, Encouraging, Simple

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• Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Success

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Eark Nightingale, Claude M. Bristol, Napoleon Hill (2017). “Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS02”, p.38, Lulu.com

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