Success Failure Quotes - Page 5

The real test is not whether you avoid failure, because you won't. It's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it. . .

Barack Obama

Patience, Perseverance, Real

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Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas A. Edison

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

"From Telegraph to Light Bulb with Thomas Edison". Book by Deborah Headstrom-Page, 2007.

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You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.

Mary Pickford

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

"Why Not Try God?", Chapter 6 (newspaper serial) in St. Petersburg Times, sect. 2, p. 3, news.google.com. January 25, 1936.

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Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.

Donald Trump

Success, Veterans Day, Motivation

Donald Trump (2016). “Trump: The Art of the Deal”, p.165, Random House

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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

Success, Time, Mistake

Napoleon Hill (2008). “The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams”, p.112, Penguin

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Men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed.

Lloyd Jones

Inspirational, Success, Courage

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Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.

Dale Carnegie

Inspirational, Success, Encouraging

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Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.

George Edward Woodberry

Inspirational, Success, Motivational Sports

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Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

Bill Gates

Leadership, Business, Motivation

Bill Gates (2009). “Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy”, p.86, Hachette UK

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An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

Charles Kettering

Life, Motivational, Positive

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Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

Oprah Winfrey

Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

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If you want to succeed, double your failure rate.

Thomas J. Watson

Inspirational, Giving Up, Failure

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To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Inspirational, Life, Success

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I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

Booker T. Washington

Inspirational, Life, Success

Booker T. Washington (1901). “An Autobiography: The Story of My Life and Work, the Original Brought Up-to-date with Over Half a Hundred Full Page Photo and Halftone Engravings and Drawings by Frank Beard”

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I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.

Herbert Bayard Swope

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Robert H. Schuller

Inspirational, Powerful, Failure

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You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.

Johnny Cash

Life, Bullying, Mistake

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

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A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

Albert Einstein

Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter.

Francis Chan

Inspirational, Inspiring, Success

Francis Chan (2013). “Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God”, p.92, David C Cook

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In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.

Bill Cosby

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

Twitter post from Nov 18, 2009

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Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Winston Churchill

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

Henry Ford

Love, Inspirational, Life

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There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

Colin Powell

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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

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Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

Zig Ziglar

Inspirational, Death, Failure

FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Nov 29, 2014

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Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Confucius

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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