Failure Quotes: Embracing Life's Lessons (Page 3)

"Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results"

William James, Philosopher

"Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities"

Walter Scott, Novelist

"In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure"

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Poet

"I believe in trusting men, not only once but twice - in giving a failure another chance"

James Cash Penney, Businessman

"Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

"War remains the decisive human failure"

John Kenneth Galbraith, Economist

"Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed"

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Actor

"Success isn't permanent and failure isn't fatal"

Mike Ditka, Coach

"Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal"

Don Shula, Coach

"Not failure, but low aim, is crime"

James Russell Lowell, Poet

"Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime"

James Russell Lowell, Poet

"If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless"

Robert H. Schuller, Clergyman

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

Robert H. Schuller, Clergyman

"It's how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success"

Charlotte Whitton, Politician

"Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself"

Charlie Chaplin, Actor

"Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure"

Thomas Edison, Inventor

"Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes"

John Dewey, Philosopher

"Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility"

Susan Sontag, Author

"Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo"

Camille Paglia, Author

"While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure"

Bryant H. McGill, Author

"I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success"

J. Paul Getty, Businessman

"If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure"

H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Author

"As kids we're not taught how to deal with success; we're taught how to deal with failure. If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. If at first you succeed, then what?"

Charlie Sheen, Actor

"Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day"

Jim Rohn, Businessman

"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, Businessman

"I'm hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure"

George W. Bush, President

"If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style"

Quentin Crisp, Writer

"Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it"

Mia Hamm, Athlete

"There's no right or wrong, success or failure"

Miley Cyrus, Musician

"The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism"

Earl Warren, Judge

"Fear of failure has always been my best motivator"

Douglas Wood, Writer

"Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God"

Abraham Joshua Heschel, Educator

"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, Writer

"It's not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail"

Jimmy Carter, President

"It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second"

John Steinbeck, Author

"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, Author

"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, Writer

"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, Psychologist

"Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit"

Napoleon Hill, Writer

"Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure"

Earl Wilson, Athlete

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