William Arthur Ward Quotes
Failure is delay, but not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead-end street.
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In my memoir, I admit that I've been as fearful of success as of failure. In fact, when 'Passages' was published, I so dreaded bad reviews that I ran away to Italy with a girlfriend and our children to hide out.
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Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
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I grew and learned, journeyed and understood, that someone who is afraid of failing won't get anywhere, and someone who dares to do it runs the risk of failure if they don't learn, correct their mistakes, and get back up.
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You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed.
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I didn't allow failure to break my heart. So I wouldn't allow success to bloat my head.
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Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
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Moviewise, I would love to make the story of princess Erendira. She was a 16 year old princess/warrior who led her tribe in war against the Spanish around 1513. She almost defeated them, and the Tarascans were the only tribe the Aztecs couldn't defeat.
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Remember that failure is an event, not a person.
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My film directorial career has been nothing but repetition of one failure after another!
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Having the positive belief that it will all be O.K. just means that you hustle and make it work because failure is not even an option in your own mind.
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What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.
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Translation is the art of failure.
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The more important argument against grade curves is that they create an atmosphere that's toxic by pitting students against one another. At best, it creates a hypercompetitive culture, and at worst, it sends students the message that the world is a zero-sum game: Your success means my failure.
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My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
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Being human means you will make mistakes. And you will make mistakes, because failure is God's way of moving you in another direction.
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He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.
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The whole history of religion is a history of the failure of preaching. Preaching is moral violence.
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Love lost is a special kind of failure, I think. It's a reminder that some consummations, no matter how devoutly wished for, never come; that some apes will never be men, not in all the world's ages.
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If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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He took over, and he said: 'If I have to shoot 200,000 students to save China from another 100 years of disorder, so be it.'
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I'm not crazy about arenas just because I can sell them out. It doesn't do anything for my ego at all. I want to play places where people don't have to sit in the nosebleed seats and wonder what the hell is going on.
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I have learned that nothing is certain except for the need to have strong risk management, a lot of cash, the willingness to invest even when the future is unclear, and great people.
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Failure is delay, but not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead-end street.
