William Arthur Ward Quotes
Failure is delay, but not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead-end street.William Arthur Ward
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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.
Gail Sheehy -
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.
Fabrizio Moreira -
You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed.
Napoleon Hill -
I didn't allow failure to break my heart. So I wouldn't allow success to bloat my head.
Randeep Hooda -
Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
Dale Carnegie -
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.
B. F. Skinner
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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.
Tamara Feldman -
Remember that failure is an event, not a person.
Zig Ziglar -
My film directorial career has been nothing but repetition of one failure after another!
Takeshi Kitano -
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.
Natalie Massenet -
What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.
Wendell Phillips -
Translation is the art of failure.
Umberto Eco
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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.
Adam Grant -
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
Abraham Lincoln -
Being human means you will make mistakes. And you will make mistakes, because failure is God's way of moving you in another direction.
Oprah Winfrey -
He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
The whole history of religion is a history of the failure of preaching. Preaching is moral violence.
Alan Watts -
I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.
Mason Cooley
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The rules of engagement when I was in Afghanistan were very flexible. When you're at war, you're at war.
Brandon Webb -
The supreme adventure in a man’s life is his journey back to his Creator. To reach the goal he needs well developed and co-ordinated functioning of his body, senses, mind, reason and Self.
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar -
The other deals with my life and my livelihood and my family and all that I stand for.
Rafael Palmeiro -
The Internet is a really strange place to be.
Justin Timberlake NSYNC -
I don't feel too bad. I don't know what that amounts to, but I do feel better than I did last year.
Corey Dillon -
Failure is delay, but not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead-end street.
William Arthur Ward