Failures Quotes
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Writing offers fairly large rewards to a few successful people, but the rewards come late, and most writers are failures.
Malcolm Cowley
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Rooting for other people's failure does get in the way of your success...when you can wish good things for people and rejoice when they get it, so many gifts and blessings come to you that you can't even imagine.
Amy Poehler
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Most so called FAILURES are only temporary defeats.
Napoleon Hill
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If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few. The future depends on what we do in the present.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Most of our failures in understanding one another have less to do with what is heard than with what is intended and what is inferred.
George Armitage Miller
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The failures of urban renewal reflect a failure at all levels of government to realize that people, not structures, really determine a city’s success.
Edward Glaeser
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I have never worked for fame or praise, and shall not feel their loss as I otherwise would. I have never for a moment lost sight of the humble life I was born to, its small environments, and the consequently little right I had to expect much of myself, and shall have the less to censure, or upbraid myself with for the failures I must see myself make.
Clara Barton
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The only way to security for Israel and a humane life for Palestinians in their own land is political. No matter where the fault for past negotiating failures lies, there is no other path.
Anthony Lewis
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Many days you will want to give up because of rejections and failures. Passion to be an artist will help you prevail where others fail.
Jack White The White Stripes
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We totally misunderstand both his aims and his contribution if we try to read into Marx some anticipation of either the modest successes or the disastrous failures of those who later thought they were acting in his name.
Allen W. Wood
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I'm going to have setbacks and failures; I'm not going to see change right away all of the time or most of the time. But everybody I've ever respected has failed at one thing or another. I've definitely fallen on my face. But I've also had a comparatively easy life.
Cory Booker
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One of the failures of technology companies is that they build technologies thinking everything else will work out.
Steve Jobs
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Failures and setbacks are inevitable for all of us.
Alex Smith
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Most of us go through life as failures, because we are waiting for the 'time to be right' to start doing something worthwhile. Do not wait. The time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
Napoleon Hill
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Perceived self-efficacy also shapes causal thinking. In seeking solutions to difficult problems, those who perceived themselves as highly efficacious are inclined to attribute their failures to insufficient effort, whereas those of comparable skills but lower perceived self-efficacy ascribe their failures to deficient ability.
Albert Bandura
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Setbacks and fear are inevitable. The thing that distinguishes the ultimate successes from the ultimate failures is this: What do you do with them?
Blake Mycoskie
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Success is outliving your failures
Erma Bombeck
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Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives.
Ed Bliss
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We Irish are born dreamers; sometimes we never wake up at all, and then we're counted failures.
Katherine Cecil Thurston
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Success and failure are largely self-defined in terms of personal standards. The higher the self-standards, the more likely will given attainments be viewed as failures, regardless of what others might think.
Albert Bandura
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I treat winning and losing exactly the same. I see them both as necessary steps to get us where we are going. Big failures big lessons little failures little lessons.
Bob Proctor
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Recognize that there will be failures, and acknowledge that there will be obstacles. But you will learn from your mistakes and the mistakes of others, for there is very little learning in success.
Michael Dell
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I've never held myself up particularly high when I had movies that worked, and I never held myself all that low when I had failures.
Ben Affleck
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Never having failed, I could not picture what failure meant.
Nellie Bly