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“When you are losing it can seem like there is a black cloud following you around, but like they say there is a silver lining in every cloud.”

Seems Black Failure Losing Clouds Following Silver Black Clouds

Author:Mario Andretti

“You can't succeed unless you've got failure, especially creatively.”

Failure Succeed

Author:Michael Eisner

“It's not the failure that holds us back but the reluctance to begin over again that causes us to stagnate.”

Causes Failure Reluctance

Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes

“When you look at the things people are really fed up with, like the collapse of the pension system, like the failure to get money to the frontline of the health service, Gordon Brown is more responsible for that than any other politician including Tony Blair”

People Looks Failure Politician Responsible Including Brown Feds Collapse Pension Fed Up Get Money Blair Health Services Frontline

Author:George Osborne

“It would be a real failure if agreeing that it [abortion] was not an electoral issue provided an alibi for taking it seriously as a public issue.”

Ifs Real Would Be Issues Failure Abortion

Author:Rowan Williams

“Some drawings are better than others... Some are utterly spoiled... I keep them all. I find a use sometimes even for the worst drawing... But their chief use is to mortify one's conceit, to show how thoroughly incompetent it is possible to be, and to shame one into better ways.”

Way Sometimes Use Shows Worst Failure Shame Drawing Chiefs Conceit Better Ways Spoiled Incompetent

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“Artists know failure. It is not tragic that they know failure; it is only tragic if they know failure and little else.”

Ifs Knows Littles Artist Failure Tragic

Book:Affirmations for Artists

Source: Affirmations for Artists

“I've never been able to contemplate failure. Success is everything.”

Able Failure Contemplating Success Failure

Author:Raymond Blanc

“If people aren't laughing at you, you aren't saying anything very unusual. So let your voice be loud and strong, dare to try things that may fail.”

People Ifs Trying May Strong Voice Laughing Failing Failure Dare Loud Unusual Dare To Try

Author:Joline Godfrey

“Failure is the inspiration of tomorrow's entrepreneurs.”

Inspiration Failure Tomorrow Entrepreneur

Author:St. Jerome

“All honor to him who shall win the prize. The world has cried for a thousand years. But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears.”

World Giving Trying Years Dies Winning Failing Tears Failure Honor Thousand Glory Prize Cried Thousand Years

Book:The Building of the City Beautiful

Source: The Building of the City Beautiful

“Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.”

Men Life Inspirational Motivational Wise Failure Perseverance Defeat Overcoming Failure Inspirational Perseverance Failure Motivational

Author:Josephus Daniels

“A man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies.”

Men Enemy Doubt Worst Failure Worst Enemy Doubt And Fear

Author:William Wrigley, Jr.

“In the lexicon of youth which fate reserves for a bright manhood, there is no such word as fail.”

Fate Failing Youth Failure Reserves Manhood No Failure Lexicon

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“An indispensable hypothesis, even though still far from being a guarantee of success, is however the pursuit of a specific aim, whose lighted beacon, even by initial failures, is not betrayed.”

Stills Success Science Failure Aim Pursuit Guarantees Indispensable Hypothesis Betrayed Initials Beacons

Author:Max Planck

“An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.”

Inspirational Doe Reason Wisdom Truth School Failure Errors Faults Flaws Non Violence Spiritual Truth Propagation Violence And Peace Truth And Reality

Book:All Men Are Brothers

Source: All Men Are Brothers

“It is not the critic who counts...The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.”

“Don't try to cover your mistakes with false words. Rather, correct your mistakes with examination.”

Trying Mistake Failure Examination

Author:Pythagoras

“The man who lives for himself is a failure. Even if he gains much wealth, position or fortune, he is still a failure. The man who lives for others has achieved true success. A rich man who consecrates his wealth and his position to the good of humanity is a success.”

Ifs Men Stills Humanity Wealth Rich Position He Man Failure Gains Fortune Rich Man Success Failure True Success Live For Others

Author:Norman Vincent Peale

“My downfall raises me to infinite heights.”

Failure Infinite Raises Height Downfall

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“We may stop ourselves when going up, never when coming down.”

May Failure

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.”

People Reason Reading Learning Risk Willing Failure Experience Literacy Lifelong Lifelong Learning Learning From Failure Failure Motivational Risk And Failure

Author:John W. Gardner

“Alas, all too often, the dream turns into a mud puddle. I am left looking at a disaster. What to do! Keep working. I ask the Almighty for help. That frees me.”

Helping Dream Turns Asks Left Failure Disaster Almighty Mud Alas Puddles Mud Puddles

Author:Jules Olitski

“American naturalist John Burroughs put it, “A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.”

“The only real failure is trying to second-guess the taste of an audience. Nothing comes out of that except a kind of inward humiliation.”

Trying Kind Real Audience Failure Taste Inward Humiliation

Author:David Bowie

“Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength.”

Wells Failure Islam Dazzling

Author:Karen Armstrong

“It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.”

“I do not believe in a God who would set up rules and commandments only to wait for us to fail so He could punish us. I believe in a Heavenly Father who is loving and caring and who rejoices in our every effort to stand tall and walk toward Him. Even when we stumble, He urges us not to be discouraged-never to give up or flee our allotted field of service-but to take courage, find our faith, and keep trying.”

“The wise man realistically accepts as part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them. He lives on the principle of nothing attempted, nothing gained and is resolved that if he fails he is going to fail while trying to succeed.”

Ifs Men Trying Philosophy Accepting Principles Wise Failing Failure Succeed Parts Of Life Trying To Succeed

Author:Bill Vaughan

“Success is seldom permanent, and failure is seldom fatal. The important thing is to keep trying.”

Trying Important Failure Important Things Permanent Keep Trying

Author:Anna Olson

“An artist's failures are as valuable as his successes: by misjudging one thing he conforms something else, even if at the time he does not know what that something else is.”

Ifs Knows Doe Artist One Thing Failure Valuable Conform

Author:Bridget Riley

“All art is failure. How one fails is a different matter.”

Art Different Matter Failing Failure Art Is

Author:Luc Tuymans

“Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.”

Source: Every Second Counts

“Not all who seem to fail have failed indeed,Not all who fail have therefor worked in vain.There is no failure for the good and brave.”

Seems Failing Failure Brave Vain No Failure

Author:Richard Chenevix Trench

“My problem is that I don't get the same exhiliration from success as I get depression from failure.”

Problem Failure

Author:Steve Martin

“You must expect failure after failure after failure before you succeed.”

Failure Succeed

Author:Edwin Land

“Refreshing failures roll off the travel easel like ants from a picnic blanket.”

Failure Ants Blanket Refreshing Picnics

Author:Sara Genn

“It's okay to fail; it's not okay to quit.”

Failing Failure Okay Quitting Not Okay

Author:Chris Gardner

“No matter whether failure came A thousand different times, For one brief moment of success, Life rang its golden chimes.”

Different Matter Moments Failure Thousand Golden Different Times Brief Moments Chimes

Author:George Eliot

“There is a chill air surrounding those who are down in the world, and people are glad to get away from them, as from a cold room.”

People World Rooms Air Failure Cold Glad Get Away Chill

Book:The Mill on the Floss

Source: The Mill on the Floss

“In all failures, the beginning is certainly the half of the whole.”

Whole Half Failure Losing

Book:Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Source: Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“It is a tragic hour, that hour when we are finally driven to reckon with ourselves, when every avenue of mental distraction has been cut off and our own life and all its ineffaceable failures closes about us like the walls of that old torture chamber of the Inquisition.”

Has Beens Hours Cutting Failure Wall Driven Torture Tragic Distraction Chamber Avenues Inquisition Every Avenue

Book:The First Willa Cather MEGAPACK®: 50 Classic Short Works

Source: The First Willa Cather MEGAPACK®: 50 Classic Short Works

“Defeats and failures are great developers of character. They have made the giants of our race by giving Titanic muscles, brawny sinews, and far-reaching intellects.”

Giving Made Character Race Failure Defeat Intellect Giants Muscles Reaching Developers

Book:Rising in the World, Or Architects of Fate

Source: Rising in the World, Or Architects of Fate

“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”

“The acceptance of ambiguity implies more than the commonplace understanding that some good things and some bad things happen to us. It means that we know that good and evil are inextricably intermixed in human affairs; that they contain, and sometimes embrace, their opposites; that success may involve failure of a different kind, and failure may be a kind of triumph.”

Source: Clearing the ground

“Take the happiest man, the one most envied by the world, and in nine cases out of ten his inmost consciousness is one of failure. Either his ideals in the line of his achievements are pitched far higher than the achievements themselves, or else he has secret ideals of which the world knows nothing, and in regard to which he inwardly knows himself to be found wanting.”

Knows Men World Found Lines Secret Consciousness Cases Failure Higher Ten Achievement Ideals Regard Nine Envied Happiest Man

Book:Writings, 1902-1910

Source: Writings, 1902-1910

“There's no disgrace in failing, lad, Though friends and foes deride; In fact, a failure's not so bad As never having tried.”

Facts Failing Failure Foe Disgrace Lad

Author:Ken Kesey

“One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.”

Source: The Counterfeiters: A Novel

“It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.”

People Life Next Work Failure Overcoming Difficulty Adversity Angle Taxi Plugging In

Author:Andre Gide

“THE ONLY REAL FAILURE IS TO FAIL OTHERS.”

Real Failing Failure

Book:A Scanner Darkly

Source: A Scanner Darkly

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