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“Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it is all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you are willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you are willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you have got the essential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.”

“If an American is motoring on his own, he (the paragon of morality and chastity) will slow down and stop beside every solitary pretty female pedestrian, bare his teeth in a big smile, and tempt her into his car with a wild roll of the eyes. A lady who fails to appreciate his passion will qualify as an idiot who doesn't realise how lucky she is to have the opportunity of getting to know the owner of this 100-horse-power motor car.”

Source: My Discovery of America

“My opportunities were still there, nay, they multiplied tenfold; but the strength and youth to cope with them began to fail, and to need eking out with the shifty cunning of experience.”

Needs Stills Opportunity Failing Strength Youth Cunning

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“Greater consumption due to increase in population and growth of income heightens scarcity and induces price run-ups. A higher price represents an opportunity that leads inventors and businesspeople to seek new ways to satisfy the shortages. Some fail, at cost to themselves. A few succeed, and the final result is that we end up better off than if the original shortage problems had never arisen. That is, we need our problems, though this does not imply that we should purposely create additional problems for ourselves.”

“The people who are good in the long run fail a lot, especially at the beginning. So, when you fail early, it might be worth realizing that this is part of the deal, the price you pay for being good in the long run. Every rejection is a gift. A chance to learn and to do it better next time. An opportunity to figure out how to bounce, not break. Don't waste them.”

People Long Might Motivational Running Next Opportunity Realizing Chance Deals Pay Break Failing Figures Waste Be Good Rejection Long Runs Next Time Bounce

Author:Seth Godin

“The Obama administration's agenda of maximizing dependency involves political favoritism cloaked in the raiment of "economic planning" and "social justice" that somehow produce results superior to what markets produce when freedom allows merit to manifest itself, and incompetence to fail. The administration's central activity - the political allocation of wealth and opportunity - is not merely susceptible to corruption, it is corruption.”

“The fact of being an underdog changes people in ways that we often fail to appreciate. It opens doors and creates opportunities and enlightens and permits things that might otherwise have seemed unthinkable.”

People Way Facts Might Opportunity Failing Doors Appreciate Permit Enlightening Unthinkable Underdog

Author:Malcolm Gladwell

“You can't fail. The further you fall, the greater the opportunity for growth and change.”

Fall Opportunity Growth Greater Failing Change And Growth

Author:Julie Newmar

“I gave someone a perverse argument not so long ago about why advertising is better than movies. You want to hear it? Movies operate from a really disingenuous premise, that people are heroes. I know a lot of people and have had an opportunity over the years to observe them. Are they heroes...? Let's put it this way. Advertising tries something simpler and more believable: Products as heroes. I guess the idea is: When all else fails, put your faith in conditioner.”

People Knows Way Want Trying Years Long Ideas Opportunity Failing Products Hero Argument Advertising Long Ago Premises Believable When All Else Fails Disingenuous

Author:Errol Morris

“Opportunity can't reward you with its many gifts if you fail to recognize it and act on it. What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made from the wreckage of a civilization as from the upbuilding of one. Let the good times roll!”

People Ifs Made Seems Opportunity Realizing Failing Civilization Rewards Good Times Wreckage Let The Good Times Roll

Author:Ernie J Zelinski

“Whether you fail or set the world on fire cannot make so very much difference if only you have the opportunity to try for it, to work for it, to think of nothing else!”

Ifs Thinking World Trying Opportunity Differences Fire Failing

Book:The Crystal Cup

Source: The Crystal Cup

“I was accorded the opportunity to learn by failing - albeit at the cost of a few honourable teachers' sanity - and now I realise what a rare and incredible luxury that is.”

Opportunity Teacher Failing Cost Incredibles Luxury Realising Sanity Opportunities To Learn

Author:Arabella Weir

“What I love to tell young kids is ultimately let your dreams evolve around your opportunities. You have to focus on always learning. It's cliche, but the reality of it is that if you take action and try and fail you're gonna learn a lot by the time you try it again, and you'll build a foundation of experience that's gonna be ultimately the rock that allows you to find success or follow your dreams.”

Ifs Trying Dream Reality Kids Action Young Opportunity Focus Failing Rocks Foundation Evolve Your Dreams Follow Your Dreams Cliche Always Learning

Author:Rob Dyrdek

“I'm a strong believer that you have to have an equal opportunity to fail and to try things that are hard. I always tell my students, "Don't just take things that are easy for you. If you're really good at math, don't take just math. Take classes that make you write. If you're a really great writer, but bad at math, take math and make yourself work your way through it."”

Ifs Way Writing Trying Hard Opportunity Strong Easy Class Failing Students Equal Math Believer Really Great Great Writers Equal Opportunity Things That Are Hard

Author:Condoleezza Rice

“I don't consider myself an expert in the why. I don't consider myself an expert in leadership. I consider myself a student of leadership and I consider myself a student of the why. I'm constantly learning and I'm constantly looking for opportunities where it it will fail.”

Opportunity Failing Students Experts Constantly Learning

Author:Simon Sinek

“If you FAIL, never give up because F.A.I.L. means "First Attempt in Learning". END is not the end; in fact E.N.D. means "Effort Never Dies". If you get NO as an answer, remember N.O. means "Next Opportunity".”

Ifs Inspirational Giving Firsts Mean Ends Facts Remember Dies Next Opportunity Answers Effort Failing Giving Up Never Giving Up

Author:Abdul Kalam