Failure Quotes

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The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn't like to do. — Thomas A. Edison
The single biggest difference between financial success and financial failure is how well you manage your money. It's simple: to master money, you must manage… — T. Harv Eker
Success requires persistence, the ability to not give up in the face of failure. I believe that optimistic explanatory style is the key to persistence. — Martin Seligman
Show me a completely contented person and I'll show you a failure. — Thomas A. Edison
Wishing will not bring riches. But desiring riches with a state of mind that becomes an obsession, then planning definite ways and means to acquire… — Napoleon Hill
Failure is not an option on this one. — Donny Deutsch
The failure-dichotomy principle: failure is good. Failure is not an option. Balance those in your brain. — Donny Deutsch
There are agencies who are good losers, places where losing is not only accepted, it becomes part of the culture, it is expected. That is… — Donny Deutsch
The third level of wanting is "I commit to being rich." The definition of the word commit is to "devote oneself unreservedly." This means holding… — T. Harv Eker
Capitalism without failure is like religion without sin. Bankruptcies and losses concentrate the mind on prudent behavior. — Allan H. Meltzer
Failure leaves open a door for us to try, and try again. — Robert M. Hensel
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. Genuine ignorance is profitable because it… — John Dewey
You will be wounded many times in your life. You'll make mistakes. Some people will call them failures but I have learned that failure is… — Oprah Winfrey
Success depends upon staying power. The reason for failure in most cases is lack of perseverance. — J.R. Miller
Our repeated failure to fully act as we would wish must not discourage us. It is the sincere intention that is the essential thing, and… — Thomas Troward
We, the people, still believe that our obligations as Americans are not just to ourselves, but to all posterity. We will respond to the threat… — Barack Obama
The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure. — B. C. Forbes
I think if a physician wrote on a death certificate that old age was the cause of death, he'd be thrown out of the union.… — George Wald
Our novice runs the risk of failure without additional traits: a strong inclination toward originality, a taste for research, and a desire to experience the… — Santiago Ramon y Cajal
Meditation has made me happy, loving, and peaceful-but not every single moment of the day. I still have good times and bad, joy and sorrow.… — Sharon Salzberg

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