11 Quotes Tagged: failures

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"The ancient commission of the writer has not changed. He is charged with exposing our many grievous faults and failures, with dredging up to the light our dark and dangerous dreams for the purpose of improvement."

[Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech]
John Steinbeck, American writer (1902–1968)
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Sometimes God will place a wall on your path to force you to go in another direction.
Suzy Kassem
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We look back on our life as a thing of broken pieces, because our mistakes and failures are always the first to strike us, and outweigh in our imagination what we have accomplished and attained.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749–1832)
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If you make a mistake, don’t spend precious time and energy trying to deny it or point the finger at someone else. Be a leader and own it, then spend your time and energy fixing the problem. As I’ve already noted, start-ups often fail because founders want to be seen as the smartest person in the room, which means not being wrong. Making a mistake is going to happen. None of us is perfect. But the difference between success and failure is how you handle that mistake
Ziad K. Abdelnour, Lebanese-born American investment banker, financier, activist and author
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If we experience any failures or setbacks, we do not forget them because they offend our self-esteem. Instead we reflect on them deeply, trying to figure out what went wrong and discern whether there are any patterns to our mistakes.
Robert Greene, American author
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The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.
Randy Pausch, American professor of computer science, human-computer interaction and design
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Take Action: Success is not guaranteed but inaction will guaranty failure.
Ken Poirot
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Failure is a bend in the road, not the end of the road. Learn from failure and keep moving forward.
Roy T. Bennett
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