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  • Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.

  • Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.

  • A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

    Elbert Hubbard (1916). “The Philosophy of Elbert Hubbard”
  • It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might has well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.

  • We can develop a social vaccine (Self-esteem). We can outgrow our past failures - our lives of crime and violence, alcohol and drug abuse, premature pregnancy, child abuse, chronic dependency on welfare, and education failure.

  • It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

    Address at Oglethorpe University, 22 May (1932)
  • My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

  • Live in the present. The past is gone; the future is unknown -- but the present is real, and your opportunities are now. You must see these opportunities; they must be real for you. The catch is that they can't seem real if your mind is buried in past failures, if you keep reliving old mistakes, old guilts, old tragedies. Fight your way above the many inevitable Traumatizations of your ego, escape damnation by the past, and look to the opportunities of the present. I don't mean some vague moment in the present -- next week or next month, perhaps. I mean today, this minute.

    Real   Mistake   Mean  
  • Every person, if he is to have mental health and live successfully, must move away from past failures and mistakes and go forward without letting them be a weight upon him. The art of forgetting is absolutely necessary.

    Art   Mistake   Moving  
  • If at first you don't succeed, you're obviously not me.

  • Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

  • We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

    1859 Self-Help, ch.11.
  • To be haunted by past failures or satisfied with past successes is to arrest forward motion.

  • By keeping the mind in the present, unless you deliberately want to contemplate the past or future, it's possible to firmly face life without fear. Then, no thoughts of past failures or future problems will exist in the mind, and a truly positive mental state will result-fudoshin, the "immovable mind".

    Yoga   Past   Meditation  
  • Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.

  • You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.

    Life   Bullying   Mistake  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Some of the same self-certified smart people, who preached about mushroom clouds and weapons of mass destruction, are once again trying to stampede us into war. They seem to think only with their guns. To those who want to shoot first and ask questions later in Iraq, I join in a firm 'No!' We've been there and done that, and America is still paying for their past failure.

    Military   War   Smart  
  • Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.

    S. I. HAYAKAWA (1941). “LANGUAGE IN ACTION”
  • Successful people maintain a positive focus in life no matter what is going on around them.

  • People who achieve great things are people who make choices. Far too many people today let life dictate their future instead of the other way around. Choices are hard - that's why so few actually make them. But as the saying goes - not to make a choice is to make a choice. When it comes to choices, The question is - what choices will you make today? The world doesn't care about your problems, or what's holding you back. They don't care about your past failures, or any other obstacles you face. Stop making excuses and start making choices.

    Past   People   Choices  
  • You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone.

    Mistake   Failure   Use  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • I try to incorporate faith every day, to not remind myself of past failures, to learn how to forgive and to trust the future.

    Past   Forgiving   Trying  
  • When one door closes another door opens. Usually a refrigerator.

  • When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.

    Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.92, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA
  • Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

    Robert F. Kennedy (1967). “To seek a newer world”, Doubleday Books
  • If at first you don't succeed, you can always become an ultramarathoner.

  • Past failures unlock future successes

    FaceBook post by Richard Branson from Feb 18, 2015
  • Why cry about missed opportunities when you have the ability to smile at opportunities lived? The past has created who you are NOW, where we learn and grow from the past, never resting upon previous achievements or allowing past failure to paralyze us in our current endeavor. All that was has created us to be the best we currently are for our greatest hour is about to arise!

    FaceBook post by Greg Plitt from May 10, 2012
  • Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.

    1983 Worst ward Ho.
  • If at first you don't succeed, You're not an Alpha

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