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Success is 99 percent failure.
Soichiro Honda
Success
Failure
Percent
Success Is
Never be afraid of failure. And don't stop yourself from doing something you want to do because of what others might think. Only you know yourself best.
Suki Waterhouse
Best
Failure
You
Yourself
Think
Others
Something
Only
Never
Know
Know Yourself
Because
Doing
Stop
Afraid
Want
Might
I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.
Tennessee Williams
Success
Work
Me
Failure
Negative
Before
Back
Typewriter
Out
More
Pushed
Had
Always
Am
Been
Reviews
Very
Than
Get
Sends
Apparent
Play
Compelled
Night
'Pressure' is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure.
Tommy Lasorda
Failure
You
Word
Pressure
Think
Thinking
Our
Vocabulary
Because
Misused
Start
Started
Your ability to adapt to failure, and navigate your way out of it, absolutely 100 percent makes you who you are.
Viola Davis
Failure
You
Way
Out
Ability
Percent
Absolutely
Makes
Your
Who
Navigate
Adapt
Catastrophes are often stimulated by the failure to feel the emergence of a domain, and so what cannot be felt in the imagination is experienced as embodied sensation in the catastrophe.
William Irwin Thompson
Failure
Imagination
Embodied
Emergence
Catastrophe
Feel
Felt
Stimulated
Domain
Often
Sensation
Experienced
Cannot
When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
George Bernard Shaw
Work
Failure
Young
Nine
Out
Ten
More
Ten Times
Observed
Failures
Were
Times
Did
Things
It would be great to be able to pass on to someone all of the successes, the failures, and the knowledge that one has had. To help someone, avoid all the fire, pain and anxiety would be wonderful.
Sylvester Stallone
Great
Failure
Knowledge
Wonderful
Anxiety
Fire
Pain
Would
Would-Be
Able
Someone
Had
Failures
Pass
Successes
Avoid
Help
War is the greatest failure of mankind.
Aaron Huey
War
Failure
Greatest
Mankind
The very nature of finance is that it cannot be profitable unless it is significantly leveraged... and as long as there is debt, there can be failure and contagion.
Alan Greenspan
Finance
Nature
Failure
Long
Unless
Contagion
Debt
Very
Cannot
Profitable
The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan.
Alan Price
Success
Failure
You
Fathers
Thousand
Phrase
Use
Orphan
A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
Ambrose Bierce
Failure
Man
Enemies
First
Ranks
Would
Bear
He
Like
Arms
Himself
Makes
First-Person
His
Person
Being
Against
Certain
Convinced
Doubts
Who
Tenacity is not about avoiding being overwhelmed but being indomitable in the face of the overwhelming odds of your venture's failure.
Andy Dunn
Failure
Face
Odds
Overwhelming
About
Tenacity
Indomitable
Venture
Overwhelmed
Being
Your
Avoiding
With everything that is complex, we learn. If you don't learn, then it's an utter and abject failure. If you do learn, and you're able to apply that to the next situation, then you take away a measure of success.
Ben Carson
Success
Failure
You
Situation
Everything
Complex
Abject
Able
Take
Learn
Then
Next
Measure
Away
Utter
Apply
Failure's not a bad thing. It builds character. It makes you stronger.
Billy Dee Williams
Character
Failure
You
Stronger
Bad
Bad Thing
Makes
Builds
Thing
Without exposure to potential failure, there is no risk.
Brennan Manning
Failure
Risk
Potential
Without
Exposure
Even when you have doubts, take that step. Take chances. Mistakes are never a failure - they can be turned into wisdom.
Cat Cora
Wisdom
Failure
You
Mistakes
Take
Never
Step
Turned
Doubts
Even
Chance
Chances
'You, too, can be the President,' every American kid is told. But one unintended consequence of this belief, it is that, as a result of our being a meritocracy, if you have not succeeded, you are of lesser merit. It is shameful to be a failure in this country.
Caterina Fake
Failure
You
Result
Country
Every
Too
President
Our
Kid
Shameful
Merit
American
Being
Succeeded
Unintended
Lesser
Belief
Every American
Consequence
It's how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success.
Charlotte Whitton
Success
Failure
You
Achieve
Determines
Deal
How
Is the proposed operation likely to succeed? What might the consequences of failure? Is it in the realm of practicability in terms of material and supplies?
Chester W. Nimitz
Failure
Consequences
Proposed
Supplies
Likely
Terms
Operation
Material
Succeed
Might
Realm
I think you can learn as much from success as you can from failure.
Corey Hart
Success
Failure
You
Think
Learn
Much
Failure holds the seeds for greatness - so long as you water those seeds with introspection, they can be the root of your success.
Daniel Lubetzky
Success
Failure
You
Water
Long
Those
Introspection
Seeds
Greatness
Holds
Root
Your
All political careers end in failure, but few did it so quickly as David Cameron's. He came to power promising not to 'bang on about Europe' and ended up having the continent's name chiselled into the lid of his political coffin.
David Hepworth
Failure
Political
Power
Few
Promising
Lid
About
Having
David
He
Name
Continent
Came
His
Cameron
End
Up
Quickly
Did
Bang
Ended
Europe
Coffin
Careers
Pride is ugly. It says, 'If you succeed, I am a failure.'
Ezra Taft Benson
Failure
You
Pride
Ugly
Says
Am
Succeed
There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
George Eliot
Life
Best
Failure
Be True
Possible
Only
True
Knows
At first I wasn't sure that I had the talent, but I did know I had a fear of failure, and that fear compelled me to fight off anything that might abet it.
Gordon Parks
Me
Failure
Fight
Fear
First
Had
Talent
Know
Sure
Off
Did
Anything
Might
Compelled
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