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Failure, Faith, Fear, Feeling, Flexibility, Focus, Footprints, Friendship

 

Subject

Quote

Author

Name

Failure

I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

Thomas

Edison

Failure

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

Robert F.

Kennedy

Failure

It's how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success.

David

Feherty

Failure

Failure is only an opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Henry

Ford

Failure

We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure - all your life.

John

Gardner

Failure

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

Michael

Jordan

Failure

Failure is an event--it is not a person.

Zig

Ziglar

Failure

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

Bill

Cosby

Failure

What we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down.

Mary

Pickford

Failure

Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and to move forward with your life.

Dr.David

Burns

Failure

It is the individual who is not interested in his fellow men who has the greatest difficulties in life and provides the greatest injury to others. It is from among such individuals that all human failures spring.

Alfred

Adler

Failure

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Malcolm

Forbes

Failure

If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

George

Bush

Failure

Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.

Pope

John XXIII

Failure

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Babe

Ruth

Failure

I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.

John

Keats

Failure

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

James

Joyce

Failure

One who fears failure, limits his activities..

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Henry

Ford

Faith

You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.

Samuel

Butler

Faith

Ask and it shall be given you - There is practically nothing that a man can't do for or with himself if he has faith.

Elsie

Robinson

Faith

For me the heights have bred vision and confidence. But it was in the valley that I learned true humility - found that when everything material failed, faith remained the only gilt-edged security.

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Conrad

Hilton

Fear

He who has conquered doubt and fear has conquered failure.

James

Allen

Fear

The key to success is for you to make a habit throughout your life of doing the things you fear.

Brian

Tracy

Fear

Fear less, hope more,
eat less, chew more,
whine less, breathe more,
talk less, say more,
love more,
and all good things will be yours.

Swedish

Proverb

Fear

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when adults are afraid of the light.


Plato

Fear

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the things you think you cannot do.

Eleanor

Roosevelt

Fear

We can’t fear the past. Fear is a future thing. And since the future is all in our heads, fear must be a head thing.

Tom

Payne

Feeling

You can feel any way you choose at any moment in time.

Anthony

Robbins

Flexibility

Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not be bent out of shape.

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Aikido

Proverb

Focus

If you would be rich… you will be rich. If you would be learned… you will be learned. If you would be good… you will be good. But wish, then, for one thing exclusively… and don't at the same time wish for a hundred other incompatible things just as strongly."

William

James

Focus

Only through focus can you do world-class things, no matter how capable you are.

Bill

Gates

Footprints

You can’t leave footprints in the sands of time if you’re sitting on your butt. And who wants to leave butt prints in the sands of time?

Bob

Moawad

Friendship

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.

Albert

Camus

Friendship

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Jerome

Cummings

Friendship

Nether a borrower nor a lender be;
For loan oft loses both itself and friend.

William

Shakespeare

Friendship

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

Dale

Carnegie

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