“Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result? Could the underlying cause be our failure to correctly understand the true nature of happiness?”
— Daisaku Ikeda
Author: Daisaku Ikeda
Category: failure
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“In high school, in sport, I had a coach who told me I was much better than I thought I was, and would make me do more in a positive sense. He was the first person who taught me not to be afraid of failure.”
— Mike Krzyzewski
Author: Mike Krzyzewski
Category: failure
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“Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.”
— Amelia Earhart
Author: Amelia Earhart
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“Please know that I am aware of the hazards. I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be a challenge to others.”
— Amelia Earhart
Author: Amelia Earhart
Category: failure
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“There are only really a few stories to tell in the end, and betrayal and the failure of love is one of those good stories to tell.”
— Sean Lennon
Author: Sean Lennon
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“Testing leads to failure, and failure leads to understanding.”
— Burt Rutan
Author: Burt Rutan
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“Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.”
— Norman Vincent Peale
Author: Norman Vincent Peale
Category: failure
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“I think the greatest taboos in America are faith and failure.”
— Michael Malone
Author: Michael Malone
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“In Torch Song, I did that character almost non-stop from 1978 until I made the movie in 1987. Then I had some failure, which also colors how you react to doing other things.”
— Harvey Fierstein
Author: Harvey Fierstein
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“I think that failure by your own standards is certainly a form of success.”
— Bonnie Hunt
Author: Bonnie Hunt
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“The reason was the failure of both Japan and China to understand each other and the inability of America and the European powers to sympathize, without prejudice, with the peoples of East Asia.”
— Hideki Tojo
Author: Hideki Tojo
Category: failure
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