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  • I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.

    "I Can't Accept Not Trying : Michael Jordan on the Pursuit of Excellence". Book by Michael Jordan (p. 129), 1994.
  • If you ever want to get a sense of your own personal failure, look at yourself trying to get across a point that nobody is listening to and the situation gets worse and worse.

    "Why Robert Reich cares so passionately about economic inequality". "PBS NewsHour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. October 15, 2013.
  • Pessimism is an excuse for not trying and a guarantee to a personal failure.

  • Action learning particularly obliges subjects to become aware of their own value systems, by demanding that the real problems tackled carry some risk of personal failure.

    Real   Risk   Action  
  • The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

    Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.91, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA
  • There is no failure except in no longer trying.

    Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.
  • the knowledge of personal failure ... is the invaluable predicate of all honest compassion.

  • In baseball, even the best hitters fail seven of ten times, and of those seven failures there are different reasons why. Some are personal failures, others are losses to the pitcher. You just get beat. In those personal failures, I felt I could have done better.

  • A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

  • When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

    Mary Kay Ash (1986). “Mary Kay”, Harper Perennial
  • Our society teaches a woman at a certain age who is unmarried to see it as a deep personal failure. While a man at a certain age who is unmarried has not quite come around to making his pick.

    Men   Age   Our Society  
    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2014). “We Should All Be Feminists”, p.16, Vintage
  • Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

    Robert F. Kennedy (1967). “To seek a newer world”, Doubleday Books
  • Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

    FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Nov 29, 2014
  • It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

    Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses”, p.2, Courier Corporation
  • It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.

  • By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

    Benjamin Franklin, The Secret Libraries (2016). “Benjamin Franklin Quotes... Vol. 23: Motivational and Inspirational Life Quotes by Benjamin Franklin”
  • Surprisingly, it's forgiveness, not guilt, that increases accountability. Researchers have found that taking a self-compassionate point of view on a personal failure makes people more likely to take personal responsibility for the failure than when they take a self-critical point of view. They also are more willing to receive feedback and advice from others, and more likely to learn from the experience.

    Source: time.com
  • Control in modern times requires more than force, more than law. It requires that a population dangerously concentrated in cities and factorites, whose lives are filled qith cause for rebellion, be taught that all is right as it is. And so, the schools, the churches, the popular literature taught that to be rich was a sign of superiority, to be poor a sign of personal failure, and that the only way upward for a poor person was to climb into the ranks of the rich by extraordinary effort and extraordinary luck.

    School   Cities   Law  
  • Stringent standards of self-evaluation [can] make otherwise objective successes seem to be personal failures

  • Meditation has made me happy, loving, and peaceful-but not every single moment of the day. I still have good times and bad, joy and sorrow. Now I can accept setbacks more easily, with less sense of disappointment and personal failure, because meditation has taught me how to cope with the profound truth that everything changes all the time.

    Sharon Salzberg (2010). “Real Happiness - Enhanced Ebook Edition: The Power of Meditation: A 28-Day Program”, p.6, Workman Publishing
  • Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

  • constituted a critical lapse in judgement and a personal failure on my part for which I am solely responsable

  • At the end of the day I have always seen the end of my relationships as a personal failure. There is nothing ever pretty in saying goodbye.

  • Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

    Truman Capote, M. Thomas Inge (1987). “Truman Capote: Conversations”, p.189, Univ. Press of Mississippi
  • Failure is a big part of a free market's success. People fail to live up to their potential, or to carry out all their good intentions, in all kinds of economic and political systems. Capitalism makes them pay a price for their failures, while socialism, feudalism, fascism and other systems enable personal failures, especially by those at the top, to be ignored.

    People   Political   Pay  
  • Women tend to vote the economic interests of their families and to speak out on family economic issues. For men, there's often much more focus on the idea of personal failure: "If I'm not winning this great economic game, it must be my fault."

    Interview with Ruth Conniff, progressive.org. December 27, 2009.
  • I did have a relationship with Miss Lewinsky that was not appropriate. In fact, it was wrong. It constituted a critical lapse in judgment and a personal failure on my part for which I am solely and completely responsible.

    Lapses   Facts   Judgment  
    President William J. "Bill" Clinton's televised address on CNN, edition.cnn.com. August 17, 1998.
  • Everything you’ve told yourself you ought to do, your mind thinks you should do right now. Frankly, as soon add you have two things to do stored in your RAM, you’ve generated personal failure, because you can’t do two things at the same time. This produces an all-pervasive stress factor whose source can’t be pin-pointed.

    Stress   Thinking   Two  
  • Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

  • The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.

    As quoted in"Be Free!: Keys to Success and Happiness in Every Aspect of Your Life" by Slavica Bogdanov, (p. 45), October 12, 2012.
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