15.07.2016

8 Quotes On Failure That Will Inspire You To Succeed


No great success was ever achieved without failure. It may be one epic failure. Or a series of failures – such as Edison’s10,000 attempts to create a light bulb. But, whether we like it or not, failure is a necessary stepping stone to achieving our dreams.

Here we gave a TED-talk on the topic. And now — this collection of 8 quotes that will hopefully inspire you to look at failure differently.
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1. «Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time». George Bernard Shaw

quotes28_22. «You don’t learn from successes; you don’t learn from awards; you don’t learn from celebrity; you only learn from wounds and scars and mistakes and failures. And that’s the truth». Jane Fonda

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3. «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

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4. «Failures are infinitely more instructive than successes». George Clooney

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5. «Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure». Paulo Coelho

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6. «I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed». Michael Jordan

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7. «There are some people who live 70 years and there some people who live one year 70 times, repeating what they’re doing over and over». Wayne Dyer

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8. «Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure — these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important». Steve Jobs

Glossary

Awards Награды Pride Гордость
Wounds and scars Раны и шрамы Fear of embarrassment Страх позора
Nine out of ten Девять из десяти In the face of death Перед лицом смерти
External expectations Ожидания от других Succeed Быть успешным