Don't Set Yourself Up For Failure Quotes

#1. People who to back and chastise themselves, or second guess themselves, for making a wrong decision or a weak decision continues to set themselves up for failure in future decisions simply because they don't trust themselves.

Jeffrey Gitomer

#2. When a man has just been greatly honored and has eaten a little he is the most generous.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#3. You don't have to be one of those people that accepts things as they are. Every day, take responsibility for changing them right where you are.

Cory Booker

#4. You might say the first American Revolution was against the tyranny of King George. The second American Revolution must be against the tyranny of selfishness." This

Rita Mae Brown

#5. I would definitely describe myself as a workaholic.

Sharlto Copley

#6. I was nothing but a failure. A fucked-up, broken shame.
I was nothing but this emptiness. A shell ruined by fame.
Don't be afraid to shatter, baby, if that will set you free.
I'll find you in the pieces and that will unbreak me.

Lexi Ryan

#7. Your ego can become an obstacle to your work. If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity.

Marina Abramovic

#8. Please don't nag yourself with thoughts of failure. Do not set goals far beyond your capacity to achieve. Simply do what you can do, in the best way you know, and the Lord will accept of your effort

Gordon B. Hinckley

#9. Be the winner in your life!

Tae Yun Kim

#10. Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times, you don't want to set him down as a failure till he's dead or loses his courage.

George Horace Lorimer

#11. I am sure everyone has had the experience of reading a book and finding it vibrating with aliveness, with colour and immediacy. And then, perhaps some weeks later, reading it again and finding it flat and empty. Well, the book hasn't changed: you have.

Doris Lessing

#12. Now we have to contend with overstimulation and too many opportunities all the time, and too many decisions all the time.

Elizabeth McGovern

#13. This splendid vision dwelt in her memory as the most beautiful thing that it was possible to dream, so that now she strove to recall her sensation. That still lasted, however, but in a less exclusive fashion and with a deeper sweetness. Her soul, tortured by

Gustave Flaubert

#14. If we don't find what we seek what happen then? Nothing? Everything? Are we set free by our failure, or are we doomed because we failed to find the answer that would have saved us? And how are we supposed to know the difference?

Anne Bishop

#15. You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you can be satisfied that you've tried. If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk.

Rosalynn Carter