Gautama Buddha on failure
Gautama Buddha100 quotes“Those who have failed to work toward the truth have missed the purpose of living.”
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Success isn’t the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.
Gautama BuddhaGautama Buddha If you find no one to support you on the spiritual path, walk alone.
Gautama BuddhaGautama Buddha Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.
Gautama BuddhaGautama Buddha From a withered tree, a flower blooms.
Gautama BuddhaGautama Buddha Awake. Be the witness of your thoughts. You are what observes, not what you observe.
Gautama BuddhaGautama Buddha The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
Gautama BuddhaGautama Buddha Rule your mind or it will rule you.
Gautama BuddhaGautama Buddha True love is born from understanding.
Gautama BuddhaGautama Buddha Words have the power to both destroy and heal. When words are both true and kind, they can change our world.
Gautama BuddhaGautama Buddha He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.
Gautama BuddhaGautama Buddha If a traveller does not meet with one who is his better, or his equal, let him firmly keep to his solitary journey; there is no companionship with a fool.
Gautama BuddhaGautama Buddha It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.
Gautama BuddhaGautama Buddha Silence the angry man with love. Silence the ill-natured man with kindness. Silence the miser with generosity. Silence the liar with truth.
Gautama BuddhaGautama Buddha Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again.
Gautama BuddhaGautama Buddha If you truly loved yourself, you could never hurt another.
Gautama BuddhaGautama Buddha The past is already gone, the future is not yet here. There’s only one moment for you to live, and that is the present moment
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If I fail, if I succeed, at least I live as I believe.
Whitney HoustonWhitney Houston Maybe we don’t put our young people in situations often enough where they’re allowed to fail. When you fail you gain experience, and with enough experience, you don’t fail as often.
Colin PowellColin Powell I decided long ago never to walk in anyone’s shadow; if I fail, or if I succeed at least I did as I believe.
Whitney HoustonWhitney Houston If you try to follow everyone else’s mold, you’ll probably fail at some point because God created us uniquely for a reason.
Queen LatifahQueen Latifah Failure isn’t an option. I’ve erased the word fear from my vocabulary and I think when you erase fear you can’t fail.
Alicia KeysAlicia Keys Failure is a part of life and you have to learn to deal with it. Failure is something that is part of life’s cycle and it’s from failure that you gain life experience.
Colin PowellColin Powell I’m either about to fail miserably or I’m about to have a huge break through and to be honest that’s my sweet spot or something.
Carisa DownsCarisa Downs My life has been nothing but a failure.
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