Failure Quotes
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There is some risk involved in action, there always is. But there is far more risk in failure to act.
Harry S Truman -
If you make a mistake, don’t spend precious time and energy trying to deny it or point the finger at someone else. Be a leader and own it, then spend your time and energy fixing the problem. As I’ve already noted, start-ups often fail because founders want to be seen as the smartest person in the room, which means not being wrong. Making a mistake is going to happen. None of us is perfect. But the difference between success and failure is how you handle that mistake.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
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The only real failure is trying to second-guess the taste of an audience. Nothing comes out of that except a kind of inward humiliation.
David Bowie -
Failure makes the success worth it.
Beth Revis -
Without exposure to potential failure, there is no risk.
Brennan Manning -
If you have the will to win, you have achieved half your success; if you don't, you have achieved half your failure.
David Ambrose -
Trade and wealth creation is not all upside. It is failure, too. Failure is a necessary component to growth and success. Babe Ruth struck out 1,330 times but also hit 714 home runs. We need to let failing entities fail. Only then will successful people turn these enterprises back into wealth-creating vehicles again. “Too big to fail” is a concept that perpetuates failure and saps vitality from the rest of the wealth creators to do so.
Ziad K. Abdelnour -
In the long run, failure was the only thing that worked predictably. All else was accidental.
Joseph Heller
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FINAO. My word for my companies. Failure Is Not An Option.
Ziad K. Abdelnour -
If Steinitz continually took pains to discover combinations, the success or failure of his diligent search could not be explained by him as due to chance. Hence, he concluded that some characteristic, a quality of the given position, must exist that would indicate the success or the failure of the search before it was actually undertaken.
Emanuel Lasker -
Faithfulness requires the courage to risk everything on Jesus, the willingness to keep growing, and the readiness to risk failure throughout our lives.
Brennan Manning -
Failure is a resource that can be managed.
Scott Adams -
A "poem" is understood as something referring to a failure of language to be equal to the possibilities it figures.
Ben Lerner -
Milton says, “The mind can make a heaven of hell, or a hell of heaven.” I try remind myself daily that success and failure have less to do with actual results but rather how we choose to respond to the results. You can squander success and you can overcome failure. You can flourish or you can flounder. Sometimes it’s about choosing which feelings to fight and which feelings to follow.
Hannah Hart
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It would be a real failure if agreeing that it [abortion] was not an electoral issue provided an alibi for taking it seriously as a public issue.
Rowan Williams -
Failure means nothing now, only that it taught me life.
Elisabeth Elliot -
Humility, and the most patient perseverance, seem almost as necessary in gardening as rain and sunshine, and every failure must be used as a stepping-stone to something better.
Elizabeth von Arnim -
I tell myself it's a virtue, my failure to sleep in my own house, or at all. I tell myself that I spend more hours than most people aware that I am alive, and that over a lifetime this adds up to more living, more aliveness. I am more alive than the rest of my family. Which is my greatest night fear. Which is why I hunt. I don't ever want to be more alive than they are.
Heidi Julavits