Failure Quotes
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Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result? Could the underlying cause be our failure to correctly understand the true nature of happiness?
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You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give.
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Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
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More and more, when faced with the world of men, the only reaction is one of individualism. Man alone is an end unto himself. Everything one tries to do for the common good ends in failure.
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The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
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Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life.
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I don't see divorce as a failure. I see it as the end to a story. In a story, everything has an end and a beginning.
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Kids have been let down by adults - we've tried to give them too much, we've tried not to impose discipline. We've tried to make their lives easier and, in doing so, we've taken something away from them. Kids like boundaries, they also like to be pushed, need to learn what failure is all about, need guidance.
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The fact is that the New Deal was, overall, a dismal failure.
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I get this thing where people are like, 'Man, you got to tell me what to do' - like I have a cheat code to being successful. It's hard work; it's trial and error. I failed, but I never let failure get to my head or to my heart.
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Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success.
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E! has just become a sad, sad place to live. They don't know what they're doing; they have no ideas... everything they do just is a failure.
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Although such research [into the paranormal] has yet to produce anything in the way of a repeatable controlled experiment, its practitioners argue that its revolutionary potentialities justify its continuation. My own feeling is that after a century of total failure it has become a bloody bore.
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If you're the type of person who has to fulfill your dreams, you've gotta be resourceful to make sure you can do it. I came out to California when I was 21, thinking my New York credentials would take me all the way. I came back home a year later all dejected and a failure.
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What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure.
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Ahimsa is a science. The word 'failure' has no place in the vocabulary of science.
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The worth of a life is not determined by a single failure or a solitary success.
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In my experience, each failure contains the seeds of your next success-if you are willing to learn from it.
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Failure is just part of life; it happens to everyone. Yet, it doesn't have to be crippling if you don't let it.
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This machine was a failure to the extent that it could not fly. In other respects it was a very important and necessary stepping stone.
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Failure usually works for me in the end.
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Overhead will eat you alive if not constantly viewed as a parasite to be exterminated. Never mind the bleating of those you employ. Hold out until mutiny is imminent before employing even a single additional member of staff. More startups are wrecked by overstaffing than by any other cause, bar failure to monitor cash flow.
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Brain surgeons are dealing with the very last thread of life, and they have to be very confident, but I think they tend to remember their failures rather than their successes, and that must be very hard. Who do you share that failure with? That's why their personal lives are often disastrous.
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Civilization is a failure. We need to think what we can do together in love and peace.
