Failure Quotes
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A Failure in this Duty did once involve our Nation in all the Horrors of Rebellion and Civil War.
Charles Inglis -
Demarcation disputes between supervisor and student are always difficult, probably impossible to resolve... it is the supervisor who has the final responsibility for the success or failure of the project.
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
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With the American failure came world failure.
John Kenneth Galbraith -
The more important argument against grade curves is that they create an atmosphere that's toxic by pitting students against one another. At best, it creates a hypercompetitive culture, and at worst, it sends students the message that the world is a zero-sum game: Your success means my failure.
Adam Grant -
A proper autobiography is a death-bed confession. A true man finds so much work to do that he has no time to contemplate his yesterdays; for to-day and to-morrow are here, with their impatient tasks. The world is so busy, too, that it cannot afford to study any man's unfinished work; for the end may prove it a failure, and the world needs masterpieces.
Mary Antin -
Develop inspirational dissatisfaction. Rearrange your attitudes and convert a failure of one day into success on another.
W. Clement Stone -
Start-ups make so many mistakes that the challenge to identify the root cause of a failure is tough. But believing in your own plan is probably the worst.
Eric Ries -
The critical image... must not only fail to capture its referent, but show its failure.
Judith Butler
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The moral turpitude of the boys of today appears to center in their failure to concentrate on any particular objective long enough to obtain their maximum results.
Major Taylor -
Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.
Gary Ryan Blair -
But I look at failure as education. In that respect, I am so well-educated.
Kathy Ireland -
It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.
Joanne Rowling -
In Iraq we must succeed. Failure is not an option.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
I already had high blood pressure. I have hypertension. And I think the chemo was just too much for my kidneys. And they went into failure. And that was September 12th of 2008. And the doctor rushed me right to the hospital.
Natalie Cole
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The professed war-weariness among populations who have sent only a small percentage of their sons and daughters to fight in recent wars may derive from a failure to communicate effectively what is at stake in those wars and explain why the efforts are worthy of the risks, resources, and sacrifices necessary to sustain the strategy.
H. R. McMaster -
Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
Abraham Joshua Heschel -
Don't be frightened of failure. It makes you stronger if you learn from your mistakes.
Mark Lawrenson -
You have to risk failure to succeed. The important thing is not to make one single mistake that will jeopardize the future.
An Wang -
I have tried every diet to lose weight. When you restrict yourself, you're setting yourself up for failure.
Octavia Spencer -
The exposed nature of life in the public square affects leaders' attitudes toward risk - and failure.
Dee Dee Myers
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Every failure is a blessing in disguise, providing it teaches some needed lesson one could not have learned without it. Most so-called Failures are only temporary defeats.
Napoleon Hill -
I feel bad that I'm the one always blamed for the failure of the space business - even though there are problems with government policy toward the space business.
Yi So-Yeon -
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
Paul Tillich -
My film directorial career has been nothing but repetition of one failure after another!
Takeshi Kitano