Failure Quotes
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Comedy was my sport. It taught me how to roll with the punches. Failure is the exact same as success when it comes to comedy because it just keeps coming. It never stops.
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The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan.
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Develop inspirational dissatisfaction. Rearrange your attitudes and convert a failure of one day into success on another.
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Intemperance and intolerance serve no one, and hatred guarantees failure.
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If you look at great human civilizations, from the Roman Empire to the Soviet Union, you will see that most do not fail simply due to external threats but because of internal weakness, corruption, or a failure to manifest the values and ideals they espouse.
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We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.
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America's most dangerous diseases have developed an immunity to politics. We suffer not from a failure of political organization or power, but a failure of love.
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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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And I went to New York and died; for 10 years I walked those pavements. I can't think of New York without feeling uncomfortable and feeling like a failure.
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Elektra isn't a villain and isn't a good girl, but as Frank Miller said, she is one of the villains with a weak streak in them, and that's a failure that I tried to explore.
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You cannot sleep with the enemy and be successful...Every cord that binds you to failure, every cord that binds you to fear, you gotta cut it!
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If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success.
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When we talk about 9/11 and 26/11 - which is the shorthand for the Mumbai attacks in 2008 - we're talking about the most successful terrorist attacks in history. When you start trying to study the most successful event of its kind, it actually doesn't make for great fiction because there isn't the kind of failure in it that fiction thrives on.
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As an entrepreneur, the latitude of failure and of success is directly correlated to people. I am growing more and more attentive to my first instincts, even if I can't justify them, as they apply to people.
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We will fiercely challenge those forces within the education establishment who impede innovation in our schools and who protect and defend inequality and institutional failure.
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Being human means you will make mistakes. And you will make mistakes, because failure is God's way of moving you in another direction.
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With the American failure came world failure.
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I had a one-year-old son. How will my failure or success limit what he becomes? I was trying to write screenplays. It doesn't pay very well until you sell one. I was poor.
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Failure is delay, but not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead-end street.
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The critical image... must not only fail to capture its referent, but show its failure.
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If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent.
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I've always embraced failure as a noble pursuit. It allows you to be anti whatever anyone wants you to be, and to break all the rules.
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I think it’s important to have a good hard failure when you're young. I learned a lot out of that. Because it makes you kind of aware of what can happen to you. Because of it I’ve never had any fear in my whole life when we’ve been near collapse and all of that. I’ve never been afraid. I’ve never had the feeling I couldn’t walk out and get a job doing something.
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The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.
