Failure Quotes
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Over the years, I learned that in my career, unlike in life, sometimes my wheelchair is its own automatic door opener. I was able to win the OWN competition by applying one simple principle: be funny, and admit you suck before anyone else can call you out on it. In other words, make the narrative of your failure a comedy.
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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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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.
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Failure is what we're all running from, we're always running toward success with failure at our back.
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If we learn from the experience, there is no failure, only delayed victory.
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I was interested in political failure here in the U.S. The way we're failing to work together to solve even our smallest problems, let alone the complex ones.
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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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The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan.
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It is after creation, in the elation of success, or the gloom of failure, that love becomes essential.
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Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.
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People think it’s a failure to live alone. But it isn’t. The failure is to live with someone because you can’t face anything else.
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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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Each play was, for me, 'a different kind of failure.' And that fact, I suppose, sent me on to write the next one. (15)
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You're saying she doesn't do her work? So take care of your business! Fail her like a normal kid. The failure will be between me and my daughter, then. You won't like it if her failure is between me and you.
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The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure.
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Self-belief does not necessarily ensure success, but self-disbelief assuredly spawns failure.
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Failure is delay, but not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead-end street.
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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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I'm a big believer that success is never final and failure is never fatal.
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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 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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Every entrepreneur knows how agonizingly difficult it is to make the decision to give it your all, knowing that failure is inevitable; the successful ones know that the only way to get back up is through learning from that failure.
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We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.
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It's about not having doubt in your mind and staying focused and not having any preconceived notion about failure. It's just looking forward and staying positive.
