Failure Quotes
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Nixon's grand mistake was his failure to understand that Americans are forgiving, and if he had admitted error early and apologized to the country, he would have escaped.
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Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.
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With the American failure came world failure.
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All too many churchmen view the undisciplined & amoral products of statist education as evidences of the failure of these schools. On the contrary, they are evidences of their success.
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The essential purpose of Christianity was to transform human society into the kingdom of God by regenerating all human relations and reconstituting them in accordance with the will of God. ...I have never met with any previous attempt to give a satisfactory historical explanation of this failure.
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What is more comforting to the terrorists around the world: the failure to pass the 9/11 legislation because we lacked a majority of the majority,' or putting aside partisan politics to enact tough new legislation with America's security foremost in mind?
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The greatest waste … is failure to use the abilities of people…to learn about their frustrations and about the contributions that they are eager to make.
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I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.
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Success comes when people act together; failure tends to happen alone.
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The exposed nature of life in the public square affects leaders' attitudes toward risk - and failure.
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This is why we shouldn't be afraid. There are two possibilities: One is that there's more to life than the physical life, that our souls "will find an even higher place to dwell" when this life is over. If that's true, there's no reason to fear failure or death. The other possibility is that this life is all there is. And if that's true, then we have to really live it - we have to take it for everything it has and "die enormous" instead of "living dormant," as I said way back on "Can I Live." Either way, fear is a waste of time.
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In politics, as in womanizing, failure is decisive. It sheds its retrospective gloom on earlier endeavor which at the time seemed full of promise.
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White America is tortured by black America's failure to thrive, and all that guilt and anxiety has only gotten worse as a substantial quota of white America loses its own footing in the middle class and plunges into the rough country of joblessness, hopelessness, and government dependency.
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It breaks my heart to see these young, really talented bands getting chewed up into the system. I remember a time if you'd signed to a major label it was such a sell out! But now... unless you've signed to a big label, you're a failure now.
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I have tried every diet to lose weight. When you restrict yourself, you're setting yourself up for failure.
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The failure of Lehman may have allowed the government to do more to prop up the economy than it otherwise could.
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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.
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But I look at failure as education. In that respect, I am so well-educated.
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I don't think something is a failure if you put your all into it. I'm a big fan of the saying, "Nothing beats a failure but a try."
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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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Don't be frightened of failure. It makes you stronger if you learn from your mistakes.
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Failure to properly control our borders costs citizens in many ways: schools become overcrowded, medical resources are stretched too thin, other government services are overtaxed, and taxes increase further.
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It's how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success.
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If you were to plot my success or failure, it goes, it very seldom stays on a high plateau.
