Failure Quotes
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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
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The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan.
Alan Price
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It is after creation, in the elation of success, or the gloom of failure, that love becomes essential.
Cyril Connolly
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That sense of failure, I don't know where people put it who don't write songs and aren't able to emote physically. It must go somewhere.
Sting The Police
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The first reason for psychology's failure to understand what people are and how they act, is that clinicians and psychiatrists, who are generally the theoreticians on these matters, have essentially made up myths without any evidence to support them; the second reason for psychology's failure is that personality theory has looked for inner traits when it should have been looking for social context.
Naomi Weisstein
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The time I had waited probably made the difference between success and failure.
Anna Neagle
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Enjoy failure and learn from it. You can never learn from success.
James Dyson
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Failure is a part of success.
Hank Aaron
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Perfection is the natural consequence of eternity: wait long enough, and anything will realize its potential. Coal becomes diamonds, sand becomes pearls, apes become men. It's simply not given to us, in one lifetime, to see those consummations, and so every failure becomes a reminder of death.
Ian Caldwell
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The critical image... must not only fail to capture its referent, but show its failure.
Judith Butler
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My personality is based on an anonymity and failure. Failure and anonymity, those are my strengths - superiority from below.
James Murphy
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In reality, I am more a professor, one who reflects and mediates on spiritual questions. Practical governance is not my strong point, and this is certainly a weakness. But I do not see myself as a failure. For eight years, I carried out my work.
Pope Benedict XVI
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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.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
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I realized that I was afraid to really, really try something, 100%, because I had never reached true failure.
Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails
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The exposed nature of life in the public square affects leaders' attitudes toward risk - and failure.
Dee Dee Myers
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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.
Igor Sikorsky
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There has been a failure to grasp how competing narratives fight for the attention of angry young Muslims, and we have grossly underestimated the appeal of the jihadist brand.
Maajid Nawaz
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Failure. It doesn't exist. 'Failure' is just what happens when we lose perspective.
Donna Brazile
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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."
Regina King
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In my view, the first requirement for success for an entrepreneur is to dream big. The second aspect that prevents entrepreneurs from succeeding is fear of failure.
Naveen Jain
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Successful entrepreneurs find the balance between listening to their inner voice and staying persistent in driving for success - because sometimes success is waiting right across from the transitional bump that's disguised as failure.
Naveen Jain
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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.
Oprah Winfrey
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Men would bless you or curse you; The curse, a protest against failure, The blessing, a hymn of the hunter Who comes back from the hills With provision for his mate.
Kahlil Gibran
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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.
Freya Tingley