Failure Quotes
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Exercise, from a public health perspective, is an unmitigated failure. The world's longest-lived people live in environments that nudge them into more movement. They don't use power tools, they do their own yard work, they grow a garden.
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There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success.
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Once he had been so formidable that he was surrounded by enemies. Now even his enemies has lost interest in him. What clearer sign of failure could you find than that?
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Don't stay in a bad situation - whether it is a relationship or a job - out of fear of failure. It's not a failure to walk away and choose to be happy. It takes a lot of courage.
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But if you look at WorldCom, which is the biggest failure to date, they grew dramatically, they were buying companies that were bigger than they were and they were doing it off inflated stock.
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He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
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I don't need to be looking at every failure of government, I need to be looking where failure of government needs reform.
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If you can look at your failure and answer yes to the questions, "Did I give it my absolute best effort?" and "Have I learned something valuable?" then you have failed in the right way. By these standards, I've failed many times in my career. But every failure has made me stronger and wiser. Inevitably, success has always followed.
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Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.
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In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit is relative to a stereotyped world, and meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that makes two persons, things, situations, seem alike.
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Those who succeed and do not push on to greater failure are the spiritual middle-classers.
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Whether we can call 'Hell or High Water' this rogue buddy bank-heist movie, it's also a meditation on assimilation and failure and what happens when someone loses their purpose.
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Intemperance and intolerance serve no one, and hatred guarantees failure.
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Giving thanks to God for both His temporal and spiritual blessings in our lives is not just a nice thing to do - it is the moral will of God. Failure to give Him the thanks due Him is sin.
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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.
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I guess it's the fear of failure and not knowing how the films are going to do that just drives us to work really hard to make them the best they can possibly be.
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I think that what women need to hear is that there is life after failure.
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Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success.
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So many fail because they don't get started - they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
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Thoughts are things; they have tremendous power. Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to 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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Success is always less funny than failure.
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When you walk past a painting in a museum, if it doesn't make you feel something, then it's probably a failure.
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Failure is always an option.
