Failure Quotes
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The whole history of religion is a history of the failure of preaching. Preaching is moral violence.
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Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
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Uncertainty and the prospect of failure can be very scary noises in the shadows. Most people will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.
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Not failure, but low aim is sin.
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Commit yourself to a dream. Nobody who tries to do something great, but fails, is a total failure. Why? Because he can always be assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle; he defeated the battle of not trying.
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So I try not to have any actual expectations for myself for any level of success or failure.
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But if you have a solid walk with the Lord, then you won't fear that failure.
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Intemperance and intolerance serve no one, and hatred guarantees failure.
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We can't leave everything to the free market. In fact, climate change is, I would argue, the greatest single free-market failure. This is what happens when you don't regulate corporations and you allow them to treat the atmosphere as an open sewer.
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A love of nature is a consolation against failure.
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We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
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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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Any effort... to make the obscure obvious is likely to be unappealing, for the penalty of failure is confusion while the reward of success is banality.
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Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.
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Working hard to fulfill a dream or instinct and learning over time it doesn't work, doesn't mean a career is over and a reputation killed. When a reputation is killed, it's when failure comes as a result of loss of integrity or judgement... breaking of laws.
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Fear stifles our thinking and actions. It creates indecisiveness that results in stagnation. I have known talented people who procrastinate indefinitely rather than risk failure. Lost opportunities cause erosion of confidence, and the downward spiral begins.
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There are a whole host of psychological phenomenon humans have developed to protect ourselves from the sting of failure, from holding ourselves less accountable for our failures than we do other people, to letting our fear paralyze us and keep us from even trying.
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If you try to do your best there is no failure.
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There is no middle ground in Hollywood; you're a failure or you're a success. That mentality is wild.
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My biggest failure is I have too many to talk about.
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Surviving failure is one thing. Surviving success is... is challenging, with the consequences and what you lose along the way.
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Failure in Afghanistan would have profound consequences for our national security. It would undermine the NATO alliance structure that has been the bedrock of Britain's defence for the last 60 years... I will not allow this to happen on my watch.
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Any president can start a war, and use the chaos of disorder that such a war creates as an indefinite argument for prolonging it. It's a war that keeps on giving. Failure means it's even more necessary to keep failing.
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We are more heavily invested in the theories of failure than we are in the theories of success.
