Failure Quotes
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In a curious failure of comprehension, I looked alertly about me for possible targets for all this artillery fire, not, apparently, realizing that it was actually ourselves that the enemy gunners were trying for all they were worth to hit.
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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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I feel, in the end, as if everything I've done has been a failure.
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People in the business will stay with you through drugs and alcohol and divorces and insanity and everything else, but you have a failure, pal, and they don't want to know nothing about you!
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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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Be greedy for social change, and your life will be endlessly enriched. The only failure lies in not trying, or giving up.
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If you try to do your best there is no failure.
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The sentiments in Hawaii about Washington's failure of leadership are no different than the rest of the country.
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Who I am as a guitarist is defined by my failure to become Jimi Hendrix.
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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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I know that when you are experiencing failure, it's pretty damn painful. It is easy in retrospect to wax poetic about it. But in the moment, you don't think you will survive, let alone have the time to reflect on how valuable those lessons will be for you in the future.
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When you taste super-success after tasting super-failure, there is huge relief.
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A man can fall many times in life, but he's never a failure until he refuses to get back up.
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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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Thoughts are things; they have tremendous power. Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure.
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You have to risk failure to succeed. The important thing is not to make one single mistake that will jeopardize the future.
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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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You get so afraid of failure and so afraid of losing and so afraid of not being the best that it's not a natural drive - it's born out of fear of failure. Which helps in Hollywood.
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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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It was an interesting question as to whether the BBC had a future in the digital world, and what form of market failure could justify the licence fee system.
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Nothing is too small. I counsel you, put down in record even your doubts and surmises. Hereafter it may be of interest to you to see how true you guess. We learn from failure, not from success!
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Don't be frightened of failure. It makes you stronger if you learn from your mistakes.
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The failure to dissect the cause of war leaves us open for the next installment.
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If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done.
