Failure Quotes
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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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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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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.
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Who I am as a guitarist is defined by my failure to become Jimi Hendrix.
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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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What other people label or might try to call failure, I have learned is just God's way of pointing you in a new direction.
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Thoughts are things; they have tremendous power. Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure.
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The more control you have over your life, the more responsible you feel for your own success - or failure.
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Failure has a thousand explanations. Success doesn't need one.
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Failure is always an option.
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The failure to dissect the cause of war leaves us open for the next installment.
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Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.
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Every company needs to have a skunkworks, to try things that have a high probability of failing. You try to minimize failure, but at the same time, if you're not willing to try things that are inherently risky, you're not going to make progress.
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I hate how box-office failures are blamed on an actress, yet I don't see a box-office failure blamed on men.
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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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It is Basic Management 101 that if you reward failure you are going to get more failure, and if you want success you should reward success. But if you look at the way this administration has approached national security, they have kind of got that principle backwards.
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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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If you think my career has been a failure because I have never won a national title, you have another thing coming.
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Fear and the thought of failure . . . But we don't really know what fear is. Fear is something that we create in our own minds. Fear could be like fire. You can use it to heat you up, keep you warm, cook your food. There are so many things you can use it for. But if you allow it to go out of control, it will destroy you and everything around you.
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Those who succeed and do not push on to greater failure are the spiritual middle-classers.
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The failure to prosecute trivializes the acts constituting the crime, suggesting, in the case of President Bush, that torture, disappearance, cruel and inhuman treatment, abrogation of our treaties, violation of our laws on privacy, deception of the Congress, and subversion of the constitutional checks on war making are minor matters, easily overlooked. It means rejecting what used to be regarded as core American values, and even worse, sends a clear signal to future presidents that they may act with similar disregard for the law.
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Tasting failure, even when you truly believe in a project, is a critical part of the growth process.
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Once you can accept failure, you can have fun and success.
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Failure is a stepping-stone to greatness.
