Failure Quotes
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Every failure is a lesson learned about your strategy.
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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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So I try not to have any actual expectations for myself for any level of success or failure.
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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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Fear of failure held me back from being a DIYer for many years, especially after a few early attempts at home improvement projects went awry.
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Failure is an option. It's what you do with the failure that makes you who you are. Our failures mold us. I have failed at several things in my life. What sets some of us apart, is that when we fail, we can't sleep at night. It haunts us until we have our time at redemption.
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My father believed strongly, and taught me, that you can't let yourself get too high on a success or too low on a failure. In this volatile business, that's useful to know.
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No one is beat till he quits,No one is through till he stops,No matter how hard Failure hits,No matter how often he drops,A fellow's not down till he liesIn the dust and refuses to rise.
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Remember what Susan B. Anthony said? 'Failure is impossible.' Failure is possible if women don't vote.
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To the eye of failure success is an accident.
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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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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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Scott Adams is not only a world-famous cartoonist, he's also a world-class failure. And he's the first to admit it. In his new book, 'How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big,' the Dilbert creator explains how failure can lead to success if you develop the right skills to make the most of your mistakes.
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To double your successes, you might have to double your failure rate.
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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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While it's important to accept failure and not let it bog you down, it's also perfectly acceptable to get upset about it as long as you remember that failure is a stepping stone in your journey that is getting you to where you need to be.
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Show me a completely contented person and I'll show you a failure.
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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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Adam Smith's huge failure was the fact that he did not foresee the industrial revolution.
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War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.
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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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The whole history of religion is a history of the failure of preaching. Preaching is moral violence.
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Success is cutting off all of your options for failure.
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Who I am as a guitarist is defined by my failure to become Jimi Hendrix.
