Failure Quotes
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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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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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There would seem to be a limit, even for an art preoccupied with boundaries and transgressions, beyond which a work reaches its breaking point and becomes an actual failure, a mere experimentation.
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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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Remember what Susan B. Anthony said? 'Failure is impossible.' Failure is possible if women don't vote.
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Every failure is a lesson learned about your strategy.
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As an entrepreneur, I've come across countless articles and quotes proudly telling me that I should accept failure, smile, and keep my head up. In other words, I've been told to stay positive. The thing is, when you're forced to shut down a business and let really awesome people you care about go, staying positive is the last thing on your mind.
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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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Surviving failure is one thing. Surviving success is... is challenging, with the consequences and what you lose along the way.
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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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Show me a completely contented person and I'll show you a failure.
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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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So I try not to have any actual expectations for myself for any level of success or failure.
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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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Adam Smith's huge failure was the fact that he did not foresee the industrial revolution.
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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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To the eye of failure success is an accident.
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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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Who I am as a guitarist is defined by my failure to become Jimi Hendrix.
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War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.
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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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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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Great achievers are driven, not so much by the pursuit of success, but by the fear of failure.
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The business of biomedical research is mostly about failure. Few projects we commission will ultimately result in success. But every study we do contributes to the body of knowledge that brings science and society closer to a solution.
