Failure Quotes
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I don't need to be looking at every failure of government, I need to be looking where failure of government needs reform.
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If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done.
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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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Thoughts are things; they have tremendous power. Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to 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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Failure is a stepping-stone to greatness.
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Whether a man lives or dies in vain can be measured only by the way he faces his own problems, by the success or failure of the inner conflict within his own soul. And of this no one may know save God.
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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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Never let the sense of failure corrupt your new action.
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If we lose the spirit of 'go,' we have lost the very Christian spirit itself. A disobedient church will become a dead church. It will die of heart failure.
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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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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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The more control you have over your life, the more responsible you feel for your own success - or failure.
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If you can't admit a failure, you're not an entrepreneur. You are not a good business person. There's nothing brilliant about what you are doing.
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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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The failure to dissect the cause of war leaves us open for the next installment.
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...we like somebody who succeeds with such bad conscience, and who seems to wish that he had the nerve to be a failure or, better still, something to which the terms success and failure don’t apply-as when Mallory said, about Everest: 'Success is meaningless here.'
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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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There is failure in every industry; there is failure in every step. It's just that we are working in an industry where everything is just out there; that is why it looks so magnified. But failure is a part of life.
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Failure was being used as a weapon, rather than as an agent of learning.
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Problems are the cutting edge that distinguishes between success and failure. Problems ... create our courage and wisdom.
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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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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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When you come off 'The X Factor,' you're more likely to be a failure than a success because people almost want you to fail. There's this kind of feeling that you're separate from everyone else. You get it from artists, people in the industry, people at record labels.
