Failure Quotes
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Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats; then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.
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An effective speaker knows that the success or failure of his talk is not for him to decide - it will be decided in the minds and hearts of his hearers.
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I can plunk out enough chords to write a song, but I'm completely afraid to play guitar in front of other people. It's a fear of failure, I guess.
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Milk which is just about to turn is akin to that moment spent on the cusp of failure in a dulled and fettered relationship.
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Good results are sometimes owing to a failure of judgment, because the faculty of judgment often hinders us from undertaking many things which would succeed if carried through without thinking.
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Much of the securitization took the form of collateralized debt obligations (CDOs) with senior credit tranches certified by rating agencies as AAA. It was the failure to properly price such risky assets that characterized the crisis.
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I find rejection or failure to be a really interesting and valuable experience.
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I think if you just eat healthy, you're active, and you don't beat yourself up, you're setting yourself up to win rather than setting yourself up for failure.
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When you experience a failure as a leader, don't hide it - talk about it. Your missed opportunity will encourage others to take risks.
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If you are going to have a risk-taking culture, you can't really look at every failure as a failure, you've got to be able to look at the failure as a learning opportunity.
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If you must fail ... fail spectacularly!
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So the poet, who wants to be something that he cannot be, and is a failure in plain life, makes up fictitious versions of his predicament that are interesting even to other persons because nobody is a perfect automobile salesman.
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Failure has been my best friend as a writer. It tests you, to see if you have what it takes to see it through.
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It wasn't only wickedness and scheming that made people unhappy, it was confusion and misunderstanding; above all, it was the failure to grasp the simple truth that other people are as real as you.
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My deepest regret from my years in public service is the failure of the United States and the international community to act sooner to halt these crimes.
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Politicians are terrified of losing touch with folks back home but content to be clueless about government's failure to fix real problems.
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What I try to get physically healthy people to understand is that they're going to die someday. There is no way out. And dying isn't failure, but not living is, so make use of your time. Don't keeping waiting.
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In addition to being an economic security issue, the failure to pay women a salary that's equal to men for equal work is also a women's health issue. The fact is that the salary women are paid directly impacts the type of health care services they are able to access for both themselves and their families.
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Military cemeteries in every corner of the world are silent testimony to the failure of national leaders to sanctify human life.
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It is a massive, undeniable failure and a heap of broken promises.
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Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.
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I was learning the craft; I didn't study writing in school. Rejection was my motivation, and failure is what taught me.
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Every stumble is not a fall, and every fall does not mean failure.
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Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure. When you conquer negative attitudes of doubt and fear you conquer failure.
