Failure Quotes
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Black rage is largely a response not to white racism but to black failure.
Dinesh D'Souza
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Every stumble is not a fall, and every fall does not mean failure.
Oprah Winfrey
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The main cause of failure is the inability to deal with self-doubt.
Bill Bartmann
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Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure.
Gary Ryan Blair
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I never blame failure - there are too many complicated situations in life - but I am absolutely merciless toward lack of effort.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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If you must fail ... fail spectacularly!
Ransom Riggs
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There is no such thing as failure in love. Relationships end, but they don’t fail. Love is only a failure when you don’t learn and you don’t try.
Amy Chan
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Every book I've written has been a different attempt to understand something, and the success or failure of the previous one is irrelevant. I write the book I want.
Yann Martel
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My story of success and failure is not just about music and being famous. It's about living and loving and trying to find purpose in this crazy world.
Wynonna Judd
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The Bay of Pigs became a metaphor for feckless folly and failure.
Pat Buchanan
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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.
Bryan Adams
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It appears that PepsiCo views structural change as a sign of weakness, an admission of failure, and an untenable break with past traditions.
Nelson Peltz
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We can't have a failure in Iraq, but we also can't be there for the next 10 years because if we are, it's going to become, I think, a failure in and of itself.
Dennis Ross
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Problems are the cutting edge that distinguishes between success and failure. Problems ... create our courage and wisdom.
M. Scott Peck
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A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
Christopher Morley
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I find rejection or failure to be a really interesting and valuable experience.
Brian Grazer
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Critics? Don't talk to me of critics! You think some jackanapes journalist, his soul eaten away by the maggots of jealousy and failure, has anything worthwhile to say of art? I don't.
Jonathan Raban
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We fail to see the purifying and refining effect wrought by the flames of adversity. These flames are not meant to consume but only to purify us. Disguised as adversity, blessings are showered upon us.
A. Theodore Tuttle
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The lessons I learned from my mother and her friends have guided me through death, birth, loss, love, failure, and achievement, on to a Fulbright scholarship and Harvard Business School. They taught me to believe that anything was possible. They have proven to be the strongest family values I could ever have imagined.
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
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Failure was being used as a weapon, rather than as an agent of learning.
Edwin Catmull
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We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.
Charles Kettering
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Be prepared to ride the cycles and trends of life; success is never permanent, and failure is never final.
Brian Tracy
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Three or four years ago a distinguished Frenchman, M. Hovelacque, published an article on America in the Revue de Paris in which he maintained that the essential weakness of our American civilization lay in the failure of our education to produce any equivalent of the superior man of Confucius or the καλὸς κἀγαθός of the Greeks.
Irving Babbitt
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Lack of loyalty is one of the major causes of failure in every walk of life.
Napoleon Hill