Failure Quotes
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The vast majority of large scale change efforts fail. Which means that the probability that you have actually experienced a failure, and your people know that and are pessimistic, therefore, about trying something again, is very high.
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Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God.
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I had my dreams, and even though everyone told me that they weren't practical, I knew in my heart that this is what I had to do. Even if it ended up being a failure, I had to make the attempt.
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If one asks for success and prepares for failure, he will get the situation he has prepared for.
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A positive attitude is important, but it is only part of the story. Understanding how to surmount pain, doubt, and failure is a vital component in winning the game of life.
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Let there be no doubt that any failure by Iraq to comply with its obligations will lead to serious consequences, ... For it is only the credible threat of force which has brought Iraq this far today.
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Failure doesn't kill you... it increases your desire to make something happen.
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Failure has been correctly identified as the line of least persistence.
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I don't have any fear of failure whatsoever. I used to, and I told myself I wouldn't allow myself to anymore.
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Failure isn’t a necessary evil. In fact, it isn’t evil at all. It is a necessary consequence of doing something new.
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Failure is a great learning tool.
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Definitely, it's a fear of failure that drives me.
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Most striking feature... is the author’s failure to understand the elementary mechanics of the competitive economic organization.
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In the great undertakings, there is glory, even in failure.
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Where but in the very asshole of comedown is redemption: as where but brought low, where but in the grief of failure, loss, error do we discern the savage afflictions that turn us around: where but in the arrangements love crawls us through
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We are not to call for tyranny and bans on freedom. It is obvious that we cannot stop publication of what we view as indecent in our sacred faith...failing to make use of Western freedom of press and other technologies to show the West the values of Islam is intellectual failure and a guilt that should not be linked to Islam.
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Through its support of mass immigration, its paralysis in power to prevent 12-20 million illegal aliens from entering and staying, its failure to address the 'anchor-baby' issue, the Republican Party has birthed a new electorate that will send it the way of the Whigs.
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Who I am as a guitarist is defined by my failure to become Jimi Hendrix.
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Pharmaceutical companies are enjoying unprecedented profits and access with this Administration. Yet the Republicans' prescription drug plan for seniors has been a colossal failure, and over 43 million Americans wake up every morning without health insurance.
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As a people we have become obsessed with Health. There is something fundamentally, radically unhealthy about all this. We do not seem to be seeking more exuberance in living as much as staving off failure, putting off dying. We have lost all confidence in the human body.
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I see disappointment as something small and aggregate rather than something unified or great. With a little effort, every failure can be turned into something good.
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Over the next four years, we will be bold. We will be willing to experiment. We will not fear failure.
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All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs.
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It's how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success.
