Failure Quotes
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The more failure you can accept, the greater your chance of success.
Chris Matthews
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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.
John Rampton
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The attempt to suppress an idea has always and everywhere proved a failure.
Helen Keller
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Has Bill Clinton inspired idealism in the young, as he himself was inspired by John F. Kennedy? Or has he actually reduced their idealism? Surely part of the answer lies in Clinton's personal moral lapse with Monica Lewinsky. But more important was his sin of omission - his failure to embrace a moral cause beyond popularity.
Arlie Russell Hochschild
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Boys with a 'failure to launch' are invisible to most girls. With poor social skills, the boys feel anger at their fear of being rejected and self-loathing at their inability to compete.
Warren Farrell
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He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
Paul Tillich
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Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit.
Napoleon Hill
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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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Sunday itself-that unfortunate failure of a holyday as it too often proved, what with my sense of its fugitiveness, and over-care to get the greatest quantity of pleasure out of it …
Charles Lamb
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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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So what are we saying?Our Eden's a failure.A made-up story to fit the picture-perfect world.The one with 'I do's and 'I love you.'And 'we are made for each other.'Is forever over now?
Sarah McLachlan
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Success is cutting off all of your options for failure.
Anthony Robbins
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You have to be able to accept failure to get better.
LeBron James
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In school, we learn that mistakes translate into bad grades. This unfortunate lesson gets burned into our brains, and we go through life shunning challenges that might end in failure.
Mark Frauenfelder
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Your attitude towards failure determines your altitude after failure.
John C. Maxwell
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Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.
Coco Chanel
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Humanitarian missions are little different from any other public enterprise, diplomacy included, which is susceptible of misinterpretation by the public, hence ultimately of failure.
Alvin Adams
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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.
Allen Tate
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Wishing will not bring riches. But desiring riches with a state of mind that becomes an obsession, then planning definite ways and means to acquire riches, and backing those plans with persistence which does not recognize failure, will bring riches.
Napoleon Hill
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Every failure is a lesson learned about your strategy.
Thomas A. Edison
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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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You want to ensure people can do it right 99 percent of time. When we have to fire one of our surgical trainees, it is never because they don't have the physical skills but because they don't have the moral skills - to practise and admit failure.
Atul Gawande
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Even as far back as when I started acting at 14, I know I've never considered failure.
Jennifer Lawrence
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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.
Chin-Ning Chu