Failure Quotes
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Indulging in unrestrained and immoderate laughter is a sign of intemperance, of a want of control over one's emotions, and of failure to repress the soul's frivolity by a stern use of reason.
Saint Basil
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If failure is not an option, then neither is success.
Seth Godin
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Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.
Orison Swett Marden
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The thing about a failure is that it is possible to deny it forever.
Karan Mahajan
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Is the proposed operation likely to succeed? What might the consequences of failure? Is it in the realm of practicability in terms of material and supplies?
Chester W. Nimitz
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I love failure. It's stuff that I'm thinking about all the time in my life, so it would make sense to me anyway to write about it.
Loudon Wainwright III
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Put aside whatever suspicions you may have about whether Donald Trump will be directly implicated in the Russia investigation. Trump is right now, before our eyes and those of the world, committing an unbelievable and unforgivable crime against this country. It is his failure to defend.
Charles M. Blow
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Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.
Og Mandino
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Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength.
Karen Armstrong
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Successful people are successful for one simple reason: they think about failure differently.
Seth Godin
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Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.
Malcolm Mclaren
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I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
Bill Cosby
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African Americans make up about 13 percent of the U.S. population but comprise 32 percent of patients treated for kidney failure, giving them a kidney failure rate that is 4.2 times greater than that of white Americans.
Xavier Becerra
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It is not a lack of spiritual experience that leads to failure, but a lack of working to keep our eyes focused and on the right goal. At least once a week examine yourself before God to see if your life is measuring up to the standard He has for you. Paul was like a musician who gives no thought to audience approval, if he can only catch a look of approval from his Conductor.
Oswald Chambers
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Art school had taught me it was far better to be a flamboyant failure than any kind of benign success.
Malcolm Mclaren
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I've always had to have some kind of failure before I was successful.
Dan O'Brien
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I don't take success and failure seriously. The only thing I do seriously is march forward. If I fall, I get up and march again.
Kareena Kapoor Khan
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People will still make great art, but I think it's good to assume you will always be a failure. People were believing the opposite.
Wade Guyton
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My teachers used to call me a failure
Tony Blair
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The average member of the public thinks of 'business' as an impersonal corporate entity owned by the very rich and managed by overpaid executives. There is an almost total failure to appreciate that 'business' actually embraces - in one way or another - most Americans.
Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
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Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
Calvin Coolidge
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No one ought to be under any illusion that Cheney privately thinks himself a failure.
Barton Gellman
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Start-ups make so many mistakes that the challenge to identify the root cause of a failure is tough. But believing in your own plan is probably the worst.
Eric Ries
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Capitalism, after all, is no fun when real failure becomes a possibility.
James Surowiecki