Failure Quotes
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When you're doing something that you think - that you know - is a breakthrough, you cannot obsess about the possibility of failure. That is just not a great place to go.
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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.
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Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.
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The thing about a failure is that it is possible to deny it forever.
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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.
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There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.
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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.
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Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent.
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Every time you go out there to do something, you wonder if you can do it. There's no assured success. There's no secret recipe for success. Every time you go out there, you go out there with the possibility of great failure.
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There is no such thing as an accident, only a failure to recognise the hand of fate.
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No one ought to be under any illusion that Cheney privately thinks himself a failure.
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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.
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Successful people are successful for one simple reason: they think about failure differently.
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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.
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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.
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The reality of most software development is that the consequences of failure are simply nonexistent.
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Capitalism, after all, is no fun when real failure becomes a possibility.
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I believe in never giving up, no matter what the odds. My mantra is, 'Failure is temporary. Giving up is permanent.'
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Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.
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You can't have any successes unless you can accept failure.
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Solyndra's failure isn't a reason for the government to give up on alternative energy, any more than the failure of Pets.com during the Internet bubble means that venture capital should steer clear of tech projects.
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Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.
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I've always had to have some kind of failure before I was successful.
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There is really no point in fearing failure or fearing embarrassment because in the end, we are all going to die. So, pursue your dreams, follow your heart, make the very most of your life and eventually leave behind the world in much much better place than when you found it. If at least one life has breathed a little easier because you have lived, that is what t means to have succeeded.
