Failure Quotes
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Any president can start a war, and use the chaos of disorder that such a war creates as an indefinite argument for prolonging it. It's a war that keeps on giving. Failure means it's even more necessary to keep failing.
Andrew Sullivan -
Failure is not a disgrace if you have sincerely done your best.
Napoleon Hill
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I had five years of failure, really, before I had the first initial sign of success.
James Rothman -
Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.
Coco Chanel -
Intelligent media companies strive to provide both intellectual and comedy programs, groundbreaking and reflective articles, art house and popular movies. Not to be open minded in providing a full range of quality media would be a failure to serve the breadth and depth of the communities we live in.
Lachlan Murdoch -
I believe only in art and failure.
Jane Rule -
The time I had waited probably made the difference between success and failure.
Anna Neagle -
The failure to work out sensible budgets makes it impossible for government agencies to make long-term plans, and instead leaves them scrambling to spend money in the short term.
Matt Taibbi
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Even as far back as when I started acting at 14, I know I've never considered failure.
Jennifer Lawrence -
Breaking down barriers is tough. Many companies make the mistake of dismissing diversity early on, only to realize later how foundational it is to their success or failure.
Christine Tsai -
The failure mode of clever is 'asshole.'
John Scalzi -
Hollywood... a city I was to come back to time and again, in sickness and in health, in success and in failure, with anticipation and with dread.
Dirk Benedict -
We humanitarians, as our name suggests, believe that man has an ethical duty to man. We believe that the value of any system is measured by the consideration given to all human beings, not just to a favored class: and by that standard, our present system is a miserable failure.
Damon Knight -
I was taught you don't tell your secrets to strangers - certainly not secrets that expose error, weakness, failure. My generation, like its predecessors, was taught that since our achievements received little notice or credit from white America, we were not to discuss our faults, lapses, or uncertainties in public.
Margo Jefferson
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It doesn't matter how far you might rise. At some point you are bound to stumble because if you’re constantly doing what we do, raising the bar. If you're constantly pushing yourself higher, higher the law of averages not to mention the Myth of Icarus predicts that you will at some point fall. And when you do I want you to know this, remember this: there is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction.
Oprah Winfrey -
Until both employers' and workers' groups assume responsibility for chastising their own recalcitrant children, they can vainly bay the moon about "ignorant" and "unfair" public criticism. Moreover, their failure to impose voluntarily upon their own groups codes of decency and honor will result in more and more necessity for government control.
Mary Barnett Gilson -
No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
David O. McKay -
The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.
Ayn Rand -
Trying is the first step toward failure.
Homer -
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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As a younger player, you always kind of play with that fear of failure.
Jason Giambi -
To double your successes, you might have to double your failure rate.
Mahatma Gandhi -
There is something impure in the laments about the dangers of our time, as if they could serve to excuse our personal failure.
Elias Canetti -
So many people spend so much time on things that aren't important. It's the difference between success and failure.
Brian Tracy