Failure Quotes
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We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations
Barack Obama
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Our main aim globally is to connect more women to the economy because we know there is a specific market failure there: women are having more difficulty in business than men.
Arancha Gonzalez
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If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.
E. O. Wilson
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I've learned to think in terms of having a long career. Actors can have very long careers that last until the day we die, but there will be moments when you'll feel like you're a failure or when you're disappointed in yourself.
Bryce Dallas Howard
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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
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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.
Marjorie Liu
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Failure is not the outcome - failure is not trying. Don't be afraid to fail.
Sara Blakely
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Success is not the absence of failure; it's the persistence through failure.
Aisha Tyler
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Christmas is the season I use to clock failure in life. It stops time, as it were, on the year - where you are in it, where you are in your travail unto the grave.
Padgett Powell
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Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats; then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.
Fred Allen
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When I returned to China from the United States, I didn’t have a U.S. passport, a wife, or a university degree. From the Chinese point of view, I was a total failure.
Ai Weiwei
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The fear of failure is so great, it is no wonder that the desire to do right by one's children has led to a whole library of books offering advice on how to raise them.
Bruno Bettelheim
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An effective speaker knows that the success or failure of his talk is not for him to decide - it will be decided in the minds and hearts of his hearers.
Dale Carnegie
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Not failure, but low aim is sin.
Benjamin E. Mays
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In the different voice of women lies the truth of an ethic of care, the tie between relationship and responsibility, and the origins of aggression in the failure of connection.
Carol Gilligan
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Failure is enriching. It's also important to accept that you'll make mistakes - it's how you build your expertise. The trick is to learn a positive lesson from all of life's negative moments.
Alain Ducasse
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With improvisation, I just do it. It might be a total failure but then you just throw the dice again.
Christian Marclay
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I will not allow yesterday's success to lull me into today's complacency, for this is the great foundation of failure.
Og Mandino
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A failure to act is a terrible, stunning legacy for any leader. But far worse when it is the president of the United States. And that's the point driven home by Romney's selection of Ryan, who dared to lead when Obama did not.
Mark McKinnon
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Failure is life at it's most poignant and it's only there to push you in the right direction.
Oprah Winfrey
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If I didn't have children, I think my life would be a failure.
Yann Martel
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The failure of modern evangelicalism is the failure to understand the holiness of God.
R. C. Sproul
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What I try to get physically healthy people to understand is that they're going to die someday. There is no way out. And dying isn't failure, but not living is, so make use of your time. Don't keeping waiting.
Bernie Siegel
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I talk with the authority of failure - Ernest with the authority of success. We could never sit across the same table again.
F. Scott Fitzgerald