Failure Quotes
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I cannot think of any venture I have initiated where an earlier failure wasn't an important precursor to an eventual success.
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There is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction.
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Bitcoin is a peer-to-peer, decentralized form of money, as durable as the Internet itself. Remember, the Internet - or DARPA, as it was originally called - was created as a fail-safe, global network with no 'single point of failure.' If one part goes down, data takes another route, and nothing is lost.
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We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve.
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Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act.
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I don't have a fear factor. Well, not much of one. And I'm willing to risk quite a lot - as a comedian, you're always risking a lot. You're risking failure, especially if you're improvising and going on TV shows trying to make comedy out of thin air. That is quite a risky business.
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Two types of choices seem to me to have been crucial in tipping their outcomes towards success or failure: long-term planning, and willingness to reconsider core values. On reflection, we can also recognize the crucial role of these same two choices for the outcomes of our individual lives.
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Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the civilized world, while a totally voluntary society represents its ultimate success.
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Failure is a great learning tool.
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Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable.
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Increasing America’s debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that 'the buck stops here.' Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership.
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Failure isn’t a necessary evil. In fact, it isn’t evil at all. It is a necessary consequence of doing something new.
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Sometimes we never see what failure is and often fail to recognize it.
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The greatest artists like Dylan, Picasso and Newton risked failure. And if we want to be great, we've got to risk it, too.
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Pharmaceutical companies are enjoying unprecedented profits and access with this Administration. Yet the Republicans' prescription drug plan for seniors has been a colossal failure, and over 43 million Americans wake up every morning without health insurance.
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I don't lose any sleep at night over the potential for failure. I cannot even spell the word.
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I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure.
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Failure is not a disgrace if you have sincerely done your best.
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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.
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No learning can make up for the failure to pray. No earnestness, no diligence, no study, no gifts will supply its lack.
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It's not about failure; it's about trying something and risking something for attaining your goal.
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Failure can only open more doors for you as a person and as growth and life.
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It does not matter how frequently something succeeds if failure is too costly to bear.
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Entrepreneurialism, to me, means being able to fail. And I believe that kind of leadership is not necessary only in business, but it's necessary for running countries, too. You've got to be able to believe in something strongly enough that you want to do it even if there's a risk of failure.
