Failure Quotes
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Success is not the absence of failure; it's the persistence through failure.
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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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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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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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One has to remember that every failure can be a stepping stone to something better.
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It is only possible to succeed at second-rate pursuits - like becoming a millionaire or a prime minister, winning a war, seducing beautiful women, flying through the stratosphere, or landing on the moon. First-rate pursuits - involving, as they must, trying to understand what life is about and trying to convey that understanding - inevitably result in a sense of failure. A Napoleon, a Churchill, or a Roosevelt can feel himself to be successful, but never a Socrates, a Pascal, or a Blake. Understanding is forever unattainable.
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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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There are only really a few stories to tell in the end, and betrayal and the failure of love is one of those good stories to tell.
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I'm finding that success is way more time-consuming than failure ever was.
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Here we go again, a government which is making yet more excuses for yet more failure when it comes to getting our budgetary situation right.
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With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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I've seen high and lows. When things go well that doesn't make me feel like some genius. Nor will I allow the next disappointment to make me feel like a complete failure.
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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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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.
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Sometimes we never see what failure is and often fail to recognize it.
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The worst of failure in this kind is that it spoils the market for more competent performers.
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You have to look at the history of the Middle East in particular. It has been one of failure and frustration, of feudalism and tribalism.
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Don't let failure get you down. Babe Ruth struck out over 1,300 times.
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In my mind, partial failure is always better than delusory success.
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If one asks for success and prepares for failure, he will get the situation he has prepared for.
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Failure is the most terrible thing in our business. When we fail, the whole world knows about it.
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So many people spend so much time on things that aren't important. It's the difference between success and failure.
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Failure is not a disgrace if you have sincerely done your best.
