Failure Quotes
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Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.
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Ambition, I’ve found, can lead only to failure. I do not read the reviews. No, I am not singing for you.
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It was unwise to plan too carefully. It took only one great failure to learn that lesson.
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Many successful people have found opportunities in failure and adversity that they could not recognize in more favorable circumstances.
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The more control you have over your life, the more responsible you feel for your own success - or failure.
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You need not spend your life wallowing in failure, ignorance, grief, poverty, shame and self-pity. There is a better way to live.
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The fact that nobody asks you to sing is not an indication that you should sing louder. This sounds obvious until it's applied to matters like mass transportation. There are virtually no private mass transit companies. This does not represent the failure of the market to provide a needed service, it represents the failure of an unneeded service to go away!
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If we say we trust in Him, but in reality do not, then God, taking us at our word, lets us see that we do not really confide in Him; and hence failure arises.
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I was learning the craft; I didn't study writing in school. Rejection was my motivation, and failure is what taught me.
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To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure, but risks must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
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There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from failure.
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The truth is when you have a movie that was as successful as 'Chronicle' was, it's not as quick of a process. There are a lot more voices coming in and saying 'This is what the sequel should be' because there's a bigger expectation and a bigger fear of failure. And that's really what's going on with 'Chronicle 2.'
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The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.
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You have to pretend you're 100 percent sure. You have to take action; you can't hesitate or hedge your bets. Anything less will condemn your efforts to failure.
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I would replace most foreign aid with a tax credit for businesses to invest. I think U.S. bureaucrats giving foreign bureaucrats money is a guaranteed failure. And we've had about 50 years' experience at failing with foreign aid.
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On this showing, the nature of the breakdowns of civilizations can be summed up in three points: a failure of creative power in the minority, an answering withdrawal of mimesis on the part of the majority, and a consequent loss of social unity in the society as a whole.
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Failure holds the seeds for greatness - so long as you water those seeds with introspection, they can be the root of your success.
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There were plenty of reasons to suspect Obamacare might have been a colossal failure - although none of them had to do with death panels, huge lines for treatment, a government takeover of health care, etc.
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I will commit not the terrible crime of aiming too low. I will do the work that a failure will not do. I will always let my reach exceed my grasp.
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It's - everybody's looking at the bottom line all the time, and failure doesn't look good on the bottom line, and yet you don't learn anything without failing.
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We do not realise that we are children of eternity. If we did, then success would be no success, and failure would be no failure to us.
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Insurrection, n. An unsuccessful revolution. Disaffection's failure to substitute misrule for bad government.
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You will be wounded many times in your life. You'll make mistakes. Some people will call them failures but I have learned that failure is really God's way of saying, "Excuse me, you're moving in the wrong direction." It's just an experience, just an experience.
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If you can meet success and failure and treat them both as impostors, then you are a balanced man, my son.
