Failure Quotes
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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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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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With improvisation, I just do it. It might be a total failure but then you just throw the dice again.
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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 more control you have over your life, the more responsible you feel for your own success - or failure.
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There is something impure in the laments about the dangers of our time, as if they could serve to excuse our personal failure.
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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.
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Sometimes we never see what failure is and often fail to recognize it.
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To legislation... the Puritans resorted. Instead of guiding, they repressed, and thus pitted themselves against the unconquerable impulses of human nature. Believing that nature to be depraved, they felt themselves logically warranted in putting it in irons. But they failed; and their failure ought to be a warning to their successors.
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The failure of the system to deal quickly was attributable to Nixon's lying, stonewalling and refusal to come clean. So it took 26 months for the final truth to be known.
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So what are we saying?Our Eden's a failure.A made-up story to fit the picture-perfect world.The one with 'I do's and 'I love you.'And 'we are made for each other.'Is forever over now?
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Where but in the very asshole of comedown is redemption: as where but brought low, where but in the grief of failure, loss, error do we discern the savage afflictions that turn us around: where but in the arrangements love crawls us through
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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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Don't let failure get you down. Babe Ruth struck out over 1,300 times.
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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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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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Education is the only billion dollar industry that tolerates abject failure.
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Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God.
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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.
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It is common for those who flourish under any system to feel that the failure of others is deserved.
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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.
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Using, as an excuse, others’ failure of common sense is in itself a failure of common sense.
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Testing proves a programmer’s failure. Debugging is the programmer’s vindication.