Failure Quotes
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Failure is life at it's most poignant and it's only there to push you in the right direction.
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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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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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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.
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The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.
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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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In the great undertakings, there is glory, even in failure.
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The pressures are intense, because the rewards for success and the penalty for failure are more and more.
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The onset of a crisis is usually triggered by a spectacular failure which shakes confidence in fictitious forms of capital.
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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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I will not allow yesterday's success to lull me into today's complacency, for this is the great foundation of failure.
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If I didn't have children, I think my life would be a failure.
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I don't think there's any way it could have failed. We don't know failure in this band. We didn't know failure. We got to know it a little after awhile but at that time there was no such word.
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We are doomed to failure without a daily destruction of our various preconceptions.
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On 2006 Israel-Lebanese war '..the net result is you have an Israeli government in disarray and a United States administration so identified with Israeli failure right now that it hurts the United States around the world.'
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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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You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.
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In my mind, partial failure is always better than delusory success.
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War is tragedy. The great war stories are tragedies. It's the failure of diplomacy. 'War and Peace,' 'A Farewell to Arms,' 'For Whom the Bell Tolls.' Those are some of the greatest tragedies.
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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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Dreams are important, but if they are not followed up by a commitment to the process, then they will simply remain daydreams, never seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. If you are interested in fulfilling your destiny, then you must learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of success.
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Call it the Tiger Mom effect: In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option.
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It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.
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Accordingly, France Had Voltaire, and his school of negative thinkers, and England (or rather Scotland) had the profoundest negative thinker on record, David Hume: a man, the peculiarities of whose mind qualified him to detect failure of proof, and want of logical consistency, at a depth which French skeptics, with their comparatively feeble powers of analysis and abstractions stop far short of, and which German subtlety alone could thoroughly appreciate, or hope to rival.
