Failure Quotes
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"Some who deserve failure do not achieve it,” he sniffed. “Some who deserve nothing are given the world.
Catherynne M. Valente
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I constantly experience failure in that my work is never as good as I want it to be. So I live with failure.
Jeremy Irons
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I've had many failures in terms of technological... business... and even research failures. I really believe that entrepreneurship is about being able to face failure, manage failure and succeed after failing.
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
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To have grazed every form of failure, including success.
Emil Cioran
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It isn't the Lord who withholds himself from us. It is we who withhold ourselves from him because of our failure to keep his commandments.
Harold B. Lee
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Our success or failure is not in the hands of our leaders. It is in our hands.
Alan Keyes
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It's fascinating to me: when it comes to innovation in policy, it all comes from the states, ... It reflects an abject failure of policy (at the national level) in terms of dealing with energy, the environment or the securities industry. And into that void, the states have stepped.
Eliot Spitzer
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One has to remember that every failure can be a stepping stone to something better.
Colonel Sanders
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Using, as an excuse, others’ failure of common sense is in itself a failure of common sense.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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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.
Daniel Lubetzky
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I like to do matrices. One option per line, different facets for each column. Salary, location, happiness index, failure index, and all that.
Marissa Mayer
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Health care confronts us with a difficult test. We have never corrected failure in something so deeply embedded in people's lives and in the economy without the pressure of an outright crisis.
Atul Gawande
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Even when we were struggling, people had been reluctant to think that Iraq would turn out like Vietnam, a failure for the United States.
Andrew Kohut
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There's blame to go around but in the end, the federal government is our last defense and it's the failure of the federal government that has people in this country worried.
Eleanor Clift
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There was a failure to recognize the deep problems in AI; for instance, those captured in Blocks World. The people building physical robots learned nothing.
Marvin Minsky
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It is common for those who flourish under any system to feel that the failure of others is deserved.
Adrian Goldsworthy
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Hope was based on the unknown, and I liked knowing things. Like that I was going to fail. Failure had better odds.
Nami Mun
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Human beings are compelled to live within a lie, but they can be compelled to do so only because they are in fact capable of living in this way. Therefore not only does the system alienate humanity, but at the same time alienated humanity supports this system as its own involuntary master plan, as a degenerate image of its own degeneration, as a record of people's own failure as individuals.
Vaclav Havel
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Breaking down barriers is tough. Many companies make the mistake of dismissing diversity early on, only to realize later how foundational it is to their success or failure.
Christine Tsai
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Failure has been correctly identified as the line of least persistence.
Zig Ziglar
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Don't look back, because that's the sign of failure.
James Hetfield Metallica
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The one good thing about failure is that it makes you consider doing things a different way.
Marianne Williamson
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No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
David O. McKay
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Such knowledge is probably gained in several ways. One process undoubtedly operates through social comparison of success and failure experiences. Children repeatedly observe their own behavior and the attainments of others.
Albert Bandura