Failure Quotes
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The threat posed by Bank of America isn't just financial - it's a full-blown assault on the American dream. Where's the incentive to play fair and do well, when what we see rewarded at the highest levels of society is failure, stupidity, incompetence and meanness? If this is what winning in our system looks like, who doesn't want to be a loser?
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I don't know whether my life has been a success or a failure. But not having any anxiety about becoming one instead of the other, and just taking things as they come along, I've had a lot of extra time to enjoy life.
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Foreign aid is neither a failure nor a panacea. It is, instead, an important tool of American policy that can serve the interests of the United States and the world if wisely administered.
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Failure concentrates the mind wonderfully. If you don't make mistakes, you're not trying hard enough.
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Be prepared mentally for some amount of chaos and failure. Waste and frustration often attend the earliest stages.
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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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Havenotness is caused by society's failure to design and produce the right tools and goods. Money alone is not the panacea.
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Y'know, the real reason why I was such a failure in the sense of being unable to make any sort of a living was because I was really not motivated. I had no motivation.
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We need to discover the root causes of success rather than the root causes of failure.
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It is not failure itself that holds you back; it is the fear of failure that paralyzes you.
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My work ethic came from my parents and my fear of failure. I came from a small, predominantly black school and I didn't want to let them down.
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There are people who say that you can't experiment... That condemns you to failure.
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You must not demand the failure of your peers, because the more good things that are around in film, in television, in theater - why the better it is for all of us.
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Shake off your blunders. How will you know your limits without an occasional failure? Never quit. Your turn will come.
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I cannot think of any venture I have initiated where an earlier failure wasn't an important precursor to an eventual success.
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The gain isn't counted to the recluse and inactive that, having nothing to measure themselves by and never being tested by failure, they simmer and soak perpetually in conscious complacency.
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There's a spectrum of those moments of connection and the moments we fail to connect, going from super-large successes to failures. Success would be love, I guess, and failure could still be love, but the bad side; and loss.
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Oft expectation fails, and most oft there where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest, and despair most fits.
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Until both employers' and workers' groups assume responsibility for chastising their own recalcitrant children, they can vainly bay the moon about "ignorant" and "unfair" public criticism. Moreover, their failure to impose voluntarily upon their own groups codes of decency and honor will result in more and more necessity for government control.
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Success has many fathers, failure many sons.
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As efforts to fix this failure at the Veterans Administration continue, I also intend to persist in demanding answers and action on the establishment of a new clinic to serve the veterans in North Central Washington.
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Total failure isn't something I want to spend a lot of time envisioning. I'm pretty sure I'll recognize it if it comes.
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Running helped me learn how to deal with failure, and failure is a big part of the Internet business.
Chad Hurley -
Fear of failure has always been my best motivator.
