Failure Quotes
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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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I feel rejecting rejection is one of the most crucial steps in getting past failure.
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The first proof of a person's incapacity to achieve, is their endeavoring to fix the stigma of failure on others.
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I've had great success and I've had catastrophic failure. It's really how you handle the rough stuff that defines you, I think.
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How come we never use prison, the failure of prison, as a reason not to give more prison? There's never a moment where we say, 'OK, well, prison hasn't worked, so we're not going to try that again.'
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I had this contract to write songs for people when I was about 18. I don't think any of them were taken up; I was a complete failure at it! But I've kept doing it, writing little songs for myself.
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There are people who say that you can't experiment... That condemns you to failure.
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I spend a lot of time going over old conversation summaries. A lot of the old ones are about ideas that ended in failure, the project didn't work. But hey, you know what? That was five years ago, and now computers are faster, or some new information has come along, the world is different. So we're able to reboot the project.
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So while I will never minimize the costs involved in military action, I am convinced that a failure to act in Libya would have carried a far greater price for America.
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No learning can make up for the failure to pray. No earnestness, no diligence, no study, no gifts will supply its lack.
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A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions - as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.
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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.
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Doesn't Joe Wilson owe the President and American an apology for his deception and his own intelligence failure? — March 15, 2004
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I've seen high and lows. When things go well that doesn't make me feel like some genius. Nor will I allow the next disappointment to make me feel like a complete failure.
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We must remember that failure gives us chances to grow, and we ignore those chances at our own peril.
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There is no such things as darkness, only a failure to see.
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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 -
Is anarchism possible? The failure of attempts to attain freedom does not mean the cause is lost.
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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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In the old days, variety turns like me learned how to cope with failure - we all had nights when we 'died' on stage - but today's youngsters simply don't have that experience. For them, it really is instant make or break time - hence, all the tears and, hence, all the potential emotional damage.
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'I'm accusing you of violating the laws of nature,' he said, irritated at my failure to respond. 'Nature's virtue is intact,' I reassured him. 'I just know some different laws.'
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The moral I draw is that the writer should seek his reward in the pleasure of his work and in release from the burden of thought; and, indifferent to aught else, care nothing for praise or censure, failure or success.
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One of the things I definitely think of as a driver of me is fear. And it's fear of failure, fear of being overtaken.
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The key to accepting responsibility for your life is to accept the fact that your choices, every one of them, are leading you inexorably to either success or failure, however you define those terms.
