Failure Quotes
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We do not realise that we are children of eternity. If we did, then success would be no success, and failure would be no failure to us.
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When you're fearless, you take more risks because you're less conscious of failure or what can go wrong.
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The role played by education in all political utopias from ancient times onward shows how natural it seems to start a new world with those who are by birth and nature new. So far as politics is concerned, this involves of course a serious misconception: instead of joining with one's equals in assuming the effort of persuasion and running the risk of failure, there is dictatorial intervention, based upon the absolute superiority of the adult, and the attempt to produce the new as a fait accompli, that is, as though the new already existed.
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To interest is the first duty of art; no other excellences will ever begin to compensate for failure in this.
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I've come to realize that the difference in success or failure is not how you look, how you dress, or how you're educated. It's how you think !
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Radical common sense is the wisdom gleaned from the past that recognizes the perishable opportunities of the moment. It is the willingness to admit error and the refusal to be deterred by failure.
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For diabetes in particular, we know there's a relationship between lack of glucose regulation and complications like blindness and kidney failure. So if you were diabetic and you knew that you could get your glucose in a tight, normal range just by adjusting your lifestyle, wouldn't that be great?
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You are fortunate if you have learned the difference between temporary defeat and failure, more fortunate still if you have learned the truth that the very seed of success is dormant in every defeat that you experience.
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Failure: the renewable resource.
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Microsoft is always two years away from failure.
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In your hands, my fellow citizens, more than in mine, will rest the final success or failure of our course. Since this country was founded, each generation of Americans has been summoned to give testimony to its national loyalty. The graves of young Americans who answered the call to service surround the globe.
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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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If history offers no obvious solutions, however, it does at least provide the comfort of knowing that failure is nothing new.
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If failure is not an option, neither is success. Innovation is just repeated failure till you come up with something that works.
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Jobs for every American is doomed to failure because of modern automation and production. We ought to recognize it and create an income-maintenance system so every single American has the dignity and the wherewithal for shelter, basic food, and medical care. I'm talking about welfare for all. Without it, you're going to have warfare for all.
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Fear of failure has always been my best motivator.
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The only failure is not to try.
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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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It was unwise to plan too carefully. It took only one great failure to learn that lesson.
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We need to discover the root causes of success rather than the root causes of failure.
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With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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I would replace most foreign aid with a tax credit for businesses to invest. I think U.S. bureaucrats giving foreign bureaucrats money is a guaranteed failure. And we've had about 50 years' experience at failing with foreign aid.
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If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure.
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Some people will go to the opening of an envelope. They live their lives in the public eye and get off on it, they need it. They need that kind of adoration. If their name isn't in the tabloids once a week they feel like a failure.
