Failure Quotes
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The more congenial page of some tenth-rate poeticule worn out with failure after failure and now squat in his hole like the tailless fox, he is curled up to snarl and whimper beneath the inaccessible vine of song.
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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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A prosthetically enhanced imagination is still liable to failure, especially if it is not used with sufficient rigor.
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Sometimes what we deem a failure at the time it happens actually serves to foster a change within us that creates an even greater success down the road.
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Failure comes part and parcel with invention. It’s not optional.
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Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. Tragedy isn't getting something or failure to get it; it's losing something you already have. Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
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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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It is a very common failing, never to be pleased with our fortune nor displeased with our character.
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I'm finding that success is way more time-consuming than failure ever was.
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The power of fear of failure, with will to win, is an incredible force. I don't think we should be worried about having a fear of failure; I think it's quite natural. If you surveyed any top businessman or any top athlete, I bet if they were truthful, they would all say they've got a fear of losing and a fear of failure.
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Failure to meet market expectations here will reinforce the market perception that the peak in US rates is clear, putting the dollar under renewed pressure.
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I feel like 'Just.me' is not successful, but it is not a failure.
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We have to provide more visibility, more certainty to the investors and reduce the cost of failure.
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There are twelve good reasons for failure. The first one is the avowed intention of doing no more than one is paid to do, and the person who makes this avowal may see the other eleven by stepping before a looking glass.
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Failure's still something I can say I've achieved
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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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It's a failure of national vision when you regard children as weapons, and talents as materials you can mine, assay, and fabricate for profit and defense.
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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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Through some strange and powerful principle of ''mental chemistry'' which she has never divulged, nature wraps up in the impulse of strong desire, ''that something'' which recognizes no such word as ''impossible,'' and accepts no such reality as failure.
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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.
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Among the older records, we find chapter after chapter of which we can read the characters, and make out their meaning: and as we approach the period of man's creation, our book becomes more clear, and nature seems to speak to us in language so like our own, that we easily comprehend it. But just as we begin to enter on the history of physical changes going on before our eyes, and in which we ourselves bear a part, our chronicle seems to fail us-a leaf has been torn out from nature's record, and the succession of events is almost hidden from our eyes.
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I don't think failure is to be overcome as much as it is to be learned from.
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The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater the secret failure.
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"Some who deserve failure do not achieve it,” he sniffed. “Some who deserve nothing are given the world.
