Failure Quotes
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I think everyone shares a fear of failure - that you're only as good as your most recent collection. That's definitely a fear, but it's a fear that fuels me, that makes me want to work harder, that makes me take on more challenges.
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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 experienced success, I've experienced failure, I've been a world champion, I've fought all over the world; I think I've experienced enough that I won't get in front of a million people and get gunshy.
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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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He's no failure. He's not dead yet.
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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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Hope was based on the unknown, and I liked knowing things. Like that I was going to fail. Failure had better odds.
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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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We have to provide more visibility, more certainty to the investors and reduce the cost of failure.
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What people often ask me is, 'What are the ingredients of Silicon Valley?' While the answer to that is complex, some of the ingredients I talk about are celebrating entrepreneurship, accepting failure, and embracing a mobile and diverse workforce.
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To me, failure is not fatal unless you quit; getting knocked down is not embarrassing unless you allow it to keep you down.
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In football, I learned about trust, handling failure, embracing discomfort, and rejection, which has helped with the auditions.
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Rationality is what we do to organize the world, to make it possible to predict. Art is the rehearsal for the inapplicability and failure of that process.
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I don't feel a sense of personal failure. If there is a sense of failure, it's that I let the people who invested in me, who invested in this campaign down.
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The only failure is not to try.
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At the heart of the failure of most plays is the inability to carry on a thoughtful conversation about your work with yourself.
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Well, I could have been a famous singerIf I had someone else's voiceBut failure's always sounded betterLet's fuck it up, boys, make some noise!
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Everyone understands the European Union is a failure. It has not kept any of its promises - in particular about prosperity, security - and, worst of all, has put us under a guardianship.
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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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All human activities are equivalent … and … all are on principle doomed to failure.
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Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.
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I will not be discouraged by failure; I will not be elated by success.
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When we learn to expect more success than failure in life, we soon will develop an attitude of success.
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I am not working for failure, but for success, and for a real gain, and I must go the way to get it. I am sure the putting manhood suffrage in the Bill is not the way to get it. This has been done by the Chartists, and by the Complete Suffragists, but what has become of their Bills?
