Failure Quotes
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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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The only person who needs to know about failure is yourself.
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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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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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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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Running helped me learn how to deal with failure, and failure is a big part of the Internet business.
Chad Hurley -
But there's no way round it-commercial success is a mark of failure for a graffiti artist. We're not supposed to be embraced in that way. When you look at how society rewards so many of the wrong people, it's hard not to view financial reimbursement as a badge of self-serving mediocrity.
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I've had a lot of disappointments. I think my biggest disappointment is the failure of elected officials to make good on their promises in regards to the environment or anything else, really. I have very little faith in politicians.
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But there is still a considerable difference between a failure to do enough that is right and a determination to do much that is wrong.
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For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.
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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 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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Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.
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I strongly believe that whenever there's failure or you feel like you've failed, it's only just the beginning, and you can only learn from it.
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Ultimately there is no such thing as failure. There are lessons learned in different ways.
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There is no such things as darkness, only a failure to see.
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On this showing, the nature of the breakdowns of civilizations can be summed up in three points: a failure of creative power in the minority, an answering withdrawal of mimesis on the part of the majority, and a consequent loss of social unity in the society as a whole.
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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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As might be supposed, my parents were quite poor, but we somehow never seemed to lack anything we needed, and I never saw a trace of discontent or a failure in cheerfulness over their lot in life, as indeed over anything.
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If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.
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My feeling, based on my own experience, is that aiming for grandiosity is the fastest route to failure.
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I always try to balance life by thinking failure of any kind, be it relationship or any project, should not affect me as an individual.
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We would be billionaires, but we took responsibility for Summa's failure.
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I even get inspired by movies that aren't very good, because there's always something good in movies that are collectively thought of as a failure. There's good in everything, I find.
