Failure Quotes
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Learning starts with failure; the first failure is the beginning of education.
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He's no failure. He's not dead yet.
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The failure of the system to deal quickly was attributable to Nixon's lying, stonewalling and refusal to come clean. So it took 26 months for the final truth to be known.
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My citizen activism is a direct outgrowth of a classical and fiscally conservative training in economics at Harvard. It is a perspective rooted in one of the most important concepts in economics - the need for government intervention in the presence of a market failure.
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Every adversity, every failure, and every heartache, carries with it the Seed of an equivalent or greater Benefit.
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I've been through a lot in my career, and the failure that I've gone through makes me really appreciate the moments of success much more.
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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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Failure is an indispensable prerequisite of success. It is how you learn the lessons you need.
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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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The failure of the United Nations - My failure is maybe, in retrospective, that I was not enough aggressive with the members of the Security Council.
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Failure is a trickster with a keen sense of irony and cunning. It takes great delight in tripping one when success is almost within reach.
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When preaching is done right, it can change lives. When it's done badly, my failure goes beyond the merely human.
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Actually, we have misdefined 'hypocrisy.' Hypocrisy is not the failure to practice what you preach but the failure to believe it. Hypocrisy is propaganda.
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You must not demand the failure of your peers, because the more good things that are around in film, in television, in theater - why the better it is for all of us.
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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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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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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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Bare hands grip success better than kid gloves. Be thorough in all things, no matter how small or distasteful! The man who counts his hours and kicks about his salary is a self-elected failure.
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So many times in my life, people have tried to make me a failure.
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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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The terror of failure can make you feel like a failure. So a bunch of people think you're not very good at your thing. How much do you invest in what they say? How much do you care? Failure is not putting yourself on the line.
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It's your own fear of failure that stops you from doing things.
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Focus on the possibilities for success, not on the potential for failure.
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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.
