Failure Quotes
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My failure, during the first five or six years of my art training, to get set in the right direction, and the disappointment which it caused me, drove me the more persistently into writing as an alternative.
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Factors such as timing, luck, and destiny have a bearing on success. But success and failure are good teachers. Failure means something better is waiting for you. But I will allow myself to get upset at failure only if I know I have not given it my all.
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No man has ever gone through the crisis of deliberately making Jesus Lord and found Him to be a failure.
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And Mr. Ruff could have answered that question directly. He did not and his failure to do so speaks a thousand words.
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The greatest challenge to most innovation centers around the world is many nations' punitive attitudes towards failure. In most of the world, if your first business fails, no one will work with you again. But, trial and error is the genesis of innovation.
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Don't be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.
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Show me a good and gracious loser and I'll show you a failure.
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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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The key to accepting responsibility for your life is to accept the fact that your choices, every one of them, are leading you inexorably to either success or failure, however you define those terms.
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He's no failure. He's not dead yet.
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After that he turned to the question of invading England. Hitler said that during the previous year he could not afford to risk a possible failure; apart from that, he had not wished to provoke the British, as he hoped to arrange peace talks.
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Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm; great good fortune comes to failure in the end. All is change; all yields its place and goes; to persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man. The coward despairs.
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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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It's a failure of imagination if you can only write what you know - we have to be able to imagine different worlds.
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Success and failure are emotional and physiological experiences. We need to deal with them in a way that is present and calm.
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Vietnam ended a failure: repeatedly, to me, Kissinger described it as his greatest, and most persistent regret. But Congress was more to blame than Kissinger.
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Failure's a marker of success in its own right because you went out and tried something... If you really don't want to fail, go find a comfortable chair and stay there. Just don't go out and do anything.
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Every failure is a step to success. Every detection of what is false directs us towards what is true: every trial exhausts some tempting form of error. Not only so; but scarcely any attempt is entirely a failure; scarcely any theory, the result of steady thought, is altogether false; no tempting form of Error is without some latent charm derived from Truth.
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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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Once you become famous, you can't become unfamous. You can become a failure.
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So many times in my life, people have tried to make me a failure.
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I feel like every time I take on a movie, it's important that the possibility of failure exists, and of the unknown, because it's a challenge to do something I haven't done before and something I have to try to work out.
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Leadership is understanding people and involving them to help you do a job. That takes all of the good characteristics, like integrity, dedication of purpose, selflessness, knowledge, skill, implacability, as well as determination not to accept failure.
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If you visualize a failure, you tend to create the conditions that produce failure. Visualize-believe-and thank God in advance.
