Failure Quotes
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Fear and the thought of failure . . . But we don't really know what fear is. Fear is something that we create in our own minds. Fear could be like fire. You can use it to heat you up, keep you warm, cook your food. There are so many things you can use it for. But if you allow it to go out of control, it will destroy you and everything around you.
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Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being.
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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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Many years ago, when I was just about as complete a failure as one can become, I began to spend a good deal of time in libraries, looking for some answers. I found all the answers I needed in that golden vein of ore that every library has.
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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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While entrepreneurs spend a lot of effort trying to avoid failure, sometimes the lessons one learns from those missteps can be invaluable.
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No man leaves where he is and seeks a distant place unless he is in some respect a failure.
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A writer's life is so hazardous that anything he does is bad for him. Anything that happens to him is bad: failure's bad, success is bad; impoverishment is bad, money is very, very bad. Nothing good can happen... Except the act of writing.
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I always performed out of fear of failure - and that's a tough way to play. It was as if my back was to the wall and I was constantly surrounded by very dangerous people that were not friendly to me.
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There is a vast difference between failure and temporary defeat.
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I feel as if I've been so inured to failure, because I fail more than I succeed. As with any kind of fiction, I throw out so many pages; I get rejected so many times.
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The success and the failure are not my concern, but His.
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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 worst time was 1983. Love and life and everything went wrong. I reached absolute rock bottom. I saw the Minotaur at the bottom of the abyss. I learnt of the harshness of the world and its impartiality to human failure.
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Among all the tests President Obama faced in his first term, his biggest failure was climate change.
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Like anyone, I'm scared of failure. That drives you to work really hard.
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If a process or adaptation seems too smart for nature, that's a failure of your imagination, not the hand of God. I can make that claim because we have a working model of life's morphing and molding without it.
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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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Any strategy that involves crossing a valley-accepting short-term losses to reach a higher hill in the distance-will soon be brought to a halt by the demands of a system that celebrates short-term gains and tolerates stagnation, but condemns anything else as failure. In short, a world where big stuff can never get done.
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I've failed a lot, you know, in football, and I've gone on a lot of auditions, been told no, been told I'm not right, so I know what failure feels like. It's about the work.
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My greatest fear is failure.
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Nothing mitigated failure except the knowledge that it did not matter.
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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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The tendency to follow the path of least resistance guarantees failure in life.
