Failure Quotes
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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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No man leaves where he is and seeks a distant place unless he is in some respect a failure.
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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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There is a vast difference between failure and temporary defeat.
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I love Rauschenberg. I love that he created a turning point in visual history, that he redefined the idea of beauty, that he combined painting, sculpture, photography, and everyday life with such gall, and that he was interested in, as he put it, 'the ability to conceive failure as progress.'
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I think to visualize failure as you're starting off is really a bad thing to do.
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My work ethic came from my parents and my fear of failure. I came from a small, predominantly black school and I didn't want to let them down.
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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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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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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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The failure to set standards for Palestinian conduct hurts the cause of peace.
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There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.
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Usually, with the work I've done, by the end, I usually feel like it's a failure. It doesn't matter how it's received.
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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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I think he Oswald felt he was a failure and for the United States and for President Kennedy and all of us. He knew he was a failure at everything he tried, frustrated, with a very sad life, but he was a Marxist.
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An illness is a failure to solve a mental or psychological problem in the correct manner . . . The energy that would be used to solve the problem instead is spent maintaining the illness. It is therefore necessary that an attempt be made as soon as possible to solve the problem, which of course must first be discovered by the ego, which has avoided it.
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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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The saddest life is that of a political aspirant under democracy. His failure is ignominious and his success is disgraceful.
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The first thing successful people do is view failure as a positive signal to success.
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Our ignorance is not so vast as our failure to use what we know.
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At the core of the risk-free society is a self-indulgent failure of nerve.
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Learning starts with failure; the first failure is the beginning of education.
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Having failed, do you accept failure, saying only: Well, it is so. I will turn to other things? When night comes, do you accept the blackness of it, saying only: Well, it is so. I will turn and wait for morning? Or do you go on striving to light a candle against that dark however often the wind blows out the flame, however often the night returns?
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Success unshared is failure.
