Failure Quotes
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Independent women must expect more of themselves, since neither men nor other more conventionally domesticated women will hope for anything, or expect any result other than utter failure.
A. S. Byatt
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You're always just trying to create opportunities and be ready when those opportunities present themselves. I can't look at anybody and think 'I want to be Damian Lewis' - I'd be setting myself up for failure.
Diego Klattenhoff
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The only thing I learned is that failure sucks, and you never want to do it. There's not a lot to be said for that particular lesson.
Parker Conrad
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The man who meets with a failure attributes this failure rather to the ill will of another than to fate.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I think to visualize failure as you're starting off is really a bad thing to do.
Marcia Gay Harden
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There is a major disaster when a person allows some success to become a stopping place rather than a way station on to a larger goal. It often happens that an early success is a greater moral hazard than an early failure.
Bill Vaughan
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Success and failure are largely self-defined in terms of personal standards. The higher the self-standards, the more likely will given attainments be viewed as failures, regardless of what others might think.
Albert Bandura
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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.
Jerry Rice
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If 50 percent of your career is not filled with failure, you're not really successful.
John Larroquette
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I'm willing to work with anyone of either party who has a good idea and the commitment to see through. And we should all expect you to hold us accountable for our progress or our failure to deliver.
Barack Obama
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The pursuit of holiness must be anchored in the grace of God; otherwise it is doomed to failure.
Jerry Bridges
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There's tons of creative people in television that have one failure after another, and they just step up higher. I could never get over that. When I had a failure, there was no such thing as just getting over it.
Chuck Barris
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We need to discover the root causes of success rather than the root causes of failure.
David Cooperrider
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If the worst happens, if you lose and fail, but you still celebrate coming second because you've given it a red hot go. There is no need to fear failure.
Anh Do
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Whenever you have a failure or setback, you need to take a step back and find out what you can learn from the scenario. What did you do to contribute to that failure? This way, you can make sure you don't repeat that pattern.
Jillian Michaels
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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.
James Marsh
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One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat.
Napoleon Hill
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The power of fear of failure, with will to win, is an incredible force. I don't think we should be worried about having a fear of failure; I think it's quite natural. If you surveyed any top businessman or any top athlete, I bet if they were truthful, they would all say they've got a fear of losing and a fear of failure.
John Caudwell
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Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure.
Norman Vincent Peale
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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.
Peter Kreeft
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Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
Denis Waitley
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it has now become obvious that most of the state institutions, including the judiciary, the army, the security apparatus and most of the government departments, stood against him Morsi. They acted in a co-ordinated manner to foment a crisis aimed at impeding the president and forcing failure on him.
Tawakkol Karman
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Is there a place here for the spirit ? Is there time on this brief platform for anything other than mind 's failure to explain itself?
R. S. Thomas
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A prosthetically enhanced imagination is still liable to failure, especially if it is not used with sufficient rigor.
Daniel Dennett