Failure Quotes
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The failure of world leaders to act on the critical issue of global warming is often blamed on economic considerations.
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I think failing the qualifying or the 11-plus actually hurt me more than I realised. After I'd become a professor of physics at the Open University, I suddenly thought, 'This is a bit silly.' So I suddenly became much more open about it. But I think probably I was hurt by the failure and didn't want to talk about it.
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A positive outlook breeds success, just as a negative outlook breeds failure.
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A failure remains a failure only if we refuse to learn from it. Any situation that teaches us greater humility, sobriety, wisdom about self and others, responsibility, forgiveness, depth of reflection, and better decision making -\-\teaching us what's truly important-\-\is not an ultimate failure. Sometimes what we deem a failure at the time it happens actually serves to foster a change within us that creates an even greater success down the road.
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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.
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If 50 percent of your career is not filled with failure, you're not really successful.
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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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Our ignorance is not so vast as our failure to use what we know.
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When people have a willpower failure, it's because they haven't anticipated a situation that's going to come along.
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I've achieved everything I've wanted to achieve, so I'm not scared of failure. I never gave up, however bad the injuries got.
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Success attracts success and failure attracts failure because of the law of harmonious attraction.
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It's the way to do it. You can't have total transition unless you want to have total failure.
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If grace is so wonderful, why do we have such difficulty recognizing and accepting it? Maybe it's because grace is not gentle or made-to-order. It often comes disguised as loss, or failure, or unwelcome change.
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Rooting for other people's failure does get in the way of your success.
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Our success or failure is not in the hands of our leaders. It is in our hands.
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Failure is the foundation of success: success is the lurking place of failure.
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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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Don't be afraid of failure; be afraid of petty success.
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I really wanted to make the worst thing: the thing that even people who liked bad, terrible music wouldn't like - the stuff that people would ignore, always. Something really, really stupid. Something that is destined for failure.
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I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.
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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.
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That's the conundrum of cartoon stripping, as opposed to political cartoons. When your anger is the driving force of your drawing hand, failure follows. The anger is OK, but it has to serve the interests of the heart, frankly.
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Success comes to those who become success conscious. Failure comes to those who indifferently allow themselves to become failure conscious.
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Love and action always imply a failure, but this failure must not keep us from loving and acting. For we have not only to establish what our situation is, we have to choose it in the very heart of its ambiguity.
