Failure Quotes
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Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure.
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The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.
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As might be supposed, my parents were quite poor, but we somehow never seemed to lack anything we needed, and I never saw a trace of discontent or a failure in cheerfulness over their lot in life, as indeed over anything.
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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.
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For me, it's always a failure of the imagination. I have that anxiety that time is passing, that everything is ultimately fleeting and impermanent. I better take advantage of every single moment.
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Failure to believe stems from moral failure to recognize the truth, not from want of evidence, but from willful neglect or distortion of the evidence.
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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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I had to succeed. Failure means I would have to be homeless again.
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Our ignorance is not so vast as our failure to use what we know.
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Basically, I still have the privacy that all celebrities crave, except for those celebrities who feel that privacy reflects some kind of failure on their part.
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Capitalism without failure is like religion without sin. Bankruptcies and losses concentrate the mind on prudent behavior.
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I thought of my mother. Freud wrote that no man is secure in the love of his mother can ever be a failure. Well, I had been busy proving that theory wrong.
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The only real failure in life is one not learned from.
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Is anarchism possible? The failure of attempts to attain freedom does not mean the cause is lost.
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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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If anyone has seen success and failure on a global stage, it's my friend Steve Forbes.
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So many times in my life, people have tried to make me a failure.
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Failure is an indispensable prerequisite of success. It is how you learn the lessons you need.
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Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them.
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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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It is doubtful if even experience of riches and success is as intense among those who have experienced nothing else as among those who have also experienced poverty and failure. There is little romance in wealth to those who have been born wealthy and whose families have been wealthy for generations.
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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.
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The road to the promised land runs past Sinai. The moral law may exist to be transcended: but there is no transcending it for those who have not first admitted its claims up on them, and then tried with all their strength to meet that claim, and fairly and squarely faced the fact of their failure.
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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.
