Failure Quotes
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When people ask, "Is there any advice you'd give a young writer?," I say write short stories. They afford lots of failure. Pastiche is a great way to start.
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As you get older, you have more and more layers of experience to forgive, more layers of heartbreak, more layers of what you might think of as failure.
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The men who have done big things are those who were not afraid to attempt big things, who were not afraid to risk failure in order to gain success.
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You may be a dreadful failure. Christ is a divine success. Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.
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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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The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.
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The single biggest difference between financial success and financial failure is how well you manage your money. It's simple: to master money, you must manage money.
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I find writing very difficult. It's hard and it hurts sometimes, and it's scary because of the fear of failure and the very unpleasant feeling that you may have reached the limit of your abilities.
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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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To many men, moderate success is only another aspect of failure.
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Today I begin a new life. Today I shed my old skin which hath, too long, suffered the bruises of failure and the wounds of mediocrity. Today I am born anew and my birthplace is a vineyard where there is fruit for all.
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We must remember that failure gives us chances to grow, and we ignore those chances at our own peril.
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The failure to return thanks for definite blessings received is a manifestation of ingratitude that grieves Jesus Christ.
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We've been publishing the TechStars data fully since the beginning on TechStars.com. For every single company, you can see if it's a failure, success, how much they raised. Entrepreneurs deserve that sort of transparency from accelerators, and it's not hard to do.
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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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I would be a winner because I was a loser! That's right. I dream of failure every night of my life, and that's my secret. To makeit in this rat race you have to dream of failing every day. I mean, that is reality.
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Failure, it is thought, is what sells, and what people want to hear and read about. I am not so sure.
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Ninety-nine percent of pilots that go up never have engine failure, and the 1 percent that do usually land it. But if you're up in the air and something goes wrong, you pull that parachute, and the whole plane goes down slowly.
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At the end of the day I have always seen the end of my relationships as a personal failure. There is nothing ever pretty in saying goodbye.
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The biggest enemies we have to overcome on the road to success are not a lack of ability and a lack of opportunity but fears of failure and rejection and the doubts that they trigger.
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The most fundamental liberal failure of the current era: the failure to embrace a moral vision of America based on the transcendent faith that human beings are more than the sum of their material appetites, our country is more than an economic machine, and freedom is not license but responsibility.
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Action without planning is the cause of all failure. Action with planning is the cause of all success.
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The failure to set standards for Palestinian conduct hurts the cause of peace.
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I do not know how history will judge me, but let me say that I've spent a lot of time and energy trying to transform the Tatas from a patriarchal concern to an institutional enterprise. It would, therefore, be a mark of failure on my part if it were perceived that Ratan Tata epitomises the Group's success. What I have done is establish growth mechanisms, play down individuals and play up the team that has made the companies what they are. I, for one, am not the kind who loves dwelling on the 'I'. If history remembers me at all, I hope it will be for this transformation.
