Failure Quotes
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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.
C. S. Lewis
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But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.
Bodhidharma
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When you hold things back, when you don't commit completely to your ideas and trust completely in your own instincts, you are guaranteeing your own failure - even if you end up having commercial success.
Philipp Meyer
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I'm fascinated by failure, and I'm fascinated by finality. Shakespeare's historical plays are more universal than his comedies because they relate to the finality of life. Without finality, life would not be beautiful.
George Hickenlooper
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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.
William Feather
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Show me a satisfied man, and I'll show you a failure.
Albert Einstein
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The deep root of failure in our lives is to think, 'Oh how useless and powerless I am.' It is essential to think strongly and forcefully, 'I can do it,' without boasting or fretting.
Dalai Lama
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Failure is the foundation of success: success is the lurking place of failure.
Lao Tzu
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Keep in mind that our community is not composed of those who are already saints, but of those who are trying to become saints. Therefore let us be extremely patient with each other's faults and failures.
Mother Teresa
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Making mistakes doesn't mean that what you did was a failure, or the wrong take. It was just a 'mis-take.' You need to go back and do another take. In each take there is a lesson.
Wally Amos
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The failure of world leaders to act on the critical issue of global warming is often blamed on economic considerations.
David Suzuki
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Like most young people, these two attributed to the world their own intelligence and virtues. Youth who knows no failure has no mercy on the faults of other people; but it has also a sublime faith in them.
Honore de Balzac
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I had to succeed. Failure means I would have to be homeless again.
Elie Tahari
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Our country's honor calls upon us for a vigorous and manly exertion; and if we now shamefully fail, we shall become infamous to the whole world.
George Washington
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I think success has no rules, but you can learn a great deal from failure.
Jean Kerr
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I research best practices and recipes for success and failure to craft personalised policies for my city.
Aja Brown
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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.
George Eliot
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No man can be a failure if he thinks he's a success; If he thinks he is a winner, then he is.
Robert W. Service
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Failure, failure is so important, it doesn’t get spoken about enough, we speak about success all the time.
Joanne Rowling
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The British health care system is a blueprint for the failure of Obamacare, as it is structured.
Marsha Blackburn
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Risk and failure is a part of our equation, and if you are seeing too little failure, you are actually probably not taking enough risks.
Peter Barris
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There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.
John Keats
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One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
John W. Gardner
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Surely the test of a novel's characters is that you feel a strong interest in them and their affairs-the good to be successful, the bad to suffer failure. Well, in John Ward, you feel no divided interest, no discriminating interest-you want them all to land in hell together, and right away.
Mark Twain