Failure Quotes
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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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Failure or success seems to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting with their star or against it, and in the whole universe the only really interesting movement is the wriggle.
E. M. Forster
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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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We must radiate success before it will come to us. We must first become mentally, from an attitude standpoint, the people we wish to become.
Earl Nightingale
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There's a melancholy sense of things lost in the shabbier British seaside towns; of comfortable failure and better times long gone.
Christopher Fowler
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We encourage failure among young men; we celebrate it... It's a badge of honour for a man. Yet attach those same words and experiences to a woman, and society writes her off.
Whitney Wolfe Herd
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Failure is just a way for our lives to show us we're moving in the wrong direction, that we should try something different.
Oprah Winfrey
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As long as you are trying your very best, there can be no question of failure.
Mahatma Gandhi
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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
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Formal declarations of mistrust, pre-nups are emotionally unfortunate. They overtly plan for failure, and thus involve a jarring cognitive dissonance.
Lionel Shriver
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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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It is our failure to become our perceived ideal that ultimately defines us and makes us unique.
Conan O'Brien
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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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But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.
Bodhidharma
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Government doesn't have a high tolerance for failure.
John Hickenlooper
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We often sometimes forget that- prior to the invention of removable pipe- there really were no English Bibles. We have treasures, we have Bibles in every size and shape and color. But there's a failure to recognize what's contained inside the cover of the Bible. We grow apathetic, and I think that the issue is reacting to the Word of God. Not just carrying, but get back into the Word of God and then get the Word of God into us. It's all about mining the scripture, memorizing the scripture, and meditating with our scripture.
Hank Hanegraaff
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There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.
John Keats
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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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The younger me was motivated by a need to please others, by the pressure to climb the corporate ladder and make money, and by a fear of failure - all of which became more and more intense as I navigated the competitive landscape.
Bonnie Hammer
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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.
B. C. Forbes
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If you get into a Broadway show and it doesn't work, you're a failure. And if it does work, you may be stuck for who knows how long. It just doesn't sound great to me!
Betty White
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The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure.
John C. Maxwell
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Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems.
Nelson Rockefeller
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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