Failure Quotes
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I don't want success to affect me to that extent that I change or failure to that extent that I get sad, bitter and negative.
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YouTube began as a failed video-dating site. Twitter was a failed music service. In each case, the founders continued to try new concepts when their big ideas failed. They often worked around the clock to try to overcome their failure before all their capital was spent. Speed to fail gives a startup more runway to pivot and ultimately succeed.
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If you can't send your daughter to school when you know it will help her, you feel a sense of failure, and you feel that failure deeply.
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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.
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I like Diaspora because it's audacious, it's driven by passion, and it's very, very hard to do. After all, who in their right mind would set as a goal taking on Facebook? That's sort of like deciding to build a better search engine - very expensive, with a high likelihood of failure.
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I write good songs out of fear... fear of failure. Because if they're not good enough, you feel yourself starting to fall.
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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.
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The success and the failure are not my concern, but His.
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In the words of Madame Leota in the film The Haunted Mansion, 'You try, you fail, you try, you fail, but the only true failure is when you stop trying
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The average person would have quit at the first failure. That’s why there have been many average men and only one Edison.
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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.
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Once our country is fully engulfed in a debt crisis, our economy will be torn apart, and every American will be a victim of the federal government's failure to prevent this disaster.
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I've always had a love of cards, ever since I was a little kid. I think poker, as a system, describes the chaos of the world. Our sudden reversals, our freak streaks of fortune. The belief that the next hand can save you, and the inevitable failure of the next hand to save you. I think that describes my world view pretty well.
Colson Whitehead -
Failure is less attributable to either insufficiency of means or impatience of labours than to a confused understanding of the thing actually to be done.
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I have a congenital aversion to failure.
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If we can actually decrease the failure rate from nine out of 10 drugs failing in clinical trials and instead have seven out of 10 instead failing, that is a major victory for drug discovery and for people having better therapy.
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I'd rather learn how to prevent failure than how to gain success, because for what is success other than a state of mind?
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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.
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It is good to have a failure while you're young because it teaches you so much. For one thing it makes you aware that such a thing can happen to anybody, and once you've lived through the worst, you're never quite as vulnerable afterward.
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The worst time was 1983. Love and life and everything went wrong. I reached absolute rock bottom. I saw the Minotaur at the bottom of the abyss. I learnt of the harshness of the world and its impartiality to human failure.
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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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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.
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Something is wanting, and something must be done, or we shall be involved in all the horror of failure, and civil war without a prospect of its termination.
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The hippy movement was a failure.
