Failure Quotes
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Drifting, without aim or purpose, is the first cause of failure.
Napoleon Hill
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For many young men, joining in a radical movement is a way of feeling powerful, which is particularly intoxicating for men who feel their masculinity has been called into question, whether through victimisation or a failure to achieve the status that they feel they are entitled to.
Deeyah Khan
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I'm living life as best I can - but I'm not exempt from failure and making bad choices.
LeAnn Rimes
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I don't know if it's a failure of imagination on my part, but I'm not going to be writing about Paris in the 1800s. I feel like it would come off as just ludicrously uninformed, even if I did a lot of research.
Maria Semple
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Nine Inch Nails was an experiment with me in discipline. I realized when I was 23 that I had never really tried anything. Schoolwork came easy to me. I learned to play piano effortlessly. I was coasting. I realized that I was afraid to really, really try something, 100 percent, because I had never reached true failure.
Trent Reznor
Nine Inch Nails
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A failure teaches you that something can't be done-that way.
Thomas A. Edison
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Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature.
Phyllis Schlafly
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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 may be a successful football player, but I feel like such a failure.
Brett Favre
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What people call success is only preparation for the next failure.
August Strindberg
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Be patient, if thou wouldst thy ends accomplish; for like patience is there no appliance effective of success, producing certainly abundant fruit of actions, never damped by failure, conquering all impediments.
J_K_Bharavi
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In any restaurant, my eyes alight first, as if by an atavistic pull, on the meat dishes on the menu. In any dinner party I throw, I think of the non-vegetarian dish as central. I view this as a combination of weakness, greed and moral failure. Someone please help.
Neel Mukherjee
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Our success or failure is not in the hands of our leaders. It is in our hands.
Alan Keyes
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There's a silly notion that failure's not an option at NASA. Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.
Elon Musk
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Failure is the foundation of success: success is the lurking place of failure.
Lao Tzu
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Yes, I've heard of the 'Mad Men' comparisons, but I like to think 'The Hour' has its own distinctive voice. Although it is set in 1956, I have tried to give it a contemporary edge, and its themes of love, passion, romance, fury, professional jealousy, and personal failure are universal, I think.
Abi Morgan
