Failure Quotes
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Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.
George Eliot
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Doubt is one of the main paths on the highway to failure.
Rick Pitino
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It's only when you risk failure that you discover things. When you play it safe, you're not expressing the utmost of your human experience.
Lupita Nyong'o
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Not failure, but low aim, is crime.
James Russell Lowell
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War is an admission of failure
Tom Holt
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Nobody likes to fail but failure is an essential part of life and of learning. If your uniform isn't dirty, you haven't been in the game.
Ben Bernanke
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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.
Napoleon Hill
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There's no question that Kennedy was an utter failure as a passer of laws during his proverbial thousand days.
Rick Perlstein
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I felt like a failure for so long because I wasn't able to access myself in the way I knew I would have if I was going to make music that mattered. I knew I was going to have to learn how to be honest.
John Grant
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My life has been nothing but a failure.
Claude Monet
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Failure is our most important product.
R. W. Johnson
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And each forgets, as he strips and runs With a brilliant, fitful pace, It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones Who win in the lifelong race. And each forgets that his youth has fled, Forgets that his prime is past, Till he stands one day, with a hope that's dead, In the glare of the truth at last.
Robert W. Service
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Most people don't really do too many things because they're afraid they'll fail. There are people failing all the time, all around you. And nobody is going to notice your failure. Your failure is not going to be so spectacular that people write news stories about it. Your failure will be boring.
Kumail Nanjiani
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Cheerfully fessing up to our failures turns crazy mind off, humility and compassion on. I learned this in a karate dojo that had a strange tradition. Everyone there loved recounting failure stories, and after an evening of smacking one another, we'd sit and have a beer while the students swapped tales of martial arts disaster.
Martha Beck
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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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Failure isn't failure unless you just stop with that.
Miesha Tate
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A success that has outlived its usefulness may, in the end, be more damaging than failure.
Peter Drucker
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The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide.
James A. Baldwin
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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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It is only through failure and through experiment that we learn and grow.
Isaac Stern
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The greatest failure is the failure to try.
William Arthur Ward
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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.
Edward Thomson
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Learn from failure. If you are an entrepreneur and your first venture wasn’t a success, welcome to the club!
Richard Branson
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The primary reason for failure is that people do not develop new plans to replace those plans that didn't work.
Napoleon Hill