Failure Quotes
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The thing about failure is that you never know how close you were to success.
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When people ask, "Is there any advice you'd give a young writer?," I say write short stories. They afford lots of failure. Pastiche is a great way to start.
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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.
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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.
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What people call success is only preparation for the next failure.
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Remember, you only have to succeed the last time.
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Stop thinking, and end your problems. What difference between yes and no? What difference between success and failure? Must you value what others value, avoid what others avoid? How ridiculous!
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I do not know how history will judge me, but let me say that I've spent a lot of time and energy trying to transform the Tatas from a patriarchal concern to an institutional enterprise. It would, therefore, be a mark of failure on my part if it were perceived that Ratan Tata epitomises the Group's success. What I have done is establish growth mechanisms, play down individuals and play up the team that has made the companies what they are. I, for one, am not the kind who loves dwelling on the 'I'. If history remembers me at all, I hope it will be for this transformation.
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Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really?... True effectiveness requires balance.
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The failure of credit markets is one of the major reasons for underdevelopment.
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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.
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You cannot learn anything from success, you only learn from failure.
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Success is boring... failure is exciting and more entertaining.
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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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Patience as we wait to take action is a kind of compassionate mind. Impatience on the other hand can be a source of failure.
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Don't worry about failure; you only have to be right once.
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Sometimes failure isn't an opportunity in disguise, it's just you.
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Failure is never fatal. But failure to change can and might be.
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I may be a successful football player, but I feel like such a failure.
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Lamon, that speech won't scour. It is a flat failure and the people are disappointed.
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I'm not the guy who's afraid of failure. I like to take risks, take the big shot and all that.
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I think I've failed every test I've ever taken. If there was a failure I would have been it.
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I have a congenital aversion to failure.
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People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right, writes no guarantee against misfortune.
