Failure Quotes
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Even in a gleefully negative comic, there is optimism, although it's slightly hidden: It comes out through a comic character's sheer tenacity. He keeps going and trying to find some sort of fulfillment regardless of his perpetual failure record. That's a form of hope, a form of optimism. Really hokey I know, but it's true.
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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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Failure is never fatal. But failure to change can and might be.
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Our success or failure is not in the hands of our leaders. It is in our hands.
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The hippy movement was a failure.
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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.
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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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Living in a world that is valued only as gain, an ever-expanding world-as-frontier that has no worth of its own, no fullness of its own, you live in danger of losing your own worth to yourself. That's when you begin to listen to the voices from the other side, and to ask questions of failure and the dark.
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Cynicism ... is the trade-mark of failure.
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I'm not an artist, and I want to take risks, and when the possibility of failure occurs, it's because the idea is all exciting or interesting as a high wire act, and sometimes you've got to fall off, just by virtue of the fact that you're constantly trying to evolve and do new things.
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Success is seldom permanent, and failure is seldom fatal. The important thing is to keep trying.
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Positive mental attitude is the right mental attitude in all circumstances. Success attracts more success while failure attracts more failure.
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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.
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The only real failure is the failure to grow from what we go through.
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I try to have no plans the failure of which would greatly annoy me. Half the unhappiness in the world is due to the failure of plans which were never reasonable, and often impossible.
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You learn more from failure than you do from success.
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This idea that failure is not an option: It makes failure invisible, inconceivable and inevitable.
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Success is never ending, failure is never final.
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Drifting, without aim or purpose, is the first cause of failure.
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To a certain extent, I enjoy failure. It's part of the game. There's always room to grow; there's room to improve.
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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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So much of America's tragic and costly failure to care for all its children stems from our tendency to distinguish between our own children and other people's children--as if justice were divisible.
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A woman is only as good as the peace and light she radiates.
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Social media can help or hurt you. People are more into other people's lives than their own. Everyone sees everyone else's success online, and we allow it to magnify our own failure.
