Failure Quotes
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The most consistently successful commanders, when faced by an enemy in a position that was strong naturally or materially, have hardly ever tackled it in a direct way. And when, under pressure of circumstances, they have risked a direct attack, the result has commonly been to blot their record with a failure.
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In Torch Song, I did that character almost non-stop from 1978 until I made the movie in 1987. Then I had some failure, which also colors how you react to doing other things.
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Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.
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Incorrect assumptions lie at the root of every failure. Have the courage to test your assumptions.
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Failure is an enigma. You worry about it, and it teaches you something.
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I was very afraid of failure because if you fail at something you love, then you ruin what you love.
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People who live great stories know failure isn’t a judgment, it’s an education.
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There is no failure except in no longer trying.
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There are three unfilial acts: the greatest of these is the failure to produce sons.
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Since so many romantic comedies vary little in their storyline, the success or failure of such movies depends largely on whether we believe in the relationship of the protagonists.
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It is our failure to become our perceived ideal that ultimately defines us and makes us unique.
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That which chiefly causes the failure of a dinner-party, is the running short--not of meat, nor yet of drink, but of conversation.
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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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My first failure was to be born a child not wanted by his father or mother, as they parted shortly after I was born.
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It's the ability to resist failure, in many ways, or use failure that often leads to the greatest success, isn't it?
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Failure in and of itself is not a bad thing. But failing to learn from it is inexcusable.
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Although I didn't write myself off as a complete failure, all illusion and romance was gone. I was no longer able to inflate myself; I had disappointed my own expectations and was genuinely worried about dying in the streets.
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When you can look at failure and say, 'What is the worst case scenario,' it's not as bad as it seems.
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Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.
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Remember when your plans fail, that temporary defeat is not permanent failure.
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Failure is an amazing data point that tells you which direction not to go.
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Failure is inevitable. Success is elusive.
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A person of intellect without energy added to it, is a failure.
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Society turns away from the aged worker as though he belonged to another species. That is why the whole question is buried in a conspiracy of silence. Old age exposes the failure of our entire civilization.
