Failure Quotes
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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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Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
William Goldman
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Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn; and you are too sensible a man not to learn from this failure.
Charles Dickens
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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.
Simone de Beauvoir
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The greatest failure in life is the failure to participate in life.
Adam Khoo
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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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To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give... You will find that people forget the failures of others very quickly.... My last piece of advice is not to let anyone see your mortification, but whatever you fancy people are saying about you to go on with your ordinary life as though nothing unpleasant had happened to you.
W. Somerset Maugham
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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?
Joanne Rowling
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Feelings of guilt will never motivate anyone to spend more time with God; in actuality, they will discourage you and make you feel like a failure. Guilt has the potential to totally snuff out whatever small flame there presently might be.
Bob Sorge
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Failure is a word that I simply don't accept.
John H. Johnson
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Success gives you a platform for further success - suddenly everybody wants to work with you, and your opportunities and possibilities open up. But at the same time, success is also immensely challenging - it ultimately often creates pride, stubbornness, and sloppiness that beget failure, taking down people and organizations.
Joe Lonsdale
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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.
Peter Morgan
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I always go heavy and I always go to failure. Even when I tell myself I'm gonna go easy, once I get to the gym and start working, I never end up going easy. I hate leaving the floor feeling like I could have done more weight or more reps. I just love working out and going further than I ever did before.
Branch Warren
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What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
Vincent Van Gogh
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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.
Lewis Carroll
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Failure is not a disgrace. It’s just a pitch that you missed, and you’d better get ready for the next one... My son and I are Americans, we prepare for glory by failing until we don’t.
Craig Ferguson
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Failure is inevitable. Success is elusive.
Steven Spielberg
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My problem is that I don't get the same exhiliration from success as I get depression from failure.
Steve Martin
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Pentathlon is not a sign of my failure in swimming. It's a new start for me.
Elodie Clouvel
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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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One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
John W. Gardner
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There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.
Anthony Robbins
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The real test is not whether you avoid failure, because you won't. It's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it. . .
Barack Obama
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I was very afraid of failure because if you fail at something you love, then you ruin what you love.
Kimbal Musk