Failure Quotes
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The failure of credit markets is one of the major reasons for underdevelopment.
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We believe that we can find the end, and that a painting can be finished. The Abstract Expressionists always felt the painting's being finished was very problematical. We'd more readily say that our paintings were finished and say, well, it's either a failure or it's not, instead of saying, well, maybe it's not really finished.
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I feel at home in intimate concert halls. I can take risks and I'm immediately forgiven if the risk is a failure because it's such a cozy atmosphere. It opens up the opportunity for conversation and for interacting with the crowd.
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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.
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A man is great not because he hasn't failed; a man is great because failure hasn't stopped him.
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Success is as dangerous as failure. Hope is as hollow as fear.
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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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Pentathlon is not a sign of my failure in swimming. It's a new start for me.
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Formal declarations of mistrust, pre-nups are emotionally unfortunate. They overtly plan for failure, and thus involve a jarring cognitive dissonance.
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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. . .
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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.
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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.
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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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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.
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It is only through failure and through experiment that we learn and grow.
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There is no such thing as 'safe' Socialism. If it's safe, it's not Socialism. And if it's Socialism, it's not safe. The signposts of Socialism point downhill to less freedom, less prosperity, downhill to more muddle, more failure. If we follow them to their destination, they will lead this nation into bankruptcy.
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There is no failure except in no longer trying.
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Failure is inevitable. Success is elusive.
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I fear that our true motivation is about oil and our own flailing economy; about the failure to destroy Al Qaeda and about revenge.
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I've been through a lot in my career, and the failure that I've gone through makes me really appreciate the moments of success much more.
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Failure is our most important product.
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Not failure, but low aim, is crime.
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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.
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What we should really fear is not failure but the heart that is no longer brave enough to take risks and embrace challenges
