Failure Quotes
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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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I felt like a failure for so long because I wasn't able to access myself in the way I knew I would have if I was going to make music that mattered. I knew I was going to have to learn how to be honest.
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Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature.
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I've always had a love of cards, ever since I was a little kid. I think poker, as a system, describes the chaos of the world. Our sudden reversals, our freak streaks of fortune. The belief that the next hand can save you, and the inevitable failure of the next hand to save you. I think that describes my world view pretty well.
Colson Whitehead -
My problem is that I don't get the same exhiliration from success as I get depression from failure.
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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.
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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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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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I think perhaps Mr. Hoadley is experiencing remorse for his failure to become involved.
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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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Failure is our most important product.
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Success is as dangerous as failure. Hope is as hollow as fear.
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As long as you are trying your very best, there can be no question of failure.
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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.
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It is only through failure and through experiment that we learn and grow.
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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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The greatest failure in life is the failure to participate in life.
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One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
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The worst time was 1983. Love and life and everything went wrong. I reached absolute rock bottom. I saw the Minotaur at the bottom of the abyss. I learnt of the harshness of the world and its impartiality to human failure.
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Of course, Third World leaders love you. By ascribing third world ills to First World sins, you absolve them of blame for their countries' failure to advance.
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There's no question that Kennedy was an utter failure as a passer of laws during his proverbial thousand days.
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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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Failure isn't failure unless you just stop with that.
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Take care to make things turn out well. Some people scruple more over pointing things in the right direction than over successfully reaching their goals. The disgrace of failure outweighs the diligence they showed. A winner is never asked for explanations.
