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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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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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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Failure is an amazing data point that tells you which direction not to go.
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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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Failure is inevitable. Success is elusive.
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Cheerfully fessing up to our failures turns crazy mind off, humility and compassion on. I learned this in a karate dojo that had a strange tradition. Everyone there loved recounting failure stories, and after an evening of smacking one another, we'd sit and have a beer while the students swapped tales of martial arts disaster.
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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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Remember when your plans fail, that temporary defeat is not permanent failure.
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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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Incorrect assumptions lie at the root of every failure. Have the courage to test your assumptions.
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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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Fear too often spells 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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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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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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Most people don't really do too many things because they're afraid they'll fail. There are people failing all the time, all around you. And nobody is going to notice your failure. Your failure is not going to be so spectacular that people write news stories about it. Your failure will be boring.
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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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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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There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.
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It's only when you risk failure that you discover things. When you play it safe, you're not expressing the utmost of your human experience.
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Success is as dangerous as failure. Hope is as hollow as fear.
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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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The greatest failure in life is the failure to participate in life.
