Failure Quotes
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The search for freedom through sex is doomed to failure.
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Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.
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I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.
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The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
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While the public school rewards failure by throwing more government money at failing school systems, the voucher system does the opposite.
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You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.
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I understand the harsh feelings and sentiments from my opponents and their supporters because I myself have been defeated twice in my political life in the past and I understand very well it is hard to accept your own failure.
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Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.
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Failure is success in progress.
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Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
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The matriarchal society is thus the decadent and broken. The strongly matriarchal character of Negro life is due to the moral failure of Negro men, their failure to be responsible, to support the family, or to provide authority. The same is true of American Indian tribes which are also matriarchal today.
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Fear of failure, it's the greatest motivational tool. It drives me and drives me and drives me.
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Our first problem is that our attitude towards sin is more self-centred than God-centred. We are more concerned about our own "Victory" over sin than we are about the fact that our sin grieve the heart of God. We cannot tolerate failure in our struggle with sin chiefly because we are success oriented, not because we know it is offensive to God.
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An investment said to have an 80% chance of success sounds far more attractive than one with a 20% chance of failure. The mind can't easily recognize that they are the same.
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Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
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All too many churchmen view the undisciplined & amoral products of statist education as evidences of the failure of these schools. On the contrary, they are evidences of their success.
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When that ineffable compound of depression, sadness (these two are not the same), anxiety, self-hatred, sense of failure and fear for the future begins to steal over you, start telling yourself that what you have is a hangover. You are not sickening for anything, you have not suffered a minor brain lesion, you are not all that bad at your job, your family and friends are not leagued in a conspiracy of barely maintained silence about what a s**t you are, you have not come at last to see life as it really is and there is no use crying over spilt milk.
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Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period.
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I don't know many people, if any, who have had some straight line toward success. I mean, they start here, they work hard, they've got what it takes, and they just go straight to the top over some number of years. Most people get a little failure.
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I think you have to try and fail, because failure gets you closer to what you're good at.
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I don't see divorce as a failure. I see it as the end to a story. In a story, everything has an end and a beginning.
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I've never been a jealous person, and I've never felt built up by someone else's failure - that's a cheap thrill.
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There is always the fear of failure, and if you struggle, you become nervous, and that's when the underdogs have an opportunity to create a surprise.
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Being a goalkeeper gives you quite a unique perspective on things. You are part of a team yet somehow separate; there are no grey areas, with success or failure being measured in real time; and you have a physical job which you can only do well by paying attention to your mental well-being. A great goalkeeper has to have the keys to a great mindset. To be able to work well in the box, I believe you have to be able to think outside the box.
