Failure Quotes
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Lamon, that speech won't scour. It is a flat failure and the people are disappointed.
Abraham Lincoln
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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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To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it.
William Hazlitt
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Failure isn't failure unless you just stop with that.
Miesha Tate
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The younger me was motivated by a need to please others, by the pressure to climb the corporate ladder and make money, and by a fear of failure - all of which became more and more intense as I navigated the competitive landscape.
Bonnie Hammer
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It's not a failure if a marriage or partnership ends after a certain number of years. I think, in general, we expect too much of partners. We can't fulfil a person's every single need and, after ten years or so, many relationships wear out. If we were more philosophical about it, we wouldn't try to blame the other person or be bitter.
Deborah Moggach
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War isn't civilized. War is failure. It's the ultimate result of a breakdown in public policy, and soldiers are the machines that handle that breakdown. In warfare, you're taught to do whatever you have to, to stay alive.
Jesse Ventura
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The greatest failure is the failure to try.
William Arthur Ward
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Shake off your blunders. How will you know your limits without an occasional failure? Never quit. Your turn will come.
Og Mandino
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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.
Mariella Frostrup
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Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, medication, depression, neurosis and suicide. With failure comes failure.
Joseph Heller
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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.
Baltasar Gracian
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Failure in and of itself is not a bad thing. But failing to learn from it is inexcusable.
Alison Levine
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Do nothing rashly; want of circumspection is the chief cause of failure and disaster. Fortune, wise lover of the wise, selects him for her lord who ere he acts reflects.
J_K_Bharavi
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In the words of Madame Leota in the film The Haunted Mansion, 'You try, you fail, you try, you fail, but the only true failure is when you stop trying
Carrie Fletcher
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War remains the decisive human failure.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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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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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
