Failure Quotes
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Bacon is so good by itself that to put it in any other food is an admission of failure. You're basically saying, 'I can't make this other food taste good, so I'll throw in bacon.'
Penn Jillette -
War remains the decisive human failure.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.
Michael Korda -
The only failure is not to try.
George Clooney -
But success and failure are of no account. They are God's concern, not mine.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I never look at failing as an option anyhow. I believe thinking you could fail is already shooting yourself in the foot and setting yourself up for failure.
Ashley Purdy -
Every individual suffers from the fear of failure, but you can change your destiny only when you overcome it.
Anupam Kher -
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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The answers to these questions will determine your success or failure. 1) Can people trust me to do what's right? 2) Am I committed to doing my best? 3) Do I care about other people and show it? If the answers to these questions are yes, there is no way you can fail.
Lou Holtz -
Sweatpants are a sign of defeat. You lost control of your life so you bought some sweatpants.
Karl Lagerfeld -
I'm not the guy who's afraid of failure. I like to take risks, take the big shot and all that.
Stephen Curry -
Remember He is the artist and you are only the picture. You can't see it. So quietly submit to be painted---i.e., keep fulfilling all the obvious duties of your station (you really know quite well enough what they are!), asking forgiveness for each failure and then leaving it alone.You are in the right way. Walk---don't keep on looking at it.
C. S. Lewis -
Unwillingness to risk failure is always there, but it gets harder when you feel you have more to lose.
Demi Moore -
Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.
George Eliot
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The failure of Christianity in the areas west from Sicily was even greater, and was increased by the spread of Arab outlooks and influence to that area, and especially to Spain.
Carroll Quigley -
I was afraid of being a failure, of not having the best time or of being chicken. But every year I get older I think, What was I fearing last year?' You forget. And then you move on.
Sandra Bullock -
Failure had to change him. When you ask what my role is: From an attorney position, it's having the right systems in place.
Aaron Cohen -
Take the happiest man, the one most envied by the world, and in nine cases out of ten his inmost consciousness is one of failure. Either his ideals in the line of his achievements are pitched far higher than the achievements themselves, or else he has secret ideals of which the world knows nothing, and in regard to which he inwardly knows himself to be found wanting.
William James -
It's not the lack of resources that cause failure, it's the lack of resourcefulness that causes failure.
Anthony Robbins -
Failure is not fun. It can be awful. But living so cautiously that you never fail is worse.
Joanne Rowling
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To a certain extent, I enjoy failure. It's part of the game. There's always room to grow; there's room to improve.
Aaron Judge -
Something is wanting, and something must be done, or we shall be involved in all the horror of failure, and civil war without a prospect of its termination.
Henry Knox -
I don't know if it's a failure of imagination on my part, but I'm not going to be writing about Paris in the 1800s. I feel like it would come off as just ludicrously uninformed, even if I did a lot of research.
Maria Semple -
I like Diaspora because it's audacious, it's driven by passion, and it's very, very hard to do. After all, who in their right mind would set as a goal taking on Facebook? That's sort of like deciding to build a better search engine - very expensive, with a high likelihood of failure.
John Battelle