Failure Quotes
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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.
Wilma Rudolph
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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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You cannot learn anything from success, you only learn from failure.
Jim Dale
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There's a silly notion that failure's not an option at NASA. Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.
Elon Musk
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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
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We are more afraid of excellence than of failure.
Marianne Williamson
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It's okay to fail; it's not okay to quit.
Chris Gardner
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Back in 2014, when no one else was planning how to win the referendum, @DouglasCarswell talked tactics at the @Tate. He said: 'We can win in one of two circumstances: a visible failure of the renegotiation, or one of the two main party leaders being neutral.' In the event, we got both. Thanks @jeremycorbyn.
Daniel Hannan
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The only risk of failure is promotion.
Scott Adams
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Transforming education is not easy but the price of failure is more than we can afford, while the benefits of success are more than we can imagine.
Ken Robinson
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The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.
Herodotus
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To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it.
William Hazlitt
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Working at Perfekt, Got me down on my knees. Success to failure, Just a matter of degrees. Working at Perfekt, Got me down on my knees...
Geddy Lee Weinrib Rush
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Without failure there is no achievement.
John C. Maxwell
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Failure is not fun. It can be awful. But living so cautiously that you never fail is worse.
Joanne Rowling
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Everybody has barriers and obstacles. If you look at them as containing fences that don't allow you to advance, then you're going to be a failure. If you look at them as hurdles that strengthen you each time you go over one, then you're going to be a success.
Benjamin Carson
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It's not the lack of resources that cause failure, it's the lack of resourcefulness that causes failure.
Anthony Robbins
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Sloth is the failure to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done - like the kamikaze pilot who flew seventeen missions.
John Ortberg
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Without will, no conflict: no tragedy among the abulic. Yet the failure of will can be experienced more painfully than a tragic destiny.
Emil Cioran
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What people call success is only preparation for the next failure.
August Strindberg
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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 traditional religious right's failure to restore public-school prayer or pass an antiabortion constitutional amendment has likely helped fuel the spread of the more extreme dominionist school.
Jon Meacham
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The greatest failure in life is the failure to participate in life.
Adam Khoo
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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