Failure Quotes
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I fear that our true motivation is about oil and our own flailing economy; about the failure to destroy Al Qaeda and about revenge.
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Every failure, every adversity, every heartache may be a blessing in disguise providing it softens the animal portion of our nature.
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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.
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The risk of failure is part of the fun of what I do.
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You really need to approach each book as if you have been a failure. . . . If you start to believe your flap-copy, you're finished as a writer.
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My rejection at the Salon brought an end to my hesitation [to settle in Paris] since after this failure I can no longer claim to cope... alas, that fatal rejection has virtually taken the bread out of my mouth.
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Never let failure discourage you. Every time you get to the base of a mountain (literal or metaphorical), you're presented with a new opportunity to challenge yourself, to push your limits beyond what you thought possible, to learn from climbers on the trail ahead of you, and to take in some amazing views. Your performance on the mountain you climbed last week or last month or last year doesn't matter - because it's all about what you are doing right now.
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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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The greatest failure is the failure to try.
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What we should really fear is not failure but the heart that is no longer brave enough to take risks and embrace challenges
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Pentathlon is not a sign of my failure in swimming. It's a new start for me.
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Until opportunity is as free from sex discrimination as the right to vote finally came to be, no man has any right to criticize women for failure to measure up to men.
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If you're so afraid of failure, you will never succeed. You have to take chances.
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If you have no major purpose, you are drifting toward certain failure.
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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 comes when we don't get back up and try again.
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Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter.
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Success is never ending, failure is never final.
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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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Failure is but the longer road to triumph.
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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.
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People often avoid making decisions out of fear of making a mistake. Actually the failure to make decisions is one of life's biggest mistakes.
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I think the two most difficult things to deal with in life are failure and success...
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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.
