Failure Quotes
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Yesterday people thought it would be a failure. Today they can see that it's a great success.
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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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A situation where a solution to a stakeholder problem is imposed by a government agency or the courts must be seen as a managerial failure.
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To develop working ideas efficiently, I try to fail as fast as I can.
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In my opinion, the key internal element in Rome’s success or failure was the economic well-being of its taxpayers. This was because the empire relied for its security on a professional army, which in turn relied on adequate funding.
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Failure is but the longer road to triumph.
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Failure comes when we don't get back up and try again.
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In a way, I think of the press as my colleagues. I don't want to throw hand grenades at people who do something that's pretty similar to what I do. But at the same time, we all need to take ourselves seriously and be responsible as professionals. And there was a collective failure in the treatment of Christopher Jefferies.
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You learn more from failure than you do from success.
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Nine Inch Nails was an experiment with me in discipline. I realized when I was 23 that I had never really tried anything. Schoolwork came easy to me. I learned to play piano effortlessly. I was coasting. I realized that I was afraid to really, really try something, 100 percent, because I had never reached true failure.
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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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I think that a lot of the most talented and driven people, they're not super deterred by failure. So if you put out a really big challenge, I think they get reality excited by that - they say, 'Hey, why not, let's go give it a shot, and if we fall short on that, at least we took a shot at doing something really important and meaningful.'
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What strikes me is that there's a very fine line between success and failure. Just one ingredient can make the difference.
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If something works, you shouldn't do it again. We want to do something that is new, original - something where there's a good chance of failure.
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Self-confidence is not hope; it is the self-judgment of your own internal forces in their relation to the world without, which results from the failure of many hopes and the non-realization of many fears.
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When you're a failure in Hollywood, that's like starving to death outside a banquet hall, with smells of filet mignon driving you crazy.
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It's only when you risk failure that you discover things. When you play it safe, you're not expressing the utmost of your human experience.
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Incorrect assumptions lie at the root of every failure. Have the courage to test your assumptions.
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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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No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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War remains the decisive human failure.
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If you're so afraid of failure, you will never succeed. You have to take chances.
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A big part of my job is to remember failure, and reboot failure, when the timing is right.
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The spiritual meaning of every situation [is] not what happens to us, but what we do with what happens to us and who we decide to become because of what happens to us. The only real failure is the failure to grow from what we go through.
