Failure Quotes
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The thing about failure is that you never know how close you were to success.
 Brian Simo
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I lived with this tremendous fear of failure because my father was a playwright and a director, and I think he did a couple of things as a child as an actor as well, and he... he failed, basically.
 Ben Affleck
					 
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Learn from failure. If you are an entrepreneur and your first venture wasn’t a success, welcome to the club!
 Richard Branson
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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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In all forms of leadership, whether you are a coach, a CEO, or a parent, there are four words that, when said, can bring out the best in your team, your employees, and your family. I BELIEVE IN YOU. Those four words can mean the difference between a fear of failure and the courage to try.
 Mike Krzyzewski
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Where Example keeps pace with Authority, Power hardly fails to be obey'd.
 William Penn
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It's okay to fail; it's not okay to quit.
 Chris Gardner
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I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it
 Reggie Jackson
					 
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Sometimes failure isn't an opportunity in disguise, it's just you.
 Douglas Coupland
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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.
 Noah Weinberg
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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.
 William James
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Don't be afraid of failure. That's not an easy lesson for teenagers - especially teenage girls - to learn. Our society sends us a lot of messages that imply we're supposed to be ashamed when we fall short. But I think we should be throwing each other failure parties!
 Reshma Saujani
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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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Be calm and strong and patient. Meet failure and disappointment with courage. Rise superior to the trials of life, and never give in to hopelessness or despair. In danger, in adversity, cling to your principles and ideals. Aequanimitas!
 William Osler
					 
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If one's man's trash is another man's treasure, then one industry's potential failure is another's opportunity.
 Adam Lashinsky
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No one who lives in the sunlight of gratitude that things aren't worse makes a failure of his or her life.
 Albert Camus
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Without failure there is no achievement.
 John C. Maxwell
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Failure is an amazing data point that tells you which direction not to go.
 Payal Kadakia
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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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Failure is inevitable. If you aren't taking risks, then you won't fail.
 Cara Santana
					 
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Iraq's Sunnis need to be brought back into the fold. They need to feel as though they have a stake in the success of Iraq rather than a stake in its failure.
 David Petraeus
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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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We have scarcely gotten home ... when our children's sneezes greet us, skinned knees bleed after waiting all day to do so. There is the bellyache and the burned-out basement bulb, the stalled car and the incontinent cat. The windows frost, the toilets sweat, the body of our spouse is one cold shoulder and the darkness of our bedroom is soon full of the fallen shadows of our failures.
 William H. Gass
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I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.
 Charles Dickens