Failure Quotes
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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.
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Failure is inevitable. If you aren't taking risks, then you won't fail.
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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...
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All work is a process of failure. Every single thing I write, I look at it and go, 'Do better. That's not good enough. Do better.' And so, that keeps me up at night.
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When people have a willpower failure, it's because they haven't anticipated a situation that's going to come along.
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Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.
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The measure of a man’s character is not determined by how he handles his wins, but how he handles his failures.
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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!
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There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.
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People can say whatever they want to about me... and I don't get too affected. But I didn't want them to think I was a failure.
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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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I always go heavy and I always go to failure.
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I always go heavy and I always go to failure. Even when I tell myself I'm gonna go easy, once I get to the gym and start working, I never end up going easy. I hate leaving the floor feeling like I could have done more weight or more reps. I just love working out and going further than I ever did before.
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Whatever may be true of the other modes of warfare, insatyagraha it has been held that the causes for failure are to be sought within.
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Failure is an amazing data point that tells you which direction not to go.
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One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat.
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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.
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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.
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I must hold in balance the sense of the futility of effort and the sense of the necessity to struggle; the conviction of the inevitability of failure and still the determination to 'succeed' - and, more than these, the contradiction between the dead hand of the past and the high intentions of the future.
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An action comitted in anger is an action doomed to 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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This search for perfection - which is a search for divinity - is nothing more than the failure to accept our existence the way it is.
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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.
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I've been doing a few interviews since the loss of the SpaceX Dragon on its way to the Space Station. Each one very quickly questions the viability of what they call commercial space in light of the failure. I tell them space is hard: this is what happens early in a program with new technology.
