Failure Quotes
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Losing so many patients certainly was difficult, but it didn't make me feel like a failure as a physician, because I had learned that there was so much more to being a physician than curing illness. That's not the most important thing we do. The most important thing we do is enter into the suffering of others.
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You can never become a great man or woman until you have overcome anxiety, worry, and fear. It is impossible for an anxious person, a worried one, or a fearful one to perceive truth; all things are distorted and thrown out of their proper relations by such mental states, and those who are in them cannot read the thoughts of God.
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Success is failure inside out.
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Every individual suffers from the fear of failure, but you can change your destiny only when you overcome it.
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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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This idea that failure is not an option: It makes failure invisible, inconceivable and inevitable.
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Failure is never fatal. But failure to change can and might be.
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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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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.
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I do not believe in that word Fate. It is the refuge of every self-confessed failure.
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An action comitted in anger is an action doomed to failure.
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While we cannot guarantee that we shall one day be first, we can guarantee that any failure to make this effort will make us last.
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If Steinitz continually took pains to discover combinations, the success or failure of his diligent search could not be explained by him as due to chance. Hence, he concluded that some characteristic, a quality of the given position, must exist that would indicate the success or the failure of the search before it was actually undertaken.
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Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive.
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A failure teaches you that something can't be done-that way.
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Sometimes failure isn't an opportunity in disguise, it's just you.
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Try not to say, 'I'm a failure.' Instead, ask, 'What can I do better? What did I do wrong?' Then re-approach.
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Man's worst tragedy in life is his failure to reach his greatest potential.
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When amusement is necessary to get people to listen to the gospel there will be failure. This is not the method of Christ. To form an organization and provide all kinds of entertainment for young people, in order that they may come to the Bible classes, is to be foredoomed to failure.
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I think the two most difficult things to deal with in life are failure and success...
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The risk of failure is part of the fun of what I do.
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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.
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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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Often the doorway to success is entered through the hallway of failure.
