Failure Quotes
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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.
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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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It's not a failure if a marriage or partnership ends after a certain number of years. I think, in general, we expect too much of partners. We can't fulfil a person's every single need and, after ten years or so, many relationships wear out. If we were more philosophical about it, we wouldn't try to blame the other person or be bitter.
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It's not the lack of resources that cause failure, it's the lack of resourcefulness that causes failure.
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You cannot learn anything from success, you only learn from failure.
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Falling down is not a failure. Failure comes when you stay where you have fallen.
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Failure comes when we don't get back up and try again.
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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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Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.
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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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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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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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I'd rather be a success as a fish than a failure as a fish trying to be a bird.
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Every man who is not for us in this prolonged struggle for liberty is responsible for the present degradation of the mothers of the race. It is pitiful to see how few men ever have made our cause their own, but while leaving us to fight our battle alone, they have been unsparing in their criticism of every failure. Of all the battles for liberty in the long past, woman only has been left to fight her own, without help and with all the powers of earth and heaven, human and divine, arrayed against her.
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Failure to pass TPP sends a big signal. The United States is backing off, backing away. That will create a huge void here.
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While Admiral Neffenger is an impressive man, it is naive and dangerous to pretend installing one director can heal what ails TSA, the Department of Homeland Security needs to admit that it has a crisis of bureaucratic complacency - lacking an overarching vision and coherent measures of success and failure.
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Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.
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Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.
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War is failure of diplomacy.
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Failure is not an option!
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Without failure there is no achievement.
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The Fed’s policies have been an unqualified success for financiers and an abject failure for the bottom 99.5% who have to work for a living.
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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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Success is the process of not accepting failure.
