Failure Quotes
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Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
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Failure's not a bad thing. It builds character. It makes you stronger.
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Honesty is the fastest way to prevent a mistake from turning into a failure.
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Failure is a signpost to turn you in another direction.
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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.
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On occasions when u feel most hopeless, u must take powerful effort. We must persist in face of failure.
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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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A man is great not because he hasn't failed; a man is great because failure hasn't stopped him.
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Failure is but the longer road to triumph.
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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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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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Never Say I Failed 99 Times, Say I Discovered 99 Ways Which Causes Failure!
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There's no question that Kennedy was an utter failure as a passer of laws during his proverbial thousand days.
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What makes authentic disciples is not visions, ecstasies, biblical mastery of chapter and verse, or spectacular success in the ministry, but a capacity for faithfulness. Buffeted by the fickle winds of failure, battered by their own unruly emotions, and bruised by rejection and ridicule, authentic disciples may have stumbled and frequently fallen, endured lapses and relapses, gotten handcuffed to the fleshpots and wandered into a far county. Yet, they kept coming back to Jesus.
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To develop working ideas efficiently, I try to fail as fast as I can.
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Every failure is a step to success.
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Failure in life does not matter; the greatest misfortune is standing still.
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Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.
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My problem is that I don't get the same exhiliration from success as I get depression from failure.
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The Bush Administration's failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world.
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Failure is not an option!
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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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Failure seems to be regarded as the one unpardonable crime, success as the all-redeeming virtue, the acquisition of wealth as the single worthy aim of life. Ten years ago such revelations as these of the Erie Railway would have sent a shudder through the community, and would have placed a stigma on every man who had had to do them. Now they merely incite others to surpass by yet bolder outrages and more corrupt combinations.
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Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.
