Failure Quotes
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I define anxiety as experiencing failure in advance.
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A good education is not so much one which prepares a man to succeed in the world, as one which enables him to sustain a failure.
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The present called for justice, not for nostalgia over another extravagant failure on the part of blind and incompetent white men.
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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
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The thing about failure is that you never know how close you were to success.
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Success or failure in minority education means success or failure for the U.S.
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Don't wallow in failure. Instead, learn from it.
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Theres no amount of money that makes you feel better when people think of you as a joke or a hack or a failure or ugly or stupid or morally empty.
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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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On occasions when u feel most hopeless, u must take powerful effort. We must persist in face of failure.
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Fear of failure is the reason most often cited to explain why so many aspiring writers never realize their dreams. But I think it’s that same fear of failure that absolutely invigorates those who do push through-that is, the fear of not being heard.
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Lamon, that speech won't scour. It is a flat failure and the people are disappointed.
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As the great naturalist Charles Darwin saw clearly, individual and collective interests often coincide, as in the invisible hand narrative. But he also saw that in many other cases, interests at the two levels are squarely in conflict, and that in those cases, individual interests generally trump. That simple observation suggests that market failure is often the result not of insufficient competition (the traditional charge from social critics on the Left), but of the very logic of competition itself.
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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 think, with Hank Paulson, the concept of a bailout was anathema to him from day one. He was a Republican; he's a free marketeer. He believes in capitalism, and part of capitalism is believing in failure. And so the idea of bailing out an institution, I think, went against every part of him.
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Failure in life does not matter; the greatest misfortune is standing still.
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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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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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Where Example keeps pace with Authority, Power hardly fails to be obey'd.
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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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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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Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times, you don't want to set him down as a failure till he's dead or loses his courage.
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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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The only thing that will guarantee your failure is quitting. Those who win in this life are not those who never fail. Winners are those who never quit.
