Failure Quotes
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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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Although I didn't write myself off as a complete failure, all illusion and romance was gone. I was no longer able to inflate myself; I had disappointed my own expectations and was genuinely worried about dying in the streets.
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Failure is inherent in the game. So if you don't respond well to adversity, you're probably not going to have a long career.
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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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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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We are only human, a condition of perpetual uncertainty and failure.
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That which chiefly causes the failure of a dinner-party, is the running short--not of meat, nor yet of drink, but of conversation.
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I love how intimate I've become with failure.
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If something's important enough, you should try. Even if you - the probable outcome is failure.
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Every failure is a step to success.
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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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What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
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The greatest failure is the failure to try.
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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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A woman is only as good as the peace and light she radiates.
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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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Each time I hit a low point I learn the most. Failure is the best university.
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Failure is inevitable. If you aren't taking risks, then you won't fail.
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All of us have failed to match our dream of perfection. I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible. If I could write all my work again, I'm convinced I could do it better. This is the healthiest condition for an artist. That's why he keeps working, trying again: he believes each time that this time he will do it, bring it off. Of course he won't.
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Success is failure inside out.
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The difference between a score in the 90s and a century is often reflected as the difference between failure and success. It may be illogical, but in cricket, a century has its own magic.
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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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Everybody has barriers and obstacles. If you look at them as containing fences that don't allow you to advance, then you're going to be a failure. If you look at them as hurdles that strengthen you each time you go over one, then you're going to be a success.
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No one who lives in the sunlight of gratitude that things aren't worse makes a failure of his or her life.
