Failure Quotes
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I was very afraid of failure because if you fail at something you love, then you ruin what you love.
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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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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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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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To measure success with material things is failure!
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There's no disgrace in failure, the disgrace is not to try.
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Self-confidence is not hope; it is the self-judgment of your own internal forces in their relation to the world without, which results from the failure of many hopes and the non-realization of many fears.
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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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If we Microsoft Corporation weren't still hiring great people and pushing ahead at full speed, it would be easy to fall behind and become a mediocre company. Fear should guide you, but it should be latent. I have some latent fear. I consider failure on a regular basis.
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No man who has managed to keep out of an office can be called a failure in life.
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What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
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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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Real courage is holding on to a still voice in your head that says, 'I must keep going.' It's that voice that says nothing is a failure if it is not final. That voice that says to you, 'Get out of bed. Keep going. I will not quit.'
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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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The failure and the success both believe in their hearts that they have accurately balanced points of view, the success because he's succeeded, and the failure because he's failed. The successful man tells his son to profit by his father's good fortune, and the failure tells his son to profit by his father's mistakes.
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In all pursuits men complain of failure when they have not attained the measure of success they proposed to themselves.
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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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Honesty is the fastest way to prevent a mistake from turning into a failure.
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I assume everything I do in life is gonna be a failure, and then if it turns up roses, then I'm psyched.
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Don't wallow in failure. Instead, learn from it.
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Failure may be just a step toward your eventual goal.
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Failure comes when we don't get back up and try again.
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Don't be afraid of failure. That's not an easy lesson for teenagers - especially teenage girls - to learn. Our society sends us a lot of messages that imply we're supposed to be ashamed when we fall short. But I think we should be throwing each other failure parties!
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We are not merely tempered and schooled by failure but compelled, in however subtle a fashion, to become something other than we were.
