Failure Quotes
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What people call success is only preparation for the next failure.
August Strindberg
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I'm a 'what if' person. I have always felt that failure was a completely underrated experience. I have taken blows. I have had high moments. But I don't think the blows have ever hardened me. My enthusiasms are still big.
Kevin Costner
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For most affairs, this eventually becomes the most fundamental of questions, the only one that matters: Do we love each other more than the lives we already have? It is the question that hovers in the background of every secret phone call, flavors every tryst with the head of possibilities of apocalypse and renewal; and it is the answer to that question, or the lack thereof, that so often dooms an affair to failure.
Brady Udall
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You cannot learn anything from success, you only learn from failure.
Jim Dale
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Without will, no conflict: no tragedy among the abulic. Yet the failure of will can be experienced more painfully than a tragic destiny.
Emil Cioran
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Iraq's Sunnis need to be brought back into the fold. They need to feel as though they have a stake in the success of Iraq rather than a stake in its failure.
David Petraeus
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Your attitude is more important than the events happening around you. Artists develop a syndrome taught in art schools. It is a malady titled, 'Artistic Temperament'... rudeness, excuses, slovenliness, laziness, clutter, addictions, non-commercial attitudes, un-professionalism... and a good reason for failure.
Jack White The White Stripes
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I'd rather be a success as a fish than a failure as a fish trying to be a bird.
Eva Le Gallienne
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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
Reggie Jackson
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Just cause you are a failure does not mean you are an artist.
Jordan Peterson
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One is always more vexed at losing a game of any sort by a single hole or ace, than if one has never had a chance of winning it.
William Hazlitt
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Failure in life does not matter; the greatest misfortune is standing still.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
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It's not the lack of resources that cause failure, it's the lack of resourcefulness that causes failure.
Anthony Robbins
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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.
Charles Francis Adams, Sr.
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Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.
Rick Pitino
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Without failure there is no achievement.
John C. Maxwell
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I do not believe in that word Fate. It is the refuge of every self-confessed failure.
Andrew Soutar
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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.
Bernard Iddings Bell
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On occasions when u feel most hopeless, u must take powerful effort. We must persist in face of failure.
Dalai Lama
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We are only human, a condition of perpetual uncertainty and failure.
Craig Davidson
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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.
Rick Tumlinson
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Lamon, that speech won't scour. It is a flat failure and the people are disappointed.
Abraham Lincoln
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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.
Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
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Where Example keeps pace with Authority, Power hardly fails to be obey'd.
William Penn