Failure Quotes
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Pride is ugly. It says 'If you succeed I am a failure.'
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I chose life over death for myself and my friends... I believe it is in our nature to explore, to reach out into the unknown. The only true failure would be not to explore at all.
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Failure may be just a step toward your eventual goal.
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I knew, as everyone knows, that the easiest way to attract a crowd is to let it be known that at a given time and a given place some one is going to attempt something that in the event of failure will mean sudden death. That's what attracts us to the man who paints the flagstaff on the tall building, or to the 'human fly' who scales the walls of the same building.
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Honesty is the fastest way to prevent a mistake from turning into a failure.
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Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.
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I define anxiety as experiencing failure in advance.
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In failure, children learn how to struggle with adversity and how to confront fear. By reflecting on failure, children begin to see how to correct themselves and then try again with better results.
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I always go heavy and I always go to failure. Even when I tell myself I'm gonna go easy, once I get to the gym and start working, I never end up going easy. I hate leaving the floor feeling like I could have done more weight or more reps. I just love working out and going further than I ever did before.
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To develop working ideas efficiently, I try to fail as fast as I can.
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This day’s failure wasn’t at all about lacking brains; it was about will. It was about ownership. It was about not having much experience or interest in seeing tasks through to completion.
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The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.
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There is an explanation to these companies’ failure to implement Lean; an explanation that is apparent to any objective observer of a company like Hitachi Tool Engineering. The failure is due to the fundamental difference in the production environments. When Taiichi Ohno developed TPS, he didn’t do it in the abstract; he developed it for his company. It is no wonder that the powerful application that Ohno developed might not work in fundamentally different production environments.
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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.
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The signal from Schroeder and Chirac to Turkey, that they can be full members, has contributed to the failure of the constitutional treaty.
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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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Try not to say, 'I'm a failure.' Instead, ask, 'What can I do better? What did I do wrong?' Then re-approach.
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Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.
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Many now veer away from the time-honored use of the term Father as applied to the Christian God ... This difficulty rests mainly, I believe, on failure to distinguish between a symbol and a definition.
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I don’t believe in failure; I believe there are setbacks that are put into our path to teach us something and move us in a different direction.
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Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.
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An action comitted in anger is an action doomed to failure.
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Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.
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The measure of a man’s character is not determined by how he handles his wins, but how he handles his failures.
