Failure Quotes
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In Washington, success is just a training course for failure.
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Anyone who says failure is not an option has also ruled out innovation.
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It's not the lack of resources that cause failure, it's the lack of resourcefulness that causes failure.
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The measure of her bitterness was the measure of her failure.
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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 traditional religious right's failure to restore public-school prayer or pass an antiabortion constitutional amendment has likely helped fuel the spread of the more extreme dominionist school.
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There is nothing in the world so easy to explain as failure - it is, after all, what everybody does all the time.
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But success and failure are of no account. They are God's concern, not mine.
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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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The difference between a beautifully made failure and a beautifully made hit is who you've got playing the leads.
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Losing so many patients certainly was difficult, but it didn't make me feel like a failure as a physician, because I had learned that there was so much more to being a physician than curing illness. That's not the most important thing we do. The most important thing we do is enter into the suffering of others.
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While Admiral Neffenger is an impressive man, it is naive and dangerous to pretend installing one director can heal what ails TSA, the Department of Homeland Security needs to admit that it has a crisis of bureaucratic complacency - lacking an overarching vision and coherent measures of success and failure.
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Only failure makes us experts.
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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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Often the doorway to success is entered through the hallway of failure.
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Hard work does not guarantee success, but no work guarantees failure.
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Failure I can live with. Not trying is what I can't handle!
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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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It would be a real failure if agreeing that it [abortion] was not an electoral issue provided an alibi for taking it seriously as a public issue.
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You cannot learn anything from success, you only learn from failure.
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Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.
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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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Failure is a signpost to turn you in another direction.
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Success is better than failure; an attempt is a better attempt, it is better as an attempt, if competent than if incompetent; and it is better to succeed through competence - aptly - than through sheer luck.
