Failure Quotes
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Fear of failure is a far worse condition than failure itself, because it kills off possibilities.
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Failure is really a matter of conceit. People don't work hard because, in their conceit, they imagine they'll succeed without ever making an effort. Most people believe that they'll wake up some day and find themselves rich. Actually, they've got it half right, because eventually they do wake up.
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Failure may be just a step toward your eventual goal.
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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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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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Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.
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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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Anyone who says failure is not an option has also ruled out innovation.
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Every failure is a step to success.
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Even when you have doubts, take that step. Take chances. Mistakes are never a failure—they can be turned into wisdom.
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Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.
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I've spent most of my life trying to think my way to happiness, and my failure to achieve that goal only proves, in my mind, that I am not a good enough thinker. It never occurred to me that the source of my unhappiness is not flawed thinking but thinking itself.
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War is failure of diplomacy.
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Delivering a successful presentation could mean landing a major new contract, better prices for your services, or getting the funding you need. Failure can mean lost customers and a business that never gets off the ground.
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There's no disgrace in failure, the disgrace is not to try.
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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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Because traumatized people often have trouble sensing what is going on in their bodies, they lack a nuanced response to frustration. They either react to stress by becoming “spaced out” or with excessive anger. Whatever their response, they often can’t tell what is upsetting them. This failure to be in touch with their bodies contributes to their well-documented lack of self-protection and high rates of revictimization23 and also to their remarkable difficulties feeling pleasure, sensuality, and having a sense of meaning. People with alexithymia can get better only by learning to recognize the relationship between their physical sensations and their emotions, much as colorblind people can only enter the world of color by learning to distinguish and appreciate shades of gray.
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It is our moral failure that we still tolerate poverty.
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Failure had to change him. When you ask what my role is: From an attorney position, it's having the right systems in place.
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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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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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The measure of her bitterness was the measure of her failure.
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I'm not the guy who's afraid of failure. I like to take risks, take the big shot and all that.
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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.
