Failure Quotes
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One of the things my service in Iraq did give me was this freedom from fear of failure or any kind of expectations that I had to take a standard path.
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In Washington, success is just a training course for failure.
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Honesty is the fastest way to prevent a mistake from turning into a failure.
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FAILURE IS INEVITABLE. I will fail. We all will. And having failed, and gotten back up, and failed again, taught me that I can survive failure. This is a downfall in most modern stories: the hero always wins. Because while this story is inspiring, it’s also false. In reality, not everyone wins. It’s 100% true that no one wills all the time, and we expect that—every hero must fall at least once. But it’s also 100% true that some people never win at all, and that’s the thing we try so hard to ignore behind the pretty stories. I could spend the rest of my life trying to be a prima ballerina, and it would not happen. I would fail at that for the rest of my life. FAILURE TEACHES US WHO WE ARE. Because even though I know I would fail forever at being a prima ballerina, I also know that I am not someone who should be a prima ballerina. It’s not who I am, it’s not what I want. Of course I would fail at it.
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Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter.
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Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.
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I plan on going so deep into the desert, that any failure of my equipment could cost me my life.
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You always pass failure on the way to success.
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There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.
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It is our moral failure that we still tolerate poverty.
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Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to 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.
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I do think the biggest problem newspapers have is loss of trust, and I feel that's a result of failure to speak truth to power.
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Assad's failure to meet deadline on destroying chemical weapons is just the latest example of Obama's failed Syria policy.
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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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Failure is a great teacher, and I think when you make mistakes and you recover from them and you treat them as valuable learning experiences, then you’ve got something to share.
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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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Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.
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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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We are able to learn from a failure, but perhaps not much from a success!
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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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Outsiders think of Silicon Valley as a success story, but in truth, it is a graveyard. Failure.. is Silicon Valley's greatest strength. Every failed product or enterprise is a lesson stored in the collective memory of the country. We not only don't stigmatize failure, sometime we even admire it. Venture Capitalists actually like to see a little failure in the resumes of entrepreneurs.
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To think of failure is to fail.
