Failure Quotes
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With the ambitious, the failure of one expedient is the suggestion of another; but with the irresolute, defeat usually occasions abandonment of purpose.
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Every woman knows that, regardless of all her other achievements, she is a failure if she is not beautiful.
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I do not believe in that word Fate. It is the refuge of every self-confessed failure.
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The right shot at the right moment does not come because you do not let go of yourself. You do not wait for fulfilment, but brace yourself for failure.
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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.
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Pessimism is an excuse for not trying and a guarantee to a personal failure.
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Recovering from failure is often easier than building from success.
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There's a sense that the drug war has proven its failure. Five or six years ago, people would say, "Well, we haven't really tried it." It's hard to say that with credibility any more. People tend to get bored with old ideas. and the war on drugs is becoming an old idea. There's a kind of natural pendulum or circularity, where people begin to think that change is inevitable. And that's going to happen in the drug area.
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Failure is the seed of success
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Fear too often spells failure.
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The present called for justice, not for nostalgia over another extravagant failure on the part of blind and incompetent white men.
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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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I think the greatest taboos in America are faith and failure.
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There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.
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The desire to succeed has a lot less compulsion than the fear of failure.
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Anyone who says failure is not an option has also ruled out innovation.
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The measure of her bitterness was the measure of her failure.
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I'm troubled by what I see as a sort of rooting for Trump's failure, because that is rooting for our own failure.
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Hard work does not guarantee success, but no work guarantees failure.
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In my opinion, the key internal element in Rome’s success or failure was the economic well-being of its taxpayers. This was because the empire relied for its security on a professional army, which in turn relied on adequate funding.
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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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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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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
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In truth, in the fairy-tale version of bailing out Lehman, the next domino, A.I.G., would have fallen even harder. If the politics of bailing out Lehman were bad, the politics of bailing out A.I.G. would have been worse. And the systemic risk that a failure of A.I.G. posed was orders of magnitude greater than Lehman's collapse.
