Failure Quotes
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As the great naturalist Charles Darwin saw clearly, individual and collective interests often coincide, as in the invisible hand narrative. But he also saw that in many other cases, interests at the two levels are squarely in conflict, and that in those cases, individual interests generally trump. That simple observation suggests that market failure is often the result not of insufficient competition (the traditional charge from social critics on the Left), but of the very logic of competition itself.
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Failure is the seed of success
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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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Success is the process of not accepting failure.
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I'd rather be a success as a fish than a failure as a fish trying to be a bird.
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Failure is just another way to learn how to do something right.
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The habit of giving up when the present task is half finished and try something else is one of the chief causes of failure.
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Hard work does not guarantee success, but no work guarantees failure.
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Failure is nothing but success trying to be born in a bigger way. Most seeming failures are just installments toward victory!
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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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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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The desire to succeed has a lot less compulsion than the fear of failure.
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Only failure makes us experts.
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I've really thought a lot about why other companies fail or succeed. I had to be a student of failure and find out why things went off the rails. I did that at a fairly deep level, and it's still something I do.
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We are only human, a condition of perpetual uncertainty and failure.
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Faithfulness requires the courage to risk everything on Jesus, the willingness to keep growing, and the readiness to risk failure throughout our lives.
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After all is said and done, I believe the true measure of success is how many times you can bounce back from failure.
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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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The reason we don't often confront the larger question of whether or not war is survivable is because of a failure of imagination. We honestly cannot imagine having reached a state in our own evolution in which we do not fight.
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I was worried that I didn't have as many Facebook 'likes' as another musician. You can almost feel like a failure if you aren't building your fame in that way.
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No one suggested Lehman deserved to be saved. But the argument has been made that the crisis might have been less severe if it had been saved, because Lehman's failure created remarkable uncertainty in the market as investors became confused about the role of the government and whether it was picking winners and losers.
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All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
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The only real failure to me is if you don't finish something.
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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.
