Failure Quotes
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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.
Michael Malone
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You always pass failure on the way to success.
Mickey Rooney
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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.
William Faulkner
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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.
Ernest Sosa
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If I can see it, it's a failure.
Bill Buxton
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Success or failure in minority education means success or failure for the U.S.
Chuck Thompson
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I chose life over death for myself and my friends... I believe it is in our nature to explore, to reach out into the unknown. The only true failure would be not to explore at all.
Ernest Shackleton
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Honesty is the fastest way to prevent a mistake from turning into a failure.
James Altucher
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No man who has managed to keep out of an office can be called a failure in life.
Richard Aldington
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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.
Kevin Powers
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The Bush Administration's failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world.
Barack Obama
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Many now veer away from the time-honored use of the term Father as applied to the Christian God ... This difficulty rests mainly, I believe, on failure to distinguish between a symbol and a definition.
Georgia Harkness
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Where Example keeps pace with Authority, Power hardly fails to be obey'd.
William Penn
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Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure.
Sidney Hook
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Lamon, that speech won't scour. It is a flat failure and the people are disappointed.
Abraham Lincoln
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Without failure there is no achievement.
John C. Maxwell
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To think of failure is to fail.
Arthur Saxon
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Mrs. Colquhoun was being amiable because she thought Catherine was down and out, and Mrs. Colquhoun was what she was, hard, severe, critical, grudging of happiness, kind to failure so long as it remained failure, simply because there wasn’t a soul in the whole world who really loved her. A devoted husband would have done much to bring out her original goodness; a very devoted husband would have done everything.
Elizabeth von Arnim
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Failure is the seed of success
Kaoru Ishikawa
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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!
Catherine Ponder
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Every failure can be considered as a tragedy or a chance to learn something. The latter is healthier...
Harry Emerson Fosdick
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There are two unpardonable sins in this world -- success and failure.
George Horace Lorimer
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Life is a problem. Not merely a premiss from which we start, but a goal towards which we proceed. It is an opportunity for us not merely to get, but to attain; not simply to have, but to be. Its standard of failure or success is not outward fortune, but inward possession.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
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I believe that the heaviest blow ever dealt at liberty's head will be dealt by this nation in the ultimate failure of its example to the earth.
Charles Dickens