Failure Quotes
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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.
Brennan Manning
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I get asked, 'How can you have such failures in your films?' Well, what else is life about? There's some sense of constant failure in something. Humor gives you a distance from it.
Alexander Payne
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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.
Thomas A. Edison
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Every woman knows that, regardless of all her other achievements, she is a failure if she is not beautiful.
Germaine Greer
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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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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.
Ed Catmull
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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
George Eliot
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America was the worst place in the world in which to fail, fall sick, get old or die, because then your problems had crystallised into the unforgivable sin. Failure.
Evelyn Anthony
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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.
Christian D. Larson
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I think the greatest taboos in America are faith and failure.
Michael Malone
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We are only human, a condition of perpetual uncertainty and failure.
Craig Davidson
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Harness the Power of Accelerated Failure - the faster you fail, the faster you succeed.
Bill Bonner
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I cannot, in good conscience, allow money to be wasted on a failure.
Winston Groom
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Pessimism is an excuse for not trying and a guarantee to a personal failure.
Bill Clinton
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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.
EMA
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The only real failure to me is if you don't finish something.
Josh Malerman
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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.
Ethan Nadelmann
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Your theory is true, to a degree. The great teams are the ones that keep improving when they're having success. It's easier to handle failure than success.
Dan Monson
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You're never a loser until you quit trying.
Mike Ditka
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You have to be willing to recognize failure.
Deborah Solomon
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Life is nothing but a bunch of experiences. There's no such thing as success or failure.
Suki Waterhouse
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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.
Marianne Williamson
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It's true what they say about failure. You don't learn from success.
Dustin Hoffman
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When you are having a rough day... you think you are failing. But failure is a part of life. It's about building character and growing.
Nick Foles