Failure Quotes
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To think of failure is to fail.
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Failure is just part of the process, and it's not just okay; it's better than okay. God doesn't want failure to shut us down. God didn't make it a three-strikes-and-you're-out sort of thing. It's more about how God helps us dust ourselves off so we can swing for the fences again. And all of this without keeping a meticulous record of our screw-ups.
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Someone once pulled me aside and said it was all right to succeed, and I realised that I knew what failure felt like, but I didn't know what success felt like. I've carried that with me ever since.
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Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.
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Never be afraid to fail. Failure is only a stepping stone to improvement. Never be overconfident because that will block your improvement.
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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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We are able to learn from a failure, but perhaps not much from a success!
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It's always something to get one's wish, even if the wish is a failure.
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There is no such thing as a failure who keeps trying.
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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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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.
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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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Failure's not a bad thing. It builds character. It makes you stronger.
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The only real failure is trying to second-guess the taste of an audience. Nothing comes out of that except a kind of inward humiliation.
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Harness the Power of Accelerated Failure - the faster you fail, the faster you succeed.
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Many entrepreneurs resist to owing up to the conditions that created the shortcoming—conditions they themselves may have contributed to. They need to put ownership of the problem above the egotistical need of always wanting to look good. If they don’t, failure will result.
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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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Failure I can live with. Not trying is what I can't handle!
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The only real failure to me is if you don't finish something.
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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.
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How can you truly know what success is, if you’ve never experienced failure?
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I cannot, in good conscience, allow money to be wasted on a failure.
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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.
