Failure Quotes
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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.
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You should know," said Estella. "I am what you have made me. Take all the praise, take all the blame; take all the success, take all the failure; in short, take me.
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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.
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In failure, children learn how to struggle with adversity and how to confront fear. By reflecting on failure, children begin to see how to correct themselves and then try again with better results.
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Failure I can live with. Not trying is what I can't handle!
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Anyone who says failure is not an option has also ruled out innovation.
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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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Absence of failure does not constitute success.
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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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Do not allow yourselves to be disheartened by any failure as long as you have done your best.
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Failure is a part of my job, but I always see it as an opportunity to approach my work differently.
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I do think the biggest problem newspapers have is loss of trust, and I feel that's a result of failure to speak truth to power.
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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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Through the power of his grace, God can turn around the most devastating sin or failure in our lives.
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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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If something's important enough, you should try. Even if you - the probable outcome is failure.
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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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You're never a loser until you quit trying.
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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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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.
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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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The only time a mistake becomes a failure is when we look for someone to blame.
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It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
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Life, to be happy at all, must be in its way a sacrament, and it is a failure in religion to divorce it from the holy acts of everyday, of ordinary human existence.
