Failure Quotes
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Without seeking truth it is unlikely you will find success. The truth very well might set you free, but it’s not always fun. People say they want the truth, but more accurately, they want the truth that is easy to hear. They don’t want the painful truths that don’t support our decisions or force us to accept we were wrong about something. But without truth, you will never be able to course-correct. Putting the company first and your bruised feelings second is an important step in saving your start-up from failure.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
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The not-understanding was worse than anything else, it was like a mystery and a wound that couldn't heal and an unforgivable failure.
Charlie Jane Anders
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Watching myself fight, I realize the line between success and failure is so narrow, it's scary.
Georges St-Pierre
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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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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.
Eric Greitens
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I can accept failure,everyonefails at something. But I can't accept not trying
Thomas A. Edison
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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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I've spent most of my life trying to think my way to happiness, and my failure to achieve that goal only proves, in my mind, that I am not a good enough thinker. It never occurred to me that the source of my unhappiness is not flawed thinking but thinking itself.
Eric Weiner
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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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Any policy is a success by sufficiently low standards and a failure by sufficiently high standards.
Thomas Sowell
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My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.
Harry S Truman
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Failure I can live with. Not trying is what I can't handle!
Sanya Richards-Ross
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If something's important enough, you should try. Even if you - the probable outcome is failure.
Elon Musk
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Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought.
Joseph Barbera
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Do not allow yourselves to be disheartened by any failure as long as you have done your best.
Mother Teresa
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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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The only time a mistake becomes a failure is when we look for someone to blame.
Bill Crawford
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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.
Richard M. Nixon
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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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You're never a loser until you quit trying.
Mike Ditka
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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
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But my research had taught me that the tissue of contradictions that was my personality was itself, at best, a poem, where “poem” is understood as referring to a failure of language to be equal to the possibilities it figures; only then could my fraudulence be a project and not merely a pathology; only then could my distance from myself be redescribed as critical, aesthetic, as opposed to a side effect of what experts might call my substance problem, felicitous phrase, the origins of which lay not in my desire to evade reality, but in my desire to have a chemical excuse for reality’s unavailability.
Ben Lerner
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The difference between a score in the 90s and a century is often reflected as the difference between failure and success. It may be illogical, but in cricket, a century has its own magic.
Geoffrey Boycott
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The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.
George Eliot