Failure Quotes
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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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There are some advantages to being a writer: you do generally get better as you get older. I think I understand things better. When I was a kid, I was kind of guessing at the emotion. Now I'm interested in writing more difficult books, books that confront the facts of life, of death and dying and failure - the majority of life. You write outwardly imaginative books when you're younger. When you're older you apply imagination to internal experience.
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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.
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You're never a loser until you quit trying.
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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 was meant to be that life would be a challenge. To suffer some anxiety, some depression, some disappointment, even some failure is normal. Teach our members that if they have a good, miserable day once in a while, or several in a row, to stand steady and face them. Things will straighten out. There is great purpose in our struggle in life.
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Freedom doesn't become 'lost' through abuse; freedom is lost through our failure to exercise it.
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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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Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought.
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We unfortunately live in a corporate world where group decision making is made to avoid failure rather than to achieve success.
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I tell myself it's a virtue, my failure to sleep in my own house, or at all. I tell myself that I spend more hours than most people aware that I am alive, and that over a lifetime this adds up to more living, more aliveness. I am more alive than the rest of my family. Which is my greatest night fear. Which is why I hunt. I don't ever want to be more alive than they are.
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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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Science and psychology have isolated the one prime cause for success or failure in life. It is the hidden self-image you have of yourself.
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Success makes us intolerant of failure and failure makes us intolerant of success.
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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.
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It's not a very high failure rate if you choose people that you really like the sound of.
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Failure is a reality; we all fail at times, and it's painful when we do. But it's better to fail while striving for something wonderful, challenging, adventurous, and uncertain than to say, " I don't want to try because I may not succeed completely.
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Reward worthy failure - Experimentation.
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Pessimism is an excuse for not trying and a guarantee to a personal failure.
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Watching myself fight, I realize the line between success and failure is so narrow, it's scary.
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Art Is a Way Out. Do not let life overwhelm you. When the old paths are choked with the débris of failure, look for newer and fresher paths. Art is just such a path. Art is distilled from suffering.
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The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.
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Across the board, this program has been an abject failure.
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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.
