Failure Quotes
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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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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 only time a mistake becomes a failure is when we look for someone to blame.
Bill Crawford
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Success without fulfillment is failure.
Anthony Robbins
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If you are burdened with depressing feelings of guilt or disappointment, of failure or shame, there is a cure.
Boyd K. Packer
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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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I can't say I'm not grateful to have journalists writing about me as a genius. But I know it's not true. I'm not confused. I understand that success comes through a lot of failure and a lot of very embarrassing failure. People want to create the next Facebook, but they are too afraid to create the next Facemash.
Eric Ries
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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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Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.
Horace
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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.
Heidi Julavits
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Freedom doesn't become 'lost' through abuse; freedom is lost through our failure to exercise it.
Elf Sternberg
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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.
Nathanael West
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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.
Bill Cahan
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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.
Jimmy Carter
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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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You're never a loser until you quit trying.
Mike Ditka
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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 failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.
George Eliot
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You have to be willing to recognize failure.
Deborah Solomon
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When we are confronted by failure and mistakes, we can leave them behind and go on with our lives.
Benjamin Carson
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Pessimism is an excuse for not trying and a guarantee to a personal failure.
Bill Clinton
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Fear comes in two packages fear of failure, and sometimes, fear of success.
Tom Kite
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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.
Boyd K. Packer
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It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
Bill Gates