Failure Quotes
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The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action.
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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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Success makes us intolerant of failure and failure makes us intolerant of success.
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How can you truly know what success is, if you’ve never experienced 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.
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It's always something to get one's wish, even if the wish is a failure.
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Failure is a fundamental factor of success.
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Forget mistakes. Forget failure. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day.
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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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You have to be willing to recognize failure.
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Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.
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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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Pessimism is an excuse for not trying and a guarantee to a personal failure.
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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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I had a lot of successes, but what really made me fearless was my complete failure at Zidd-Davis. Once you've lived through that, you know you can survive, and you're not as scared... There's nothing to build confidence like real achievement, but also like real failure.
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Trade and wealth creation is not all upside. It is failure, too. Failure is a necessary component to growth and success. Babe Ruth struck out 1,330 times but also hit 714 home runs. We need to let failing entities fail. Only then will successful people turn these enterprises back into wealth-creating vehicles again. “Too big to fail” is a concept that perpetuates failure and saps vitality from the rest of the wealth creators to do so.
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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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I'm done with those; regrets are an excuse for people who have failed.
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It's true what they say about failure. You don't learn from success.
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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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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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Fear comes in two packages fear of failure, and sometimes, fear of success.
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Success is not built on success. It's built on failure. It's built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe.
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Succes is really nothing more than the record of failure. To be successful means you must be willing to fail more than anyone else.
