Failure Quotes
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Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.
Horace
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You have to be willing to recognize failure.
Deborah Solomon
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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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The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.
George Eliot
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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 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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Success without fulfillment is failure.
Anthony Robbins
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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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Faithfulness requires the courage to risk everything on Jesus, the willingness to keep growing, and the readiness to risk failure throughout our lives.
Brennan Manning
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You're never a loser until you quit trying.
Mike Ditka
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I'm done with those; regrets are an excuse for people who have failed.
Ned Vizzini
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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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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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It's true what they say about failure. You don't learn from success.
Dustin Hoffman
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It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
Bill Gates
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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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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.
Bob Proctor
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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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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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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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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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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.
Freya Stark
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I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
Anthony Robbins
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Across the board, this program has been an abject failure.
Eric Massa