Failure Quotes
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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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My reputation grows with every failure.
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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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It's not a very high failure rate if you choose people that you really like the sound of.
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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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How can you truly know what success is, if you’ve never experienced failure?
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There isn't any question about Washington's greatness. If his administration had been a failure, there would have been no United States. A lesser man couldn't have done it.... Washington was both a great administrator and a great leader, a truly great man in every way.
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When the risk of failure is too high, the right choice is to forbear.
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When we are confronted by failure and mistakes, we can leave them behind and go on with our lives.
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The man who lives for himself is a failure; the man who lives for others has achieved true success.
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Fear brings failure; faith brings success. It's just that simple.
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Fear comes in two packages fear of failure, and sometimes, fear of success.
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Failure is blindness to the strategic element in events; success is readiness for instant action when the opportune moment arrives.
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There has never been a failure of a currency board anywhere in the world. These are tough systems, and when I say they are foolproof, that's exactly the case.
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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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When people are compulsively and constantly pulled back into the past, to the last time they felt intense involvement and deep emotions, they suffer from a failure of imagination, a loss of the mental flexibility. Without imagination there is no hope, no chance to envision a better future, no place to go, no goal to reach.
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Freedom doesn't become 'lost' through abuse; freedom is lost through our failure to exercise it.
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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.
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Failure is impossible.
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The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action.
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God never places us in any position in which we can not grow. We may fancy that He does. We may fear we are so impeded by fretting, petty cares that we are gaining nothing; but when we are not sending any branches upward, we may be sending roots downward. Perhaps in the time of our humiliation, when everything seems a failure, we are making the best kind of progress.
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The first step is crucial - keep it tiny. Do not be ambitious yet. That leads to failure. Consistency is what you’re shooting for here so make the hurdle as low as possible.
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A "poem" is understood as something referring to a failure of language to be equal to the possibilities it figures.
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I pretend I've got lots of confidence and I'm a big jock and like that but deep inside I'm a frightened, insecure, can't-make-it failure.
