Failure Quotes
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Through the power of his grace, God can turn around the most devastating sin or failure in our lives.
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But my research had taught me that the tissue of contradictions that was my personality was itself, at best, a poem, where “poem” is understood as referring to a failure of language to be equal to the possibilities it figures; only then could my fraudulence be a project and not merely a pathology; only then could my distance from myself be redescribed as critical, aesthetic, as opposed to a side effect of what experts might call my substance problem, felicitous phrase, the origins of which lay not in my desire to evade reality, but in my desire to have a chemical excuse for reality’s unavailability.
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There's a sense that the drug war has proven its failure. Five or six years ago, people would say, "Well, we haven't really tried it." It's hard to say that with credibility any more. People tend to get bored with old ideas. and the war on drugs is becoming an old idea. There's a kind of natural pendulum or circularity, where people begin to think that change is inevitable. And that's going to happen in the drug area.
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If Steinitz continually took pains to discover combinations, the success or failure of his diligent search could not be explained by him as due to chance. Hence, he concluded that some characteristic, a quality of the given position, must exist that would indicate the success or the failure of the search before it was actually undertaken.
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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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If you aren't experiencing failure, then you are making a far worse mistake: You are being driven by the desire to avoid it.
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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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The tiny cost of failure...is dwarfed by the huge cost of not trying.
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Someone once pulled me aside and said it was all right to succeed, and I realised that I knew what failure felt like, but I didn't know what success felt like. I've carried that with me ever since.
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There is no such thing as a failure who keeps trying.
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I think success is a lot more healthy than failure.
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Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure.
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Failure is merely feedback that there is something blocking the path of the emergence and expansion of the greatest version of yourself.
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I'm troubled by what I see as a sort of rooting for Trump's failure, because that is rooting for our own 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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The only real failure is trying to second-guess the taste of an audience. Nothing comes out of that except a kind of inward humiliation.
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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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All forms of government ultimately are not going to succeed in trying to control or censor the Internet.
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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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Assad's failure to meet deadline on destroying chemical weapons is just the latest example of Obama's failed Syria policy.
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Pride is ugly. It says 'If you succeed I am a failure.'
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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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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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But the greatest error is not to move. The greatest error is to be paralysed by the fear of failure.
