Failure Quotes
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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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There are some advantages to being a writer: you do generally get better as you get older. I think I understand things better. When I was a kid, I was kind of guessing at the emotion. Now I'm interested in writing more difficult books, books that confront the facts of life, of death and dying and failure - the majority of life. You write outwardly imaginative books when you're younger. When you're older you apply imagination to internal experience.
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When the risk of failure is too high, the right choice is to forbear.
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Across the board, this program has been an abject failure.
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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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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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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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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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It's not a very high failure rate if you choose people that you really like the sound of.
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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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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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It's true what they say about failure. You don't learn from success.
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Freedom doesn't become 'lost' through abuse; freedom is lost through our failure to exercise it.
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Fear comes in two packages fear of failure, and sometimes, fear of success.
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One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.
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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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Making a mistake is falling down; failure is not getting up again.
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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.
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Reward worthy failure - Experimentation.
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My reputation grows with every failure.
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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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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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Humility, and the most patient perseverance, seem almost as necessary in gardening as rain and sunshine, and every failure must be used as a stepping-stone to something better.
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Failure is blindness to the strategic element in events; success is readiness for instant action when the opportune moment arrives.
