Failure Quotes
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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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People are not afraid of failure, they're afraid of blame.
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How can you truly know what success is, if you’ve never experienced failure?
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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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I think success is a lot more healthy than failure.
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We are able to learn from a failure, but perhaps not much from a success!
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There is no such thing as a failure who keeps trying.
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I've spent most of my life trying to think my way to happiness, and my failure to achieve that goal only proves, in my mind, that I am not a good enough thinker. It never occurred to me that the source of my unhappiness is not flawed thinking but thinking itself.
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Failure is a necessary part of success.
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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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A "poem" is understood as something referring to a failure of language to be equal to the possibilities it figures.
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Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter.
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What does so-called success or failure matter if only you have succeeded in doing the thing you set out to do. The DOING is all that really counts.
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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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The man who lives for himself is a failure. Even if he gains much wealth, position or fortune, he is still a failure. The man who lives for others has achieved true success. A rich man who consecrates his wealth and his position to the good of humanity is a success.
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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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Without seeking truth it is unlikely you will find success. The truth very well might set you free, but it’s not always fun. People say they want the truth, but more accurately, they want the truth that is easy to hear. They don’t want the painful truths that don’t support our decisions or force us to accept we were wrong about something. But without truth, you will never be able to course-correct. Putting the company first and your bruised feelings second is an important step in saving your start-up from failure.
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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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The tiny cost of failure...is dwarfed by the huge cost of not trying.
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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 would be a real failure if agreeing that it [abortion] was not an electoral issue provided an alibi for taking it seriously as a public issue.
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I've always felt that 'game over' is a state of failure more for the game designer than from the player.
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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 not the first to say that failure, when approached properly, can be an opportunity for growth.
