Failure Quotes
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Success without happiness is failure.
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But the greatest error is not to move. The greatest error is to be paralysed by the fear of 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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The thing I love about God is He intentionally guides people into failure.
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Failure is a fundamental factor of 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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The difference between success and failure is not which stock you buy or which piece of real estate you buy, it's asset allocation.
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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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Artists know failure. It is not tragic that they know failure; it is only tragic if they know failure and little else.
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If you have the will to win, you have achieved half your success; if you don't, you have achieved half your failure.
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Any policy is a success by sufficiently low standards and a failure by sufficiently high standards.
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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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TO: ALL TEACHERS FROM: JAMES J. MCHABE, ADM. ASST. PLEASE PLOT AND HAND IN THE MEDIAN PERCENTILE CURVE BASED ON THE MIDTERM MARKS IN EACH OF YOUR CLASSES. IF A CLASS CURVE FALLS BELOW THE PERCENTILE OF FAILURES ALLOTTED TO IT, THE EFFICACY OF THE TEACHER MUST BE QUESTIONED. TEACHERS WITH THE HIGHEST NUMBER OF PASSING STUDENTS ARE TO BE COMMENDED.
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I really don't think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don't mind the failure but I can't imagine that I'd forgive myself if I didn't try.
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When the risk of failure is too high, the right choice is to forbear.
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Magic was always bound to claim her in the end, in retrospect, but love was the most susceptible to random failure of all human enterprises.
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Without exposure to potential failure, there is no risk.
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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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I’m not the first to say that failure, when approached properly, can be an opportunity for growth.
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Failure makes the success worth it.
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Making a mistake is falling down; failure is not getting up again.
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I can't say I'm not grateful to have journalists writing about me as a genius. But I know it's not true. I'm not confused. I understand that success comes through a lot of failure and a lot of very embarrassing failure. People want to create the next Facebook, but they are too afraid to create the next Facemash.
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I don't understand a way to work other than bold-facedly running towards failure.
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You can not achieve success without the risk of failure. If you are not afraid to fail, than you have a chance, but you are never going to get there unless you risk it.
