Failure Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
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Failure is impossible.
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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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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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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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All forms of government ultimately are not going to succeed in trying to control or censor the Internet.
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My reputation grows with every failure.
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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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People are not afraid of failure, they're afraid of blame.
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The tiny cost of failure...is dwarfed by the huge cost of not trying.
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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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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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I don't understand a way to work other than bold-facedly running towards failure.
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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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Fear brings failure; faith brings success. It's just that simple.
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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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The man who lives for himself is a failure; the man who lives for others has achieved true success.
