Failure Quotes
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Milton says, “The mind can make a heaven of hell, or a hell of heaven.” I try remind myself daily that success and failure have less to do with actual results but rather how we choose to respond to the results. You can squander success and you can overcome failure. You can flourish or you can flounder. Sometimes it’s about choosing which feelings to fight and which feelings to follow.
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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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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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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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Could many of our ills today have resulted from our failure to train a strong citizenry from the only source we have - the boys and girls of each community? Have they grown up to believe in politics without principle, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without effort, wealth without work, business without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice?
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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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My reputation grows with every failure.
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Failure is impossible.
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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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People are not afraid of failure, they're afraid of blame.
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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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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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Failure is a necessary part of success.
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I thank God for my failures. Maybe not at the time but after some reflection. I never feel like a failure just because something I tried has failed.
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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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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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Failure makes the success worth it.
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Without exposure to potential failure, there is no risk.
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The man who lives for himself is a failure; the man who lives for others has achieved true success.
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Fear brings failure; faith brings success. It's just that simple.
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The tiny cost of failure...is dwarfed by the huge cost of not trying.
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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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I don't understand a way to work other than bold-facedly running towards 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.
