Failure Quotes
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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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The man who lives for himself is a failure; the man who lives for others has achieved true success.
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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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People are not afraid of failure, they're afraid of blame.
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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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Fear brings failure; faith brings success. It's just that simple.
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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 makes the success worth 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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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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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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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 thing I love about God is He intentionally guides people into failure.
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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 tiny cost of failure...is dwarfed by the huge cost of not trying.
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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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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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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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All forms of government ultimately are not going to succeed in trying to control or censor the Internet.
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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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But the greatest error is not to move. The greatest error is to be paralysed by the fear of failure.
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I've always felt that failure was a completely underrated experience.
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Without exposure to potential failure, there is no risk.
