Failure Quotes

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No man ever became great or good except through many and gre

No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.

William Ewart Gladstone

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The failure of The Cable Guy impacted my career. I had to st

The failure of The Cable Guy impacted my career. I had to start writing and acting again.

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Tragedy in life normally comes with betrayal and compromise,

Tragedy in life normally comes with betrayal and compromise, and trading on your integrity and not having dignity in life. That's really where failure comes.

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Before I was married, I didn't consider my failure to manage

Before I was married, I didn't consider my failure to manage even basic hand tools a feminist inadequacy. I thought it had more to do with being Jewish. The Jews I knew growing up didn't do 'do-it-yourself.' When my father needed to hammer something he generally used his shoe, and the only real tool he owned was a pair of needle-nose pliers.

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My only failure was the restaurant in Myrtle Beach. I kept i

My only failure was the restaurant in Myrtle Beach. I kept it open for four years. It was in a tourist town, it was only busy four and half, five months of the year. But the bills kept coming all year.

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Slowly the poison the whole blood stream fills. It is not th

Slowly the poison the whole blood stream fills. It is not the effort nor the failure tires. The waste remains, the waste remains and kills.

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We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defe

We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free. Tom Robbins Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.

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People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they ar

People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

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My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in

My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.

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It's a failure of national vision when you regard children a

It's a failure of national vision when you regard children as weapons, and talents as materials you can mine, assay, and fabricate for profit and defense.

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Divorce is so common and accepted in America that beating my

Divorce is so common and accepted in America that beating myself up over it may sound ridiculous. But I was raised to believe that divorce wasn't an option to me, divorce equaled failure. I wasn't able to change that equation until I found myself in the right relationship.

Trisha Yearwood

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Failure does not count. If you accept this, you'll be succes

Failure does not count. If you accept this, you'll be successful. What causes most people to fail is that after one failure, they'll stop trying.

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Divorce is never a pleasant experience. You look upon it as

Divorce is never a pleasant experience. You look upon it as a failure. But I learned to be a different person once we broke up. Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success.

Michael Crawford

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I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no

I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.

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It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to ma

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

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I went to a motivational training course once, a course of s

I went to a motivational training course once, a course of self-discovery, and I found out after a week that my fear - it was not a fear of not being accepted - was a very violent fear of failure.

Emanuel Steward

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As might be supposed, my parents were quite poor, but we som

As might be supposed, my parents were quite poor, but we somehow never seemed to lack anything we needed, and I never saw a trace of discontent or a failure in cheerfulness over their lot in life, as indeed over anything.

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Failure, it is thought, is what sells, and what people want

Failure, it is thought, is what sells, and what people want to hear and read about. I am not so sure.

Alastair Campbell

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Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.

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The great question is not whether you have failed, but wheth

The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

Chinese Proverb

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