Failure Quotes

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It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire i

It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.

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Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never t

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

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Failure to properly control our borders costs citizens in ma

Failure to properly control our borders costs citizens in many ways: schools become overcrowded, medical resources are stretched too thin, other government services are overtaxed, and taxes increase further.

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In Torch Song, I did that character almost non-stop from 197

In Torch Song, I did that character almost non-stop from 1978 until I made the movie in 1987. Then I had some failure, which also colors how you react to doing other things.

Harvey Fierstein

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Children, who play life, discern its true law and relations

Children, who play life, discern its true law and relations more clearly than men, who fail to live it worthily, but who think that they are wiser by experience, that is, by failure

Henry David Thoreau

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The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad

The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed.

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Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failur

Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.

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Coming to terms with the fact that my marriage was a failure

Coming to terms with the fact that my marriage was a failure was devastating and very difficult.

Sarah McLachlan

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Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of

Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.

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The exposed nature of life in the public square affects lead

The exposed nature of life in the public square affects leaders' attitudes toward risk - and failure.

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There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to ach

There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.

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I think that failure by your own standards is certainly a fo

I think that failure by your own standards is certainly a form of success.

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Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any

Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.

Lillian Hellman

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The vast majority of large scale change efforts fail. Which

The vast majority of large scale change efforts fail. Which means that the probability that you have actually experienced a failure, and your people know that and are pessimistic, therefore, about trying something again, is very high.

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Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is th

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.

George Edward Woodberry

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It is impossible to live without failing at something, unles

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might has well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.

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At the end of the day I have always seen the end of my relat

At the end of the day I have always seen the end of my relationships as a personal failure. There is nothing ever pretty in saying goodbye.

Elisabetta Canalis

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Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every d

Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

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I can't say I'm not grateful to have journalists writing abo

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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Nearly' only counts in horseshoes and hand-grenades.

Nearly' only counts in horseshoes and hand-grenades.

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