Failure Quotes

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This attempt to isolate cell constituents might have been a

This attempt to isolate cell constituents might have been a failure if they had been destroyed by the relative brutality of the technique employed. But this did not happen.

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African Americans make up about 13 percent of the U.S. popul

African Americans make up about 13 percent of the U.S. population but comprise 32 percent of patients treated for kidney failure, giving them a kidney failure rate that is 4.2 times greater than that of white Americans.

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Once he had been so formidable that he was surrounded by ene

Once he had been so formidable that he was surrounded by enemies. Now even his enemies has lost interest in him. What clearer sign of failure could you find than that?

Orson Scott Card

Failure Enemies

You'll never convince me there is a hopeless situation or th

You'll never convince me there is a hopeless situation or there is any finality in any success or any failure.

Failure

Our educational system is not preparing people for the 21st

Our educational system is not preparing people for the 21st Century. Failure is an essential part of entrepreneurship. If you work hard, you can get an 'A' pretty much guaranteed, but in entrepreneurship, that's not how it works.

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Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church pol

Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life.

E. Franklin Frazier

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Failure

In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading

In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.

Failure

The attributes for entrepreneurs cut both ways. You need the

The attributes for entrepreneurs cut both ways. You need the ability to ignore inconvenient facts and see the world as it should be and not as it is. This inspires people to take huge leaps of faith. But this blindness to facts can be a liability, too. The characteristics that help entrepreneurs succeed can also lead to their failure.

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My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

Abraham Lincoln

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The failure of Socialism since 1945 is that whilst encouragi

The failure of Socialism since 1945 is that whilst encouraging us all, the creators of wealth, to produce less through strikes, it has caused us all to demand a higher level of our own product.

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Their lives have been largely defined by failure and you wou

Their lives have been largely defined by failure and you would think the prospect of marriage, which is supposed to be bountiful and hopeful, it's just really another kind of tangential thing in his life.

Thomas Haden Church

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Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band

Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them.

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Failure is the most terrible thing in our business. When we

Failure is the most terrible thing in our business. When we fail, the whole world knows about it.

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Humanitarian missions are little different from any other pu

Humanitarian missions are little different from any other public enterprise, diplomacy included, which is susceptible of misinterpretation by the public, hence ultimately of failure.

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But all actors go through the process, it's hit and miss, yo

But all actors go through the process, it's hit and miss, you have achievement and failure.

Thomas Haden Church

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Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this wi

Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.

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But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind

But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.

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My life has been nothing but a failure.

My life has been nothing but a failure.

Failure

Whether in success or in failure, I'm proud of every single

Whether in success or in failure, I'm proud of every single movie I've ever directed.

Steven Spielberg

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