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- Nov 07, 2020
Failure Quotes
What failure costs, and what it sometimes forces.
This page gathers failure quotes on a wide range of subjects: a legal misdemeanor for not filing a form, the long odds behind a legendary TV pilot season, and a blunt wartime statement that failure simply wasn't an option. One entry reflects on a major historical intelligence failure. See Fear for what often sits just behind failure.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, all war is failure for humanity, though it often is a bounty for commerce.
- Heart
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I had my dreams, and even though everyone told me that they weren't practical, I knew in my heart that this is what I had to do. Even if it ended up being a failure, I had to make the attempt.
- Leadership
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lead yourself whenever your boss' leadership deteriorates. When your boss doesn't praise what you do, praise yourself. When your boss doesn't make you big, make yourself big. Remember, if you have done your best, failure does not count.
- Promises
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone understands the European Union is a failure. It has not kept any of its promises - in particular about prosperity, security - and, worst of all, has put us under a guardianship.
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Success can be destructive to the creative process. I say it all the time: success is as dangerous as total failure.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
Radical common sense is the wisdom gleaned from the past that recognizes the perishable opportunities of the moment. It is the willingness to admit error and the refusal to be deterred by failure.
- Imagination
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I don't know if it's a failure of imagination on my part, but I'm not going to be writing about Paris in the 1800s. I feel like it would come off as just ludicrously uninformed, even if I did a lot of research.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing fails like failure.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don’t live my life based on fear of failure. I live my life with an understanding of failure and I’m embracing it, because every time I fail, I learn something new.
- Respect
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- Nov 07, 2020
In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was taught that to create anything you had to believe in failure, simply because you had to be prepared to go through an idea without any fear. Failure, you learned, as I did in art school, to be a wonderful thing. It allowed you to get up in the morning and take the pillow off your head.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
The moral turpitude of the boys of today appears to center in their failure to concentrate on any particular objective long enough to obtain their maximum results.
- Lot
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yes, 'Aagadu' was a failure. I was dejected for a couple of months, since there was a lot at stake.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
To err is human, but it feels divine.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020