- Human
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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
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hate failure and that divorce was a Number One failure in my eyes. It was the worst period of my life. Neither Desi nor I have been the same since, physically or mentally.
- Sometimes
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love failure. It's stuff that I'm thinking about all the time in my life, so it would make sense to me anyway to write about it.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think I've failed every test I've ever taken. If there was a failure I would have been it.
- Missing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Don't be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
The average member of the public thinks of 'business' as an impersonal corporate entity owned by the very rich and managed by overpaid executives. There is an almost total failure to appreciate that 'business' actually embraces - in one way or another - most Americans.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even in a gleefully negative comic, there is optimism, although it's slightly hidden: It comes out through a comic character's sheer tenacity. He keeps going and trying to find some sort of fulfillment regardless of his perpetual failure record. That's a form of hope, a form of optimism. Really hokey I know, but it's true.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
I guess it's the fear of failure and not knowing how the films are going to do that just drives us to work really hard to make them the best they can possibly be.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm living life as best I can - but I'm not exempt from failure and making bad choices.
- Immigration
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- Nov 07, 2020
Former Sen. Alan Simpson of Wyoming, the co-author of the 1986 Simpson-Mazzoli immigration reform bill, has said the failure of that bill was a function of the lack of an ID card system.
- Disappointment
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- Nov 07, 2020