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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
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind that exhausts the imaginative capacity; if it fails to do this the failure will announce itself either in prose or in insignificant verse.
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Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
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War is failure of diplomacy.
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The power of fear of failure, with will to win, is an incredible force. I don't think we should be worried about having a fear of failure; I think it's quite natural. If you surveyed any top businessman or any top athlete, I bet if they were truthful, they would all say they've got a fear of losing and a fear of failure.
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A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
- Man
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A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.
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We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve.
- Freedom
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Is anarchism possible? The failure of attempts to attain freedom does not mean the cause is lost.
- Man
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Man, failure was not an option whatsoever, 'cause I'm here to play music - that's what I've been put on earth for.
- Movement
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The hippy movement was a failure.
- Me
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I think failing the qualifying or the 11-plus actually hurt me more than I realised. After I'd become a professor of physics at the Open University, I suddenly thought, 'This is a bit silly.' So I suddenly became much more open about it. But I think probably I was hurt by the failure and didn't want to talk about it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
As soon as I did my first five minutes of stand-up I knew that I would rather be a failure at comedy than a success in marketing.
- Challenge
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- Nov 07, 2020