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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
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just felt that 'Golden Balls' was the right thing to do. I didn't care if people thought I was a failure.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe only in art and failure.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we're in game worlds, I believe that many of us become the best version of ourselves: the most likely to help at a moment's notice. The most likely to stick with a problem as long as it takes. To get up after failure and try again.
- Nov 07, 2020
If you're a doctor or a lawyer or teacher, if you only get three things right out of 10, you're considered a failure.
- Crime
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- Nov 07, 2020
Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
Feeling is the consciousness of the resulting conditions - of success, failure, equilibrium, compromise or balance, in this continuous rivalry of ideas.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
Usually, with the work I've done, by the end, I usually feel like it's a failure. It doesn't matter how it's received.
- Fear
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He who has conquered doubt and fear has conquered failure.
- Mistakes
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that Obama's failure to reestablish the rule of law in money matters is the most damaging thing that he's done - and perhaps the most damaging thing that has happened in American politics in my lifetime. Because once the rule of law is absent in money matters, then anything really goes in politics.
- Economic
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- Nov 07, 2020
The carrying out of the Potsdam Agreement has, however, been obstructed by the failure of the Allied Control Council to take the necessary steps to enable the German economy to function as an economic unit.
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