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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
A failure to listen to the party's grassroots was a charge regularly levelled at Theresa May - particularly over Brexit.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obama said that his performance at bowling was so bad 'it was like the Special Olympics or something.' Disability, by Obama's definition, was about difference and failure.
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My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
- Hatred
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- Nov 07, 2020
A hatred of failure has always been part of my nature.
- Live
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It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.
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Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.
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When people read 'Breitbart' every single day and convince themselves that Barack Obama is a foreign terrorist, that is not a problem of government. That is a problem of community failure, and we have to recognize that.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Trump's biggest failure as a political leader is that he sees the worst in people, and he encourages the worst in people.
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Never tell anyone outside my staff that the Submarine Force and the First Air Fleet were responsible for the failure at Midway. The failure at Midway was mine.
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A traveller must buy his own experience, and success or failure depends mainly on personal idiosyncrasies.
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To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the most difficult of all, and so important, withal, that nations have perished from their failure to achieve it.
- Nov 07, 2020