- 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
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
As an outside; don't worry about failure, because failure will take care of itself. Focus on success.
- General Welfare
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- Nov 07, 2020
This dullness of vision regarding the importance of the general welfare to the individual is the measure of the failure of our schools and churches to teach the spiritual significance of genuine democracy.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to feel an obligation to invent things. I felt I was a failure because I didn't do massive great novels about Australia or the outback or something. I just don't feel that any more.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't let a failure keep you down, because if you stay down after you fail, you are going to stay down for good.
- Lack
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- Nov 07, 2020
At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
And I went to New York and died; for 10 years I walked those pavements. I can't think of New York without feeling uncomfortable and feeling like a failure.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fact that The Bridge contains folk lore and other material suitable to the epic form need not therefore prove its failure as a long lyric poem, with interrelated sections.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
It must not be forgotten in fairness to the National Government that apartheid is not just a policy of oppression but an attempt - in my opinion an attempt doomed to failure - to find an alternative to a policy of racial integration which is fair to both white and black.
- Trying
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is a changing world because of the newcomers who keep arriving and who leave us behind. Trying to keep pace with them is doomed to inglorious failure, especially as the pace has quickened so much.
- Nov 07, 2020
Failure is a part of success.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
This is how I started: My mom was crazy for antique shops and junk shops, and my sister and I would play this game where, if we were driving with my parents and saw a junk shop or an antique shop, we'd scream at the top of our lungs. My poor father would have heart failure and screech to a halt, and we'd leap out and go and explore.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020