684 private quotes tagged failure

“Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them.” — Doug Coupland

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“The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.” — Francis Picabia

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“One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.” — John W. Gardner

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“Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.” — James Russell Lowell

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“Indecision and delays are the parents of failure.” — George Canning

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“The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.” — Michael Korda

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“No matter how vast, how total, the failure of man here on earth, the work of man will be resumed elsewhere. War leaders talk of resuming operations on this front and that, but man's front embraces the whole universe.” — Henry Miller

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“I have a lack of fear, whereas in the past the fear of failure was a powerful motivator. Anyway, I have great expectations for the future, but I just don't know if I'm the monarch of all I survey.” — Sylvester Stallone

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“War remains the decisive human failure.” — John Kenneth Galbraith

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“We may be personally defeated, but our principles never!” — William Lloyd Garrison

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“If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.” — Zig Ziglar

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“Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.” — Denis Waitley

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“There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.” — John Keats

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“If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure.” — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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“Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble.” — Shahrukh Khan

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“Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.” — Amelia Earhart

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“Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure.” — Gary Ryan Blair

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“I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.” — Tom Hopkins

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“Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.” — Roger Babson

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“I'm hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure.” — George W. Bush

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“As I said there is nothing wrong with failing. Pick yourself up and try it again. You never are going to know how good you really are until you go out and face failure.” — Henry Kravis

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“Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.” — Michael Korda

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“You always pass failure on your way to success.” — Mickey Rooney

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“My life has been nothing but a failure.” — Claude Monet

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“One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.” — Thomas Sowell

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