684 private quotes tagged failure

“The will to persevere is often the difference between failure and success.” — David Sarnoff

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“Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.” — Orlando Bloom

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“I believe in trusting men, not only once but twice - in giving a failure another chance.” — James Cash Penney

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“Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.” — Susan Sontag

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“The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower.” — Audre Lorde

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“Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail their failure must be but a challenge to others.” — Amelia Earhart

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“If we don't succeed we run the risk of failure.” — Dan Quayle

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“Failure has gone to his head.” — Wilson Mizner

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“Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result? Could the underlying cause be our failure to correctly understand the true nature of happiness?” — Daisaku Ikeda

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“I don't want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about.” — Emma Watson

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“I've probably earned the right to screw up a few times. I don't want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about.” — Emma Watson

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“Success is never final, but failure can be.” — Bill Parcells

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“For families across the UK who are income-poor, but more than that, whose lives are blighted by worklessness, educational failure, family breakdown, problem debt and poor health, as well as other problems, giving them an extra pound - say through increased benefits - will not address the reason they find themselves in difficulty in the first place.” — Iain Duncan Smith

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“Not failure, but low aim is sin.” — Benjamin E. Mays

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“Failure is a part of success.” — Hank Aaron

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“I have probably purchased fifty 'hot tips' in my career, maybe even more. When I put them all together, I know I am a net loser.” — Charles M. Schwab

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“Heaven knows that I have done all that a mortal could do, to save the people, and the failure was not my fault, but the fault of others.” — Davy Crockett

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“Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure.” — Sylvester Stallone

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“A hatred of failure has always been part of my nature.” — Paul Getty

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“Whether in success or in failure, I'm proud of every single movie I've ever directed.” — Steven Spielberg

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“In high school, in sport, I had a coach who told me I was much better than I thought I was, and would make me do more in a positive sense. He was the first person who taught me not to be afraid of failure.” — Mike Krzyzewski

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“There's no right or wrong, success or failure.” — Miley Cyrus

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“That sense of failure, I don't know where people put it who don't write songs and aren't able to emote physically. It must go somewhere.” — Sting

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“In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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“Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being.” — Doug Coupland

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