684 private quotes tagged failure

“About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure.” — Tommy Lasorda

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“It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.” — Samuel Smiles

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“If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure.” — Doug Coupland

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“I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure.” — Alan Rickman

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“I was taught that to create anything you had to believe in failure, simply because you had to be prepared to go through an idea without any fear. Failure, you learned, as I did in art school, to be a wonderful thing. It allowed you to get up in the morning and take the pillow off your head.” — Malcolm Mclaren

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“The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible that is, that one is male and the other female.” — Anna Quindlen

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“I have a tendency to sabotage relationships I have a tendency to sabotage everything. Fear of success, fear of failure, fear of being afraid. Useless, good-for-nothing thoughts.” — Michael Buble

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“Failure is impossible.” — Susan B. Anthony

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“Failure is always an option.” — Adam Savage

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“We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes - understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success.” — Arianna Huffington

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“Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.” — Abraham Joshua Heschel

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

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“The exposed nature of life in the public square affects leaders' attitudes toward risk - and failure.” — Dee Dee Myers

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

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“Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God.” — Charles Horton Cooley

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“Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.” — Victor Kiam

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“The only failure is not to try.” — George Clooney

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

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“With everything that is complex, we learn. If you don't learn, then it's an utter and abject failure. If you do learn, and you're able to apply that to the next situation, then you take away a measure of success.” — Benjamin Carson

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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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“The traditional religious right's failure to restore public-school prayer or pass an antiabortion constitutional amendment has likely helped fuel the spread of the more extreme dominionist school.” — Jon Meacham

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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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“The failure of world leaders to act on the critical issue of global warming is often blamed on economic considerations.” — David Suzuki

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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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