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Failure Quotes
"Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently."
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"I - and I still consider myself, I'm sorry to tell you, a Marxist and a Communist, but I couldn't help noticing how all the best Marxist analyses are always analyses of a failure."
51
"If we don't succeed we run the risk of failure."
32
"Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes."
30
"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."
26
"It's probably foolish to expect relationships to go on forever and to say that because something only lasts 10 years, it's a failure."
26
"Yes, risk taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing-taking."
26
"Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure."
25
"I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win."
23
"You must not demand the failure of your peers, because the more good things that are around in film, in television, in theater - why the better it is for all of us."
23
"You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give."
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"I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying."
23
"Is anarchism possible? The failure of attempts to attain freedom does not mean the cause is lost."
22
"Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure."
22
"You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you can be satisfied that you've tried. If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk."
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"There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose."
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"Failure is part of life, but surrender is the end of life."
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"He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being."
21
"I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process."
21
"The failure of Christianity in the areas west from Sicily was even greater, and was increased by the spread of Arab outlooks and influence to that area, and especially to Spain."
21
"The paranoiac is the exact image of the ruler. The only difference is their position in the world. One might even think the paranoiac the more impressive of the two because he is sufficient unto himself and cannot be shaken by failure."
20
"Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure."
20
"Is the proposed operation likely to succeed? What might the consequences of failure? Is it in the realm of practicability in terms of material and supplies?"
20
"All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure."
19
"By virtually any measure, the record of the Republican Majority is an appalling failure."
19
"It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression."
19
"Well, I think first of all there was a failure to have real, clear information at our disposal. There was a real lack of situational awareness. We didn't have the capabilities on the ground to give us real-time, accurate assessments of the physical condition of the city."
18
"Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed."
18
"Show me a good and gracious loser and I'll show you a failure."
18
"Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles."
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