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Failure Quotes
"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."
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"Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently."
131
"If we don't succeed we run the risk of failure."
62
"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."
59
"Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes."
59
"Is anarchism possible? The failure of attempts to attain freedom does not mean the cause is lost."
58
"Show me a good and gracious loser and I'll show you a failure."
58
"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."
56
"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."
56
"I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win."
56
"In Iraq we must succeed. Failure is not an option."
55
"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."
52
"Yes, risk taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing-taking."
52
"Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure."
51
"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."
51
"I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process."
51
"All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure."
50
"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?"
49
"Failure is part of life, but surrender is the end of life."
49
"I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure."
48
"There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see."
47
"Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed."
47
"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."
47
"Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets."
47
"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."
46
"I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying."
46
"Philanthropic colonization is a failure. National colonization will succeed."
45
"Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails."
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