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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."
20
"Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes."
15
"Failure is part of life, but surrender is the end of life."
12
"Yes, risk taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing-taking."
11
"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."
10
"Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure."
9
"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?"
9
"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."
9
"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."
8
"All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure."
7
"I failed to make the chess team because of my height."
7
"I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win."
7
"Is anarchism possible? The failure of attempts to attain freedom does not mean the cause is lost."
6
"Philanthropic colonization is a failure. National colonization will succeed."
6
"Failure doesn't kill you... it increases your desire to make something happen."
6
"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."
6
"By virtually any measure, the record of the Republican Majority is an appalling failure."
6
"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."
6
"If we do not get No Child Left Behind right for Limited English Proficient students, the law will be a failure for most schools in the 15th Congressional District, and for many across the nation."
6
"Failure is not an option, winning or learning are the options."
6
"If we don't succeed we run the risk of failure."
6
"Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles."
6
"Don't you see? You and he might never cross paths again. Of course, a chance meeting could occur, and I hope it happens. I really do, for your sake. But realistically speaking, you have to see there's a huge possibility you'll never be able to meet him again. And even if you do meet, he might already be married to somebody else. He might have two kids. Isn't that so? And in that case, you may have to live the rest of your life alone, never being joined with the one person you love in all the world. Don't you find that scary?"
6
"In Iraq we must succeed. Failure is not an option."
6
"It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression."
6
"He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being."
5
"This dullness of vision regarding the importance of the general welfare to the individual is the measure of the failure of our schools and churches to teach the spiritual significance of genuine democracy."
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