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Failure Quotes
"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."
"Fail big. Fail better.Try again. Without looking for a shelter."
"Working mothers are just as likely to want to conform to a standard of perfection and just as likely to suffer from their failure to meet it as their stay-at-home counterparts."
"Failure is not the end, it is an opportunity to begin again."
"All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure."
"Other countries, such as Israel, successfully employ behavior detection techniques at their airports, but the bloated, ineffective bureaucracy of TSA has produced another security failure for U.S. transportation systems."
"The Soviet Union did not achieve victory over the West, so was my information inadequate to help them to victory, or did it play no particular role in their failure to achieve victory?"
"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."
"There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object."
"If mediocrity is your benchmark, you always sit on the bench!"
"Humanitarian missions are little different from any other public enterprise, diplomacy included, which is susceptible of misinterpretation by the public, hence ultimately of failure."
"There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see."
"Testing leads to failure, and failure leads to understanding."
"We decided to try in vitro, because both Peter and I felt we couldn't handle another failure. When I miscarried after that, we had to come to terms with the possibility that this wasn't meant to be."
"Without doing one cannot fail. But one cannot succeed either."
"The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure."
"A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself."
"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."
"Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it."
"I failed to make the chess team because of my height."
"Failure is your inability to recognize that you have made the same mistakes again. Making a mistake is normal, it turns abnormal when it's not recognized!"
"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."
"Philanthropic colonization is a failure. National colonization will succeed."
"There's only one thing that can guarantee our failure, and that's if we quit."
"Greed squeezes your dreams into a portable size, so that failure can easily carry them to dump somewhere."
"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."
"To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the most difficult of all, and so important, withal, that nations have perished from their failure to achieve it."
"This attempt to isolate cell constituents might have been a failure if they had been destroyed by the relative brutality of the technique employed. But this did not happen."
"Failure is not the deterrent for the next try. Rather, it is information that empowers the next step."
"African Americans make up about 13 percent of the U.S. population but comprise 32 percent of patients treated for kidney failure, giving them a kidney failure rate that is 4.2 times greater than that of white Americans."
"I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win."
"As I said there is nothing wrong with failing. Pick yourself up and try it again. You never are going to know how good you really are until you go out and face failure."
"I think I've failed every test I've ever taken. If there was a failure I would have been it."
"Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure."
"Mission accomplished? The mission in Iraq, as laid out by President Bush and Vice President Cheney, has failed."
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