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Failure Quotes

"Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles."

"Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles."

Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian Leader

Failure, Forget, Ideals, Objectives

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"Undoubtedly, failure is growth in pain's disguise."

"Undoubtedly, failure is growth in pain's disguise."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

Failure, Truth, Inspirational, Wisdom, Power

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"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."

"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."

Audre Lorde, American Poet

Failure, Strength, Difference, First

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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."

"Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility."

Susan Sontag, American Author

Failure, Judgment, Radical, Sensibility

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"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."

"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."

Carroll Quigley, American Writer

Failure, Christianity, Influence, Spain

47

"Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet."

"Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet."

Robert H. Schuller, American Clergyman

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"If you're 40 years old and you've never had a failure, you've been deprived."

"If you're 40 years old and you've never had a failure, you've been deprived."

Gloria Swanson, American Actress

Failure, Old, Years

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"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."

"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."

Irving Babbitt, American Critic

Failure, Nations

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"Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street."

"Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street."

Zig Ziglar, American Author

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"It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression."

"It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression."

Eric Hoffer, American Writer

Failure, Expression

46

"Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats; then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure."

"Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats; then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure."

Fred Allen, American Comedian

Failure, Church, First

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"Failure doesn't kill you... it increases your desire to make something happen."

"Failure doesn't kill you... it increases your desire to make something happen."

Kevin Costner, American Actor

Failure, Desire

45

"By virtually any measure, the record of the Republican Majority is an appalling failure."

"By virtually any measure, the record of the Republican Majority is an appalling failure."

Sheila Jackson Lee, American Politician

Failure, Majority, Measure, Republican

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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."

"He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being."

Paul Tillich, German Theologian

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"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."

"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."

Elias Canetti, Swiss Author

Failure, Difference, World

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"If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless."

"If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless."

Robert H. Schuller, American Clergyman

Failure, Possibility, Victory

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"It's a failure of national vision when you regard children as weapons, and talents as materials you can mine, assay, and fabricate for profit and defense."

"It's a failure of national vision when you regard children as weapons, and talents as materials you can mine, assay, and fabricate for profit and defense."

John Hersey, American Writer

Failure, Vision, Children, Defense

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"One failure is worth seven and a half successes."

"One failure is worth seven and a half successes."

Eli Khamarov, American Author

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"A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else."

"A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else."

John Burroughs, American Author

Failure, Blame, Man

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"Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day."

"Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day."

Jim Rohn, American Businessman

Failure, Day, Errors, Judgment

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"Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure."

"Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure."

Tommy Lasorda, American Coach

Failure, Pressure, Thinking, Vocabulary

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"My only failure was the restaurant in Myrtle Beach. I kept it open for four years. It was in a tourist town, it was only busy four and half, five months of the year. But the bills kept coming all year."

"My only failure was the restaurant in Myrtle Beach. I kept it open for four years. It was in a tourist town, it was only busy four and half, five months of the year. But the bills kept coming all year."

Mickey Gilley, American Musician

Failure, Beach, Months, Open

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"Never permit failure to become a habit."

"Never permit failure to become a habit."

William Frederick Book, American Psychologist

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"You accept failure as a possible outcome of some of the experiments. If you don't get failures, you're not pushing hard enough on the objectives."

"You accept failure as a possible outcome of some of the experiments. If you don't get failures, you're not pushing hard enough on the objectives."

John Poindexter, American Public Servant

Failure, Objectives

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"In our tabulation of psychoanalytic results, we have classed those who stopped treatment together with those not improved. This appears to be reasonable; a patient who fails to finish his treatment, and is not improved, is surely a therapeutic failure."

"In our tabulation of psychoanalytic results, we have classed those who stopped treatment together with those not improved. This appears to be reasonable; a patient who fails to finish his treatment, and is not improved, is surely a therapeutic failure."

Hans Eysenck, German Psychologist

Failure, Results, Treatment

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"Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man."

"Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man."

William Howard Taft, American President

Failure, Credit, Man, May

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"Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness."

"Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness."

Oprah Winfrey, American Entertainer

Failure, Greatness, Queen

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"A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it."

"A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

Failure, Being, Enemies, First

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"Well, I think it's too early to call Fallujah a failure."

"Well, I think it's too early to call Fallujah a failure."

Charles Schumer, American Politician

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"But whatever my failure, I have this thing to remember - that I was a pioneer in my profession, just as my grandfathers were in theirs, in that I was the first man in this section to earn his living as a writer."

"But whatever my failure, I have this thing to remember - that I was a pioneer in my profession, just as my grandfathers were in theirs, in that I was the first man in this section to earn his living as a writer."

Robert E. Howard, American Writer

Failure, First, Living, Man

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"Mission accomplished? The mission in Iraq, as laid out by President Bush and Vice President Cheney, has failed."

"Mission accomplished? The mission in Iraq, as laid out by President Bush and Vice President Cheney, has failed."

Robert Byrd, American Politician

Failure, Iraq, Mission, President, Vice

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"A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection."

"A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection."

Arthur Bloch, American Author

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"All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure."

"All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure."

Carl Sandburg, American Poet

Failure, Actions

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"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."

"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."

Henry Kravis, American Businessman

Failure, Nothing, Wrong

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"Even as far back as when I started acting at 14, I know I've never considered failure."

"Even as far back as when I started acting at 14, I know I've never considered failure."

Jennifer Lawrence, American Actress

Failure, Acting

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"I have always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure."

"I have always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure."

T. Boone Pickens, American Businessman

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"We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse."

"We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse."

Rudyard Kipling, English Writer

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"Testing leads to failure, and failure leads to understanding."

"Testing leads to failure, and failure leads to understanding."

Burt Rutan, American Scientist

Failure, Testing, Understanding

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"Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure."

"Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure."

George Edward Woodberry, American Critic

Failure, Defeat

39

"Failure is a word that I simply don't accept."

"Failure is a word that I simply don't accept."

John H. Johnson, American Businessman

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"The fact that The Bridge contains folk lore and other material suitable to the epic form need not therefore prove its failure as a long lyric poem, with interrelated sections."

"The fact that The Bridge contains folk lore and other material suitable to the epic form need not therefore prove its failure as a long lyric poem, with interrelated sections."

Hart Crane, American Poet

Failure, Fact, Folk

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"There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house."

"There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house."

Eric Hoffer, American Writer

Failure, Loneliness

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"Any man who has $10,000 left when he dies is a failure."

"Any man who has $10,000 left when he dies is a failure."

Errol Flynn, Australian Actor

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"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."

"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."

Henry A. Wallace, American Vice President

Failure, Vision, Churches, Democracy

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"A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying."

"A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying."

John Burroughs, American Author

Failure, Blame, Man, Trying

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"Our system provides for a winner to take office on January 20th, and he is expected to take command of the ship of state. Failure to do so, characterized by hesitation and indecision, will harm the national interest."

"Our system provides for a winner to take office on January 20th, and he is expected to take command of the ship of state. Failure to do so, characterized by hesitation and indecision, will harm the national interest."

Richard V. Allen, American Public Servant

Failure, Harm, Hesitation, Indecision

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"Her failure was a useful preliminary to success."

"Her failure was a useful preliminary to success."

Edith Wharton, American Author

Failure, Learning, Progress, Resilience

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"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."

"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."

Rosalynn Carter, American First Lady

Failure, Goals, Possibility, Risk

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"There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions."

"There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions."

Orlando Bloom, English Actor

Failure, Difference, Disaster

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"The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure."

"The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure."

B. C. Forbes, Scottish Journalist

Failure, Conscience, Man

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