Failure Quotes

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If at first you don't succeed-try, try again. Don't think of it as failure. Think of it as timed-release success. — Robert Orben
Extemporaneous speaking should be practised [sic] and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in other… — Abraham Lincoln
The void created by the failure to communicate is soon filled with poison, drivel and misrepresentation. — C. Northcote Parkinson
Urging humans to be superhumans, on pain of death and torture, is the urging of terrible self-abasement at their repeated and inevitable failure to keep… — Christopher Hitchens
If you cry ''Forward'' you must be sure to make clear the direction in which to go. Don't you see that if you fail to… — Anton Chekhov
To live moment to moment is the life of meditation. Then life becomes spontaneous without any effort; then nobody can make you miserable, nobody can… — Rajneesh
Plan and execute your first failure so that you no longer have to fear it. — John C. Maxwell
Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them. — John C. Maxwell
Failure is not the outcome - failure is not trying. Don't be afraid to fail. — Sara Blakely
Man's inability to communicate is a result of his failure to listen effectively. — Carl Rogers
I don't want to feel like a failure to my daughter. She's the best thing I've ever done. Buffy - pretty great and all, but… — Sarah Michelle Gellar
Neo-Darwinian language and conceptual structure itself ensures scientific failure: Major questions posed by zoologists cannot be answered from inside the neo-Darwinian straitjacket. Such questions include,… — Lynn Margulis
Oppression involves a failure of the imagination: the failure to imagine the full humanity of other human beings. — Margaret Atwood
Intelligent media companies strive to provide both intellectual and comedy programs, groundbreaking and reflective articles, art house and popular movies. Not to be open minded… — Lachlan Murdoch
If gun laws in fact worked, the sponsors of this type of legislation should have no difficulty drawing upon long lists of examples of criminal… — Orrin Hatch
Jesus was not famous in his day. If there were no Bible, there would have been no record of him. The record belongs to his… — Rajneesh
There is no failure in life. It all depends how you take things. If you are desiring too much - you want to reach too… — Rajneesh
I believe the real difference between success and failure in a corporation can be very often traced to the question of how well the organization… — Thomas Watson, Jr.
Remember remain alert that you don't get too much attached to the accidental - and all is accidental except your consciousness. Except your awareness, all… — Rajneesh
They who lack talent expect things to happen without effort. They ascribe failure to a lack of inspiration or ability, or to misfortune, rather than… — Eric Hoffer

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