Failure Quotes

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I don't lose any sleep at night over the potential for failure. I cannot even spell the word. — James Mattis
We might sometimes reflect and recall that the purpose of all our science, technology, industry, manufacturing, commerce, and finance is celebration, planetary celebration. This is… — Thomas Berry
Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my… — Rabindranath Tagore
Many people keep deploring the low level of formal education in the United states (as defined by, say, math grades). Yet these fail to realize… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
When we want to do something while unconsciously certain to fail, we seek advice so we can blame someone else for the failure. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
It does not matter how frequently something succeeds if failure is too costly to bear. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
If you start thinking that only your biggest and shiniest moments count, you're setting yourself up to feel like a failure most of the time. — Chris Hadfield
A century of partial tolerance gave us Jews access to your world. In that period the great attempt was made, by advance guards of reconciliation,… — Maurice Samuel
A president who is burdened with a failed and unpopular war, and who has lost the trust of the country, simply can no longer govern.… — Glenn Greenwald
So many businesses get worried about looking like they might make a mistake, they become afraid to take any risk. Companies are set up so… — Mark Zuckerberg
Even today, after the second failure of another world war, perhaps one can speak of a third war, one fought piecemeal, with crimes, massacres, destruction, — Pope Francis
All I can do will only ever be a faint image of what I see and my success will always be less than my failure… — Alberto Giacometti
I will never know how you see red and you will never know how I see it. But this separation of consciousness is recognized only… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Well, there's no guarantee of failure in life like happiness in high school. — David Henry Hwang
It is failure that guides evolution; perfection provides no incentive for improvement, and nothing is perfect. — Colson Whitehead
I was shocked when I found out who the biggest failure in the Bible actually is...The biggest one in the whole Bible is God...I mean,… — Kenneth Copeland
There is no such thing as an inevitable war. If war comes it will be from failure of human wisdom. — Bonar Law
In a society in which individualism is becoming rampant, people more and more believe that they are the center of the world. Such a belief… — Martin Seligman
I was the first records editor at Rolling Stone, and there were no rules. There was nothing to fall back on as to how do… — Greil Marcus
You find out a lot about yourself through athletics. If you're cut out to be a winner or a failure or a quitter, athletics will… — Steve Ovett

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