943 Failure Quotes for You to Enjoy

By the time I was a young man, I lived with two deep struggles: I longed to become a cricketer, and I performed miserably in school. Cricket and tennis were all that I lived for. In India, this was a formula for failure. Ravi Zacharias

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One of the things that happens that's challenging within the democratic process is that people say, 'Look at this failure, so we should totally change this whole thing.' And then you add in tons of bureaucratic process and checks and balances, and all of a sudden, it doesn't work that well. Reid Hoffman

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When you're doing something that you think - that you know - is a breakthrough, you cannot obsess about the possibility of failure. That is just not a great place to go. Renee James

Great Failure You Think Possibility About Something Great Place Obsess Know Doing Go Just Cannot Place Breakthrough

Most girls are taught to avoid risk and failure. We're taught to smile pretty, play it safe, get all A's. Boys, on the other hand, are taught to play rough, swing high, crawl to the top of the monkey bars, and then just jump off headfirst. Reshma Saujani

Smile Failure Girl Monkey Other Top High Pretty Risk Most Safe Boy Hand Off Jump Get Just Taught Crawl Then Avoid Bars Rough Swing Play

Much worse than the unavoidable inefficiencies of large government is the failure to fund the government we need. Richard Cohen

Government Failure Worse Unavoidable Than Much Large Fund Need

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

There's no question that Kennedy was an utter failure as a passer of laws during his proverbial thousand days. Rick Perlstein

Failure Thousand Laws No Question Days Proverbial His Question Utter Kennedy

We know there is no such thing as freedom without the risk of failure. Rick Perry

Freedom Failure Risk Know Without Thing

I believe there's only one regulation in life that works: failure. Rick Santelli

Life Failure Believe Only Regulation Works

I've been doing a few interviews since the loss of the SpaceX Dragon on its way to the Space Station. Each one very quickly questions the viability of what they call commercial space in light of the failure. I tell them space is hard: this is what happens early in a program with new technology. Rick Tumlinson

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Once you can accept failure, you can have fun and success. Rickey Henderson

Success Failure You Have Fun Once Accept Fun

Having written both comedy and drama, comedy's harder because the fear of failure's so much stronger. When you write a scene and you see it cut together, and it doesn't make you laugh, it hurts in a way that failed drama doesn't. Failed drama, it's all, 'That's not that compelling,' but failed comedy just lays there. Rob Thomas

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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. Robert E. Howard

Failure Man Remember First Whatever Living Earn Section Writer Were His Pioneer Just Grandfathers Profession Thing

George Orwell's science-fiction classic 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' wasn't a failure because the future it predicted failed to come to pass. Rather, it was a resounding success because it helped us prevent that future. Robert J. Sawyer

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Those on the downside of rising economic inequality generally do not want government policies that look like handouts. They typically do not want the government to make the tax system more progressive, to impose punishing taxes on the rich, in order to give the money to them. Redistribution feels demeaning. It feels like being labeled a failure. Robert J. Shiller

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Don't think of it as failure. Think of it as time-released success. Robert Orben

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It's not compatible to expect multilateralism to work and, at the same time, to expect to walk out with everything you wanted. This is a recipe for failure. If we prize the system, we have to come knowing that we will need to make compromises. Sometimes painful compromises. Roberto Azevedo

Work Time Failure You Sometimes Walk Will Recipe Everything System Out Compromises Come Knowing Make Expect Prize Same Same Time Wanted Painful Compatible Need

In most negotiations, you can't attribute success or failure in negotiations to one side. Roberto Azevedo

Success Failure You Side Negotiations Most Attribute

So many amongst us live in the past rather than loving the present and building a brilliant future. Some people stay stuck for years over something they did or a failure they've experienced. Sad. A life is a terrible thing to waste. Robin S. Sharma

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A film's success or failure is strictly on the director's shoulders. Robin Tunney

Success Failure Director Strictly Shoulders Film

I knew that there were several, among African-American leaders, who had been put out by me because of my failure or reluctance to endorse Sen. Kerry. Rodney Alexander

Me Failure Several Out Reluctance Had Put Knew Leaders Because Were Been Endorse African-American Who Among Kerry

Most people think of success and failure as opposites, but they both are products of the same process. Roger von Oech

Success Failure People Opposites Think Both Most Same Process Products

I'm scared of failure so much more than any of the other girls I compete against that I work so much harder than they possibly could. I'm totally down with spiders and frogs and heights and snakes - everything; I'm cool with it. Ronda Rousey

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