Failure Quotes

My teacher said my brain was the size of a pea. He made my life miserable by singling me out in the classroom as a failure. Willard Wigan
Life Teacher Me Failure Made My Life Miserable Out Classroom He Said Singling Brain Size
I always say that failure was my friend. I learned nothing at school, so I just lived in my own world. Willard Wigan
Failure World School Own Nothing Say My Friend My Own Learned Always Friend Just Lived
Never permit failure to become a habit. William Frederick Book
Failure Become Habit Never Permit
Sometimes people call me a success for all the reasons that make me think I'm a failure. William Hurt
Success Me Failure People Sometimes Think Make Call Reasons
Everybody is an expert on one thing - that's what I learned in my high school journalism class - and that's, of course, his own life. And everybody deserves to live and have his story told. And if it doesn't seem like an interesting story, then that's the failure of the listener, or the journalist who retells it badly. William T. Vollmann
Life Failure Class School Journalist Own Live Everybody High One Thing High School Seem Badly Journalism Like Learned Course His Listener Expert Story Interesting Then Who Deserves Thing
Failure has gone to his head. Wilson Mizner
Failure Gone Head His
My story of success and failure is not just about music and being famous. It's about living and loving and trying to find purpose in this crazy world. Wynonna Judd
Success Music Crazy Failure World Crazy World Living Find About Purpose Trying Just Being Famous Story Being Famous Loving
There is failure in every industry; there is failure in every step. It's just that we are working in an industry where everything is just out there; that is why it looks so magnified. But failure is a part of life. Yami Gautam
Life Failure Every Every Step Everything Out Magnified Part Step Looks Industry Just Where Working Why
Every book I've written has been a different attempt to understand something, and the success or failure of the previous one is irrelevant. I write the book I want. Yann Martel
Success Failure Book Every Has-Been Something Previous Write Attempt Written Understand Been Irrelevant Different Want
If I didn't have children, I think my life would be a failure. Yann Martel
Life Failure My Life Think Would Would-Be Children
I feel bad that I'm the one always blamed for the failure of the space business - even though there are problems with government policy toward the space business. Yi So-Yeon
Government Failure Business Space Problems Though Bad Blamed Feel Toward Policy Always Even
We have actually experienced in recent months a dramatic demonstration of an unprecedented intelligence failure, perhaps the most significant intelligence failure in the history of the United States. Zbigniew Brzezinski
Failure History Intelligence Dramatic Months States Significant Unprecedented Perhaps Most Demonstration The History Of Experienced United United States Actually Recent
Critics can get you critical acclaim - nothing more than that. Success or failure depends on the public. Suniel Shetty
Success Failure You Nothing Critical Critics More Acclaim Than Get Depends Public
So while I will never minimize the costs involved in military action, I am convinced that a failure to act in Libya would have carried a far greater price for America. Barack Obama
Failure I Am Will Action Military Carried Libya Minimize Would Costs Price Never Involved Greater Am America While Far Convinced Act Military Action
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. Xavier Becerra
Failure Giving White Kidney About Percent Rate Make Make Up Greater Up Times Than American Patients African African Americans Them Population Treated
The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen. P. J. O'Rourke
Success Failure Capitalism Idea Also Just Happen
The Bush Administration's failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world. Barack Obama
Friendship Failure Peace World Achieve Our Consistently Arab Arab World Has-Been Administration Both Badly Wrong Involved Well Israel Been Bush Standing Helping Palestinians Damaging
Michael Jordan taught me after our game of one-on-one: A loss is not a failure until you make an excuse. When excuses are no longer an option, you can focus your attention on the job you have to do, and not why it didn’t get done. Don Yaeger
Me Failure You Game Job Focus Our One-On-One Jordan Attention Longer Excuse Excuses Until Make Loss Michael Michael Jordan Option Get Done Taught After Your Why
I'm the only member of my family who didn't get a PhD. So, I'm like the failure of the family, cause all I have is a bachelor's, like a drop out. Adam Conover
Family Failure Cause Drop Bachelor Member Out Only Drop-Out Like Get Who PhD
The failings in Afghanistan don't fall on the shoulders of the American service personnel trying to complete their mission. The failure falls on military leadership unable to adapt to irregular warfare, and a Congress that blindly continues to fund failure. Erik Prince
Service Leadership Failure Blindly Fall Congress Military Complete Unable Failings Mission Falls Trying American Irregular Afghanistan Warfare Personnel Shoulders Fund Adapt
Life is like a circle and you have to know when to move on. Success and failure are a part and parcel of it. Prosenjit Chatterjee
Life Success Failure You Circle Move On Parcel Part Part And Parcel Like Know Move
Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease, where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function, the end result of which is kidney failure. Xavier Becerra
Failure Experience Result Chronic Kidney Deterioration More End End Result Disease Gradual Patients Where Which Function Twenty Million
So long as TARP money is wrapped up in GM, the company will never shake its 'Government Motors' image. That label, as competitors and GM employees are keenly aware, is code for one thing: 'GM is a failure.' Edward Whitacre, Jr.
Government Failure Money Will Long Employees One Thing Wrapped GM Shake Never Label Motors Up TARP Company Code Aware Thing Image Competitors
In 'Condition Zero,' failure has greater consequences and success offers greater rewards. Randy Pitchford
Success Failure Consequences Greater Condition Offers Rewards Zero
The Communist bloc of old was a study in the failure of failure. Losers in the Soviet economy were the people at the end of the long lines for consumer goods. Worse losers were the people who had spent hours getting to the head of the line, only to be told that the goods were unavailable. P. J. O'Rourke
Failure People Old Long Worse Spent Only Consumer Had Head Study Goods Economy Hours Line Were Losers Lines End Soviet Getting Communist Who
The average member of the public thinks of 'business' as an impersonal corporate entity owned by the very rich and managed by overpaid executives. There is an almost total failure to appreciate that 'business' actually embraces - in one way or another - most Americans. Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
Failure Business Rich Corporate Way Member Embraces Total One-Way Entity Impersonal Almost Most Executives Another Overpaid Very American Owned Public Average Actually Thinks Appreciate
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