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" Tragedy in life normally comes with betrayal and compromise, and trading on your integrity and not having dignity in life. That's really where failure comes. "
Tom Cochrane
Integrity
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" The draconian spirit that seeks to enhance penalties and to lower the age at which juveniles will be tries as adults, is part of the 'whole cloth' of three strikes. Our failure to address the depair of our inner-city youth is only delayed by our over-confidence in a stance that is 'tougher than thou.' "
Greg Boyle
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" 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. "
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" The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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" Failure's a marker of success in its own right because you went out and tried something... If you really don't want to fail, go find a comfortable chair and stay there. Just don't go out and do anything. "
Whitney Wolfe
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" Failure saves lives. In the airline industry, every time a plane crashes the probability of the next crash is lowered by that. The Titanic saved lives because we're building bigger and bigger ships. So these people died, but we have effectively improved the safety of the system, and nothing failed in vain. "
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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" People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure. "
Lao Tzu
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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. "
Paul Tillich
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" It's your own fear of failure that stops you from doing things. "
Anupam Kher
You
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Own
" Not failure, but low aim is sin. "
Benjamin E. Mays
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" If your goal is to lose 10 pounds, you may wake up each day with failure in mind because the goal is hard to reach, and you are progressing only by small amounts. It takes up all your willpower. I recommend that instead of a goal, you have a system. "
Scott Adams
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Day
" Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future. "
Swami Sivananda
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Failure
" No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes. "
Greil Marcus
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Failure
" The democratic system is challenged by the failure in television because our evening news programmes have gone for an attempt to entertain as much as to inform in the desperate fight for ratings. "
Walter Cronkite
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Television
" Surviving failure is one thing. Surviving success is... is challenging, with the consequences and what you lose along the way. "
George C. Wolfe
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Way
Success
" Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success. "
Kenneth L. Pike
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" Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery. "
Winston Churchill
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" I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success. "
Tennessee Williams
Success
Work
Failure
" Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success, and in some ways it's better to have failure at the beginning of your career, or your life. "
Michael Crawford
Success
You
Beginning
" It would be great to be able to pass on to someone all of the successes, the failures, and the knowledge that one has had. To help someone, avoid all the fire, pain and anxiety would be wonderful. "
Sylvester Stallone
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Fire
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" The hippy movement was a failure. "
Joe Strummer
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Hippy
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" The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best. "
George Eliot
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" The study of literature threatens to become a kind of paleontology of failure, and criticism a supercilious psychoanalysis of authors. "
John Updike
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" When I was growing up, Brandy was TV star, reality star, a pop star, a Cover girl, Grammy winner, had her own Brandy doll, and was the first African American to play Disney princess Cinderella. Most importantly, she is a survivor. Many only judge and remember a person's most recent failure. "
Niecy Nash
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" I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying. "
Michael Jordan
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" The failure to invest in youth reflects a lack of compassion and a colossal failure of common sense. "
Coretta Scott King
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" Cheerfully fessing up to our failures turns crazy mind off, humility and compassion on. I learned this in a karate dojo that had a strange tradition. Everyone there loved recounting failure stories, and after an evening of smacking one another, we'd sit and have a beer while the students swapped tales of martial arts disaster. "
Martha Beck
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Failure
" War is failure of diplomacy. "
John Dingell
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War
" You want to ensure people can do it right 99 percent of time. When we have to fire one of our surgical trainees, it is never because they don't have the physical skills but because they don't have the moral skills - to practise and admit failure. "
Atul Gawande
Fire
You
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" At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings. "
Hector Berlioz
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" Lincoln made mistakes. Roosevelt made mistakes. Eisenhower made mistakes. The Battle of the Bulge was the biggest intelligence failure in American military history, much bigger than any in Vietnam or now. We didn't know that the Soviets were moving 400,000 or 500,000 troops. We missed it. "
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