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Quotes tagged ‘Failure’
Every problem is an opportunity in disguise.
— Ben Edlund, Joss Whedon, Inara Serra, Morena Baccarin, imdb.com
Your failure does not define you.
If a man is not smart enough to be able to use whatever is in front of him and still make it work...well, then...that’s just a failure of the imagination.
To all those who tweet at me saying that they 'hope I fail,' I have failed many times many times in my life. But more importantly, I’ve learned from every setback, proudly own up to my mistakes, grown from disappointments, and now I’m a glamazon bitch ready for the runway.
No one is born kind. It takes work. That work requires thought, intention, and sometimes it means not indulging in everything you feel. Anyone who does that work will sometimes fail because failure always goes hand in hand with trying. My anger stems from the throngs of people unwilling to do the wo…
Sometimes there are no words, no clever quotes to neatly sum up what's happened that day. Sometimes you do everything right, everything exactly right, and still you feel like you failed. Did it need to end that way? Could something have been done to prevent the tragedy in the first place? Eighty-nin…
— Edward Allen Bernero, Aaron Hotchner, Thomas Gibson, imdb.com
Look where we are, Jax. Is this what you wanted? Piles of bodies. Relationships destroyed. And the guy you were going after is still alive.
— Roberto Patino, Mike Daniels, Kurt Sutter, August Marks, Billy Brown, imdb.com
It doesn't matter how many times you have failed, you only have to be right once.
I've learned that it doesn't matter how many times you failed. You only have to be right once. I tried to sell powdered milk. I was an idiot lots of times, and I learned from them all.
Understanding that you can’t truly take credit for your successes, nor truly blame others for their failures will humble you and make you more compassionate. Empathy is intuitive, but is also something you can work on, intellectually.
Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.
The only time you must not fail is the last time you try.
Don't fear failure. Fear being in the exact same place next year as you are today.
What do you call a cow that can’t produce milk? An udder failure.
It’s really easy to put the blame on someone else and cry sabotage instead of admitting to your own failure.
Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
My personal poetry is a failure. I do not want to be a person. I want to be unbearable.
I only cite these examples to show that it’s all too true—no one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend.
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.