Quotes with failure

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  • Arthur Bloch A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.
    Arthur Bloch
    American writer, author of the Murphy's Law books (1948 - )
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  • Arnold J. Toynbee A life which does not go into action is a failure.
    Arnold J. Toynbee
    British historian and author (1889 - 1975)
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  • John Burroughs A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.
    John Burroughs
    American writer (1837 - 1921)
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  • Ralph Waldo Trine A man carries his success or his failure with him, it does not depend on outside conditions.
    Ralph Waldo Trine
    American writer (1866 - 1958)
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  • Elmer G. Letterman A man may fall many times but he won't be a failure until he says someone pushed him.
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  • Robert Browning A minute's success pays the failure of years.
    Robert Browning
    English poet (1812 - 1889)
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  • Nicolas Chamfort A person of intellect without energy added to it, is a failure.
    Nicolas Chamfort
    French writer, journalist and playwright (1741 - 1794)
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  • Ambrose Bierce A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Alexandre Dumas père A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
    Alexandre Dumas père
    French writer (1802 - 1870)
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  • Jean-Paul Sartre All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    French writer, philosopher and Nobel laureate in literature (1964) (1905 - 1980)
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  • Alberto Giacometti 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 or perhaps equal to the failure.
    Alberto Giacometti
    Swiss sculptor, painter, draftsman and printmaker (1901 - 1966)
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  • Peter Carey All our heroes, all our great stories are about failure.
    Peter Carey
    Australian writer (1943 - )
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  • Tony Benn All war represents a failure of diplomacy.
    Tony Benn
    British Labor politician (1925 - 2014)
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  • Susan Sontag Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Oscar Wilde As a wicked man I am a complete failure. Why, there are lots of people who say I have never really done anything wrong in the whole course of my life. Of course they only say it behind my back.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Albert J. Nock As might be supposed, my parents were quite poor, but we somehow never seemed to lack anything we needed, and I never saw a trace of discontent or a failure in cheerfulness over their lot in life, as indeed over anything.
    Albert J. Nock
    American libertarian author (1870 - 1945)
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  • John Haggai Attempt something so impossible that unless God is in it, it's doomed to failure.
    John Haggai
    American evangelist (1924 - )
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  • Bodhidharma But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.
    The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma
    Bodhidharma
    semi-legendary Buddhist monk
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  • H.G. Wells Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
    H.G. Wells
    British-born American author (1866 - 1946)
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  • George Edward Woodberry Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
    George Edward Woodberry
    American poet and literary critic (1855 - 1930)
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