#failures

What helped me most were my failures and slumps - when I couldn't get work, people weren't interested in me or had written me off. ↗

— Frank Langella

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It takes 10 million failures to find the right stuff. ↗

— George Lindsey

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Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures. ↗

— Vince Lombardi

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You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

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All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing. ↗

— Moliere

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In other words, don't expect to always be great. Disappointments, failures and setbacks are a normal part of the lifecycle of a unit or a company and what the leader has to do is constantly be up and say 'we have a problem, let's go and get it'. ↗

— Colin Powell

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For four years, I listened to stories of intelligence failures, and it wasn't due to incompetence of anyone in the system, but that the system is so arcane. ↗

— Charles F. Bass

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It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

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The deepest failures any fiction writer is likely to have are failures of not quite comprehending the truth of the story that he or she is telling. ↗

— Richard Russo

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It's frustrating; terrorism is rare and largely ineffectual, yet we regularly magnify the effects of both their successes and failures by terrorizing ourselves. ↗

— Bruce Schneier

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