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Quotations by Subject: Failure (31 quotes)

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The great liability of the engineer compared to men of other professions is that his works are out in the open where all can see them. His acts, step by step, are in hard substance. He cannot bury his mistakes in the grave like the doctors. He cannot argue them into thin air or blame the judge like the lawyers. He cannot, like the architects, cover his failures with trees and vines. He cannot, like the politicians, screen his sort-comings by blaming his opponents and hope the people will forget. The engineer simply cannot deny he did it. If his works do not work, he is damned.: Herbert Hoover (1874 - 1964), Opening Quote of Chapter 5, Introduction to Aeronautics: A Design Perspective by Steven Brandt et Al.
The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help them or concluded that you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.: Colin Powell (1937 - )
Besides, what matters, when it comes to self-control, isn't so much willpower as vision-the ability to see the future, so that the long-run consequences of our short-run choices are vividly clear. In that sense, our shortcomings in this arena are really failures of imagination.: Daniel Akst, We Have Met the Enemy: Self-Control in an Age of Excess, 2011
I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because it's easier, isn't it? Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.: David Nicholls, One Day, 2010
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It's interesting, on your second day of existence, to realize that your father is going to blame all the future failures of his life on you.: Josh Lieb, I am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to be Your Class President, 2009
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Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure , than to take rank with those poor spires who neither enjoy much nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory or defeat.: Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919)
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Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure , than to take rank with those poor spires who neither enjoy much nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory or defeat.: Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919)
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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary, it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people cruel and bitter.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.: Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
We are all failures - at least the best of us are.: James M. Barrie (1860 - 1937)

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