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Quotes with tag Failure:

Author	Quote	Rank
Winston Churchill	Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.	6
Thomas A. Edison	I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.	50
Ernest Hemingway	But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.	99
Donald Trump	Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.	101
Conor McGregor	I'm not going to get somewhere and say, 'OK, I'm done.' Success is never final; I'll just keep on going. The same way as failure never being fatal. Just keep going. I'm going to the stars and then past them.	101
J. K. Rowling	It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.	101
LeBron James	You have to be able to accept failure to get better.	101
Andy Murray	In tennis, it is not the opponent you fear, it is the failure itself, knowing how near you were but just out of reach.	101
Calvin Coolidge	Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.	101
James Joyce	Mistakes are the portals of discovery.	101
Johnny Cash	You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.	101
Steve Harvey	Failure is a great teacher, and I think when you make mistakes and you recover from them and you treat them as valuable learning experiences, then you've got something to share.	101
Andy Grove	Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.	101
Benjamin E. Mays	The tragedy of life is often not in our failure, but rather in our complacency; not in our doing too much, but rather in our doing too little; not in our living above our ability, but rather in our living below our capacities.	101
Carol Gilligan	In the different voice of women lies the truth of an ethic of care, the tie between relationship and responsibility, and the origins of aggression in the failure of connection.	101
Cory Booker	If you look at great human civilizations, from the Roman Empire to the Soviet Union, you will see that most do not fail simply due to external threats but because of internal weakness, corruption, or a failure to manifest the values and ideals they espouse.	101
Don Shula	Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.	101
Harold Ramis	How one handles success or failure is determined by their early childhood.	101
Henry Cavill	As an outside; don't worry about failure, because failure will take care of itself. Focus on success.	101
Jennifer Lawrence	Even as far back as when I started acting at 14, I know I've never considered failure.	101
Malcolm Forbes	Failure is success if we learn from it.	101
Maxwell Maltz	Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act.	101
Morihei Ueshiba	Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something.	101
Natalie Massenet	Having the positive belief that it will all be O.K. just means that you hustle and make it work because failure is not even an option in your own mind.	101
Orison Swett Marden	There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.	101
Peter Berg	I've had great success and I've had catastrophic failure. It's really how you handle the rough stuff that defines you, I think.	101
Rosalynn Carter	You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you can be satisfied that you've tried. If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk.	101
Yves Chauvin	My motto is more, 'If you want to find something new, look for something new!' There is a certain amount of risk in this attitude, as even the slightest failure tends to be resounding, but you are so happy when you succeed that it is worth taking the risk.	101
Debra Winger	I was never afraid of failure after that because, I think, coming that close to death you get kissed. With the years, the actual experience of course fades, but the flavor of it doesn't. I just had a real sense of what choice do I have but to live fully?	101
Earl Wilson	Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.	101
Edward Dowden	Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.	101
Gifford Pinchot	Unless we practice conservation, those who come after us will have to pay the price of misery, degradation, and failure for the progress and prosperity of our day.	101
Henry Spencer	Progress requires setbacks; the only sure way to avoid failure is not to try.	101
Herbert Bayard Swope	I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.	101
John Malkovich	Failure's a natural part of life.	101
John Caudwell	The power of fear of failure, with will to win, is an incredible force. I don't think we should be worried about having a fear of failure; I think it's quite natural. If you surveyed any top businessman or any top athlete, I bet if they were truthful, they would all say they've got a fear of losing and a fear of failure.	101
Lee H. Hamilton	Foreign aid is neither a failure nor a panacea. It is, instead, an important tool of American policy that can serve the interests of the United States and the world if wisely administered.	101
Michael Buble	I have a tendency to sabotage relationships; I have a tendency to sabotage everything. Fear of success, fear of failure, fear of being afraid. Useless, good-for-nothing thoughts.	101
Michael Mullen	Too often we just look at these glistening successes. Behind them in many, many cases is failure along the way, and that doesn't get put into the Wikipedia story or the bio. Yet those failures teach you every bit as much as the successes.	101
Nate Lowman	I love language, and I love the failure of language.	101
Neel Mukherjee	In any restaurant, my eyes alight first, as if by an atavistic pull, on the meat dishes on the menu. In any dinner party I throw, I think of the non-vegetarian dish as central. I view this as a combination of weakness, greed and moral failure. Someone please help.	101
Peter Senge	Most leadership strategies are doomed to failure from the outset. As people have been noting for years, the majority of strategic initiatives that are driven from the top are marginally effective - at best.	101
Robert Fripp	There are no mistakes, save one: the failure to learn from a mistake.	101
Suki Waterhouse	Never be afraid of failure. And don't stop yourself from doing something you want to do because of what others might think. Only you know yourself best.	101
Sumner Redstone	Success is not built on success. It's built on failure. It's built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe.	101
Burt Rutan	Testing leads to failure, and failure leads to understanding.	101
Carol Alt	It's not about failure; it's about trying something and risking something for attaining your goal.	101
Christian Marclay	With improvisation, I just do it. It might be a total failure but then you just throw the dice again.	101
David Levering Lewis	The African Americans' story is one that seems to be a repeated commitment to a scenario for success and failure. With each failure, the blow is that much more traumatizing until finally one reaches a point where there is to some degree an internalization, skepticism, fatalism, and expectation that it isn't going to work.	101
Erin Cummings	At the end of the day, you are solely responsible for your success and your failure. And the sooner you realize that, you accept that, and integrate that into your work ethic, you will start being successful. As long as you blame others for the reason you aren't where you want to be, you will always be a failure.	101
Gary Player	We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts.	101
Grant Morrison	Burnout is grist to the mill. I write every day, for most of the day, so it's just about turning into metaphor whatever's going on in my life, in the world, and in my head. Every nightmare, every moment of grief or joy or failure, is a moment I can convert into cash via words.	101
Jay Samit	There is a huge difference between failing and failure. Failing is trying something that you learn doesn't work. Failure is throwing in the towel and giving up. True success comes from failing repeatedly and as quickly as possible, before your cash or your willpower runs out.	101
Mike Greenberg	Golf is a game of endless failure and frustration.	101
Rick Santelli	I believe there's only one regulation in life that works: failure.	101
Tony Jaa	Never be afraid to fail. Failure is only a stepping stone to improvement. Never be overconfident because that will block your improvement.	101
William Whewell	Every failure is a step to success.	101
Billy Dee Williams	Failure's not a bad thing. It builds character. It makes you stronger.	101
Chris Hedges	The failure to dissect the cause of war leaves us open for the next installment.	101
Elisabetta Canalis	At the end of the day I have always seen the end of my relationships as a personal failure. There is nothing ever pretty in saying goodbye.	101
George Canning	Indecision and delays are the parents of failure.	101
George Edmund Street	I think our failure in the production of good town churches of distinctive character must have struck you often, as it has me, when contrasted with our comparative success in country churches.	101
Greg Bear	Why do we capital-N Nerds love Mars so much? Because it's beautiful, it's tough, it's buried in our mythic, childhood memories. It's covered with human triumphs but also with sad stories of failure.	101
Herbert Kaufman	Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.	101
Hildegard Knef	Success and failure are greatly overrated. But failure gives you a whole lot more to talk about.	101
Peter Barris	Risk and failure is a part of our equation, and if you are seeing too little failure, you are actually probably not taking enough risks.	101
Shannen Doherty	I met Ashley two weeks before I married him. It was a joke-the most ridiculous thing I've ever done. Once I was married, I didn't want to be a failure, so I stuck it out for six months, which was about six months too long.	101
Ameen Rihani	There is no such thing as disappointment for those who continue to cherish the selflessness of which is born the noblest inner self. There is no such thing as failure for those who invest in the potentialities of the Ideal of the Soul.	101
Edmond H. Fischer	It is commonly said that a teacher fails if he has not been surpassed by his students. There has been no failure on our part in this regard considering how far they have gone.	101
John Paul DeJoria	Success unshared is failure.	101
Maude Adams	Don't be afraid of failure; be afraid of petty success.	101
Dale Dauten	Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.	101
Jim Sturgess	Love is such a powerful subject matter because it comes in so many different shapes and sizes. It's about timing, fate, failure, redemption.	101
Louis E. Boone	Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.	101
Monique Roffey	'The White Woman on the Green Bicycle' is a love story mapped onto an unfolding political tragedy: that of the failure of the Independence era in Trinidad.	101
Roger von Oech	Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach.	101
Colin R. Davis	The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.	101
David S. Rose	The entrepreneurial life is one of challenge, work, dedication, perseverance, exhilaration, agony, accomplishment, failure, sacrifice, control, powerlessness... but ultimately, extraordinary satisfaction.	101
Anne Baxter	I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.	101
Solomon Asch	Most social acts have to be understood in their setting and lose meaning if isolated... No error in thinking about social facts is more serious than the failure to see their place and function.	101
Mary Pickford	You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.	101
Montgomery Clift	Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.	101
Morton Hunt	Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more of their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination of people not to live without it.	101
Mark Ryan	You can't please everyone, but I've always felt you cannot ultimately lose if you give everything you try 110%. You'll always learn something useful, even from a failure, that can be applied to the next challenge or project.	101
Michael Savage	Don't take too much comfort in the fact that you're successful today because tomorrow could bring failure. There's no surety in life.	101
J. Maarten Troost	Escapism, we are led to believe, is evidence of a deficiency in character, a certain failure of temperament, and like so many -isms, it is to be strenuously avoided. 'How do you expect to get ahead?,' people ask. But the question altogether misses the point. The escapist doesn't want to get ahead. He simply wants to get away.	101
Jim Palmer	Losing is no disgrace if you've given your best.	101
Charlie Chaplin	Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.	102
Colin Powell	Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.	102
Paulo Coelho	Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.	102
Og Mandino	Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.	102
Oprah Winfrey	Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.	102
Rudyard Kipling	We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.	102
Brennan Manning	Suffering, failure, loneliness, sorrow, discouragement, and death will be part of your journey, but the Kingdom of God will conquer all these horrors. No evil can resist grace forever.	102
Charles Stanley	Fear stifles our thinking and actions. It creates indecisiveness that results in stagnation. I have known talented people who procrastinate indefinitely rather than risk failure. Lost opportunities cause erosion of confidence, and the downward spiral begins.	102
Davy Crockett	Heaven knows that I have done all that a mortal could do, to save the people, and the failure was not my fault, but the fault of others.	102
Dick Morris	There is a no-man's land in our politics: on the one hand, bounded by what we know to be true, and on the other hand, bounded by what the media says is politically correct. And that's where Donald Trump lives. And it's our failure to admit what we all know to be true in the guise of political correctness that fuels the Trump candidacy.	102
Felix Dennis	Overhead will eat you alive if not constantly viewed as a parasite to be exterminated. Never mind the bleating of those you employ. Hold out until mutiny is imminent before employing even a single additional member of staff. More startups are wrecked by overstaffing than by any other cause, bar failure to monitor cash flow.	102
Florence Scovel Shinn	Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.	102
George Edward Woodberry	Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.	102
Henry Paulson	For market discipline to constrain risk effectively, financial institutions must be allowed to fail. Under optimal financial regulatory and financial system infrastructures, such a failure would not threaten the overall system.	102
Kareena Kapoor Khan	I don't take success and failure seriously. The only thing I do seriously is march forward. If I fall, I get up and march again.	102
Michael Gove	As long as there are people in education making excuses for failure, cursing future generations with a culture of low expectations, denying children access to the best that has been thought and written, because Nemo and the Mister Men are more relevant, the battle needs to be joined.	102
Mike Krzyzewski	In high school, in sport, I had a coach who told me I was much better than I thought I was, and would make me do more in a positive sense. He was the first person who taught me not to be afraid of failure.	102
Oliver Hudson	His advice to me is basically to just love what you do and don't let the fear of failure stop you.	102
Wilma Rudolph	Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.	102
Aimee Bender	There's a spectrum of those moments of connection and the moments we fail to connect, going from super-large successes to failures. Success would be love, I guess, and failure could still be love, but the bad side; and loss.	102
Charlotte Whitton	It's how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success.	102
Dan Kaminsky	The reality of most software development is that the consequences of failure are simply nonexistent.	102
James Altucher	Honesty is the fastest way to prevent a mistake from turning into a failure.	102
James Cameron	If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success.	102
Rosalind Russell	Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.	102
Alexander Haig	You have to look at the history of the Middle East in particular. It has been one of failure and frustration, of feudalism and tribalism.	102
Ben Foster	It's okay to fail 'cause there's no failure, you're just informing the richness of your experience, and that's - that's the greatest gift you can possibly give yourself.	102
Hart Crane	The fact that The Bridge contains folk lore and other material suitable to the epic form need not therefore prove its failure as a long lyric poem, with interrelated sections.	102
Harvey Korman	And I went to New York and died; for 10 years I walked those pavements. I can't think of New York without feeling uncomfortable and feeling like a failure.	102
Mark Skousen	Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the civilized world, while a totally voluntary society represents its ultimate success.	102
Michael Ramsey	Ken Lay has, does and will continue to accept responsibility for the fall of Enron. He was the man at the controls. But failure is not a crime.	102
Thomas Haden Church	But all actors go through the process, it's hit and miss, you have achievement and failure.	102
Billy Childish	Failure is fantastic, because you meet yourself and get to know your limitations. This is how I express myself, and I can't do it any other way.	102
Dave Van Ronk	You can't be afraid of failure and you can't be afraid of success, because either one gets in the way of your work.	102
Edwin Markham	Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.	102
Erland Josephson	A man obsessed with failure has succeeded better than others in portraying it.	102
Gary Ryan Blair	Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure.	102
Harry Oppenheimer	It must not be forgotten in fairness to the National Government that apartheid is not just a policy of oppression but an attempt - in my opinion an attempt doomed to failure - to find an alternative to a policy of racial integration which is fair to both white and black.	102
Hector Berlioz	At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings.	102
Jimmy Connors	Rather than viewing a brief relapse back to inactivity as a failure, treat it as a challenge and try to get back on track as soon as possible.	102
Lev Yilmaz	Even in a gleefully negative comic, there is optimism, although it's slightly hidden: It comes out through a comic character's sheer tenacity. He keeps going and trying to find some sort of fulfillment regardless of his perpetual failure record. That's a form of hope, a form of optimism. Really hokey I know, but it's true.	102
Malcolm Mclaren	What matters is this: Being fearless of failure arms you to break the rules. In doing so, you may change the culture and just possibly, for a moment, change life itself.	102
M. Stanton Evans	As is well known, 'McCarthyism' was an alleged focus of political evil in the 1950s: Accusations of Communist taint, without factual basis; bogus lists of supposed Communists who never existed; failure in the end to produce even one provable Communist or Soviet agent, despite his myriad charges of subversion.	102
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow	The failure of women to have reached positions of leadership has been due in large part to social and professional discrimination.	102
Sean Lennon	There are only really a few stories to tell in the end, and betrayal and the failure of love is one of those good stories to tell.	102
Skylar Grey	Your personal life, your professional life, and your creative life are all intertwined. I went through a few very difficult years where I felt like a failure. But it was actually really important for me to go through that. Struggle, for me, is the most inspirational thing in the world at the end of the day - as long as you treat it that way.	102
Tim Harford	Failure is inevitable; it happens all the time in a complex economy.	102
Tom Cochrane	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.	102
Dominick Dunne	For me, the path of failure exceeded by far the joys of success. My plight was hopeless.	102
Millicent Fawcett	The assertion of failure coming from such persons does not mean that Mr. Mill failed to promote the practical success of those objects the advocacy of which forms the chief feature of his political writings.	102
Alan Price	The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan.	102
Bo Schembechler	If you think my career has been a failure because I have never won a national title, you have another thing coming.	102
Claire Messud	I believe that, in an ideal world, writers would feel free to write what matters to them without having to consider success, failure, the market, etc.	102
Mike Farrell	If you try to do your best there is no failure.	102
Rupert Holmes	Having in my life been bitten by the jaws of both victory and defeat, I must rush to add that success is to failure as butter pecan ice cream is to death.	102
Berthe Morisot	A love of nature is a consolation against failure.	102
Brian Harris	The failure of Socialism since 1945 is that whilst encouraging us all, the creators of wealth, to produce less through strikes, it has caused us all to demand a higher level of our own product.	102
Anne Baxter	It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.	102
Suzy Kassem	Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.	102
Mario Teguh	Lead yourself whenever your boss' leadership deteriorates. When your boss doesn't praise what you do, praise yourself. When your boss doesn't make you big, make yourself big. Remember, if you have done your best, failure does not count.	102
Arthur C. Danto	It really is impossible not to like him. His success was his failure.	102
Judith McNaught	Success without someone to share it with is hollow indeed. On the other hand, it beats the heck out of failure.	102
Winston Churchill	Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.	103
Colin Powell	There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.	103
B. F. Skinner	A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.	103
Joe Biden	Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable.	103
Alicia Keys	Failure isn't an option. I've erased the word 'fear' from my vocabulary, and I think when you erase fear, you can't fail.	103
Allen Tate	So the poet, who wants to be something that he cannot be, and is a failure in plain life, makes up fictitious versions of his predicament that are interesting even to other persons because nobody is a perfect automobile salesman.	103
Andrew Lloyd Webber	What strikes me is that there's a very fine line between success and failure. Just one ingredient can make the difference.	103
Christopher Morley	A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.	103
Gertrude Stein	A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.	103
Hideo Kojima	My biggest failure is 'Metal Gear.' It's my biggest failure and my biggest success.	103
Lucille Ball	I hate failure and that divorce was a Number One failure in my eyes. It was the worst period of my life. Neither Desi nor I have been the same since, physically or mentally.	103
Matthew McConaughey	We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.	103
Paul Tillich	He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.	103
Wynonna Judd	My story of success and failure is not just about music and being famous. It's about living and loving and trying to find purpose in this crazy world.	103
Xavier Becerra	Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease, where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function, the end result of which is kidney failure.	103
Zbigniew Brzezinski	We have actually experienced in recent months a dramatic demonstration of an unprecedented intelligence failure, perhaps the most significant intelligence failure in the history of the United States.	103
Dorothea Brande	All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right about face which turns us from failure to success.	103
Ellen Page	I hate how box-office failures are blamed on an actress, yet I don't see a box-office failure blamed on men.	103
Elliot Richardson	There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible.	103
Frederic William Farrar	There is only one real failure in life that is possible, and that is, not to be true to the best one knows.	103
Gordon Moore	With engineering, I view this year's failure as next year's opportunity to try it again. Failures are not something to be avoided. You want to have them happen as quickly as you can so you can make progress rapidly.	103
Nick Turse	U.S. failures when it comes to the Gulf of Guinea are many: a failure to address the longstanding concerns of a government watchdog agency, a failure to effectively combat piracy despite an outlay of tens of millions of taxpayer dollars, and a failure to confront corrupt African leaders who enable piracy in the first place.	103
Tom Hopkins	I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.	103
Edward Bach	The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not causes. Nothing more than the patching up of those attacked and the burying of those who are slain, without a thought being given to the real strong hold.	103
Greil Marcus	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.	103
Hans Eysenck	In our tabulation of psychoanalytic results, we have classed those who stopped treatment together with those not improved. This appears to be reasonable; a patient who fails to finish his treatment, and is not improved, is surely a therapeutic failure.	103
Jon Oringer	You can't be afraid of the problem. Don't be afraid of failure; don't be afraid to make mistakes. Make sure you learn from each step; iterate, and stay as efficient as possible without being paralyzed by a difficult situation.	103
Mike Mills	Sadness is a super important thing not to be ashamed about but to include in our lives. One of the bigger problems with sadness or depression is there's so much shame around it. If you have it you're a failure. You are felt as being very unattractive.	103
Richard V. Allen	Our system provides for a winner to take office on January 20th, and he is expected to take command of the ship of state. Failure to do so, characterized by hesitation and indecision, will harm the national interest.	103
Shahid Kapoor	It feels bad when a film doesn't work; everyone puts in a lot of effort to make a movie. The positive side to failure - they make me work harder.	103
Susie Orbach	I'd like to see much more understanding of emotional issues around hurt, abandonment, disappointment, longing, failure and shame, where they stem from and how they drive people and policies brought into public discourse.	103
Will C. Barnes	Every author believes that the book which he is placing before the public will 'fill a long-felt want,' and success or failure depends very much on how closely he has been able to gauge the nature of the 'long-felt want.'	103
Arthur C. Brooks	The more control you have over your life, the more responsible you feel for your own success - or failure.	103
George Hickenlooper	I'm fascinated by failure, and I'm fascinated by finality. Shakespeare's historical plays are more universal than his comedies because they relate to the finality of life. Without finality, life would not be beautiful.	103
Mimi Kennedy	Appearances are not truth. But every politician knows that his or her image, as well as his or her actions, can make the difference between failure and success.	103
Paul Twitchell	Y'know, the real reason why I was such a failure in the sense of being unable to make any sort of a living was because I was really not motivated. I had no motivation.	103
Rob Thomas	Having written both comedy and drama, comedy's harder because the fear of failure's so much stronger. When you write a scene and you see it cut together, and it doesn't make you laugh, it hurts in a way that failed drama doesn't. Failed drama, it's all, 'That's not that compelling,' but failed comedy just lays there.	103
David Sarnoff	The will to persevere is often the difference between failure and success.	103
Elie Tahari	I had to succeed. Failure means I would have to be homeless again.	103
Maude Adams	Life is so fresh, life is every day so new if we are fighting, only for the best. Sometimes I think the only real satisfaction in life is failure, failure in your endeavor to do your best.	103
Michael Crawford	Divorce is never a pleasant experience. You look upon it as a failure. But I learned to be a different person once we broke up. Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success.	103
Patanjali	Ignorance is the failure to discriminate between the permanent and the impermanent, the pure and the impure, bliss and suffering, the Self and the non-Self.	103
Robert Half	Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.	103
Sonia Johnson	What we have most to fear is failure of the heart.	103
Dana Fox	My big philosophy is: Try and work with good people, because the process is your life. That's going to be really, really hard. I'm glad I learned the lesson, 'Failure is OK.'	103
John B. S. Haldane	We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve.	103
Robert E. Howard	But whatever my failure, I have this thing to remember - that I was a pioneer in my profession, just as my grandfathers were in theirs, in that I was the first man in this section to earn his living as a writer.	103
John Poindexter	You accept failure as a possible outcome of some of the experiments. If you don't get failures, you're not pushing hard enough on the objectives.	103
Rouben Mamoulian	The world today is so full of violence, obscenity, war, the failure of political systems. I try to make movies that make people a bit more confident. But that doesn't mean being sugary.	103
Shane Leslie	We are equally glad and surprised at Winston's return to office. It shows that he was built for success that he should have declined to withdraw and sulk over a superficial failure.	103
Jean Kerr	I think success has no rules, but you can learn a great deal from failure.	103
Joshua Harris	You get up and you preach a sermon and people walk away thinking what a great guy - and that's a failure as a pastor. Our job is to proclaim Christ.	103
Bill Gates	It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.	104
Colin Powell	Leadership is solving problems. 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 or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.	104
Henry Ford	Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.	104
Kobe Bryant	I have self-doubt. I have insecurity. I have fear of failure. I have nights when I show up at the arena and I'm like, 'My back hurts, my feet hurt, my knees hurt. I don't have it. I just want to chill.' We all have self-doubt. You don't deny it, but you also don't capitulate to it. You embrace it.	104
Brene Brown	There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.	104
Swami Sivananda	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.	104
Claude Monet	My life has been nothing but a failure.	104
Donna Brazile	Failure. It doesn't exist. 'Failure' is just what happens when we lose perspective.	104
George Cukor	You can't have any successes unless you can accept failure.	104
Hank Aaron	Failure is a part of success.	104
Kevin Smith	There's something to be said for failing. It's not the failure you feel, it's the failure that people project when something disappoints. You're back to ground zero, where there's no expectations, and that's where I like to be.	104
Paramahansa Yogananda	The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.	104
Slavoj Zizek	I - and I still consider myself, I'm sorry to tell you, a Marxist and a Communist, but I couldn't help noticing how all the best Marxist analyses are always analyses of a failure.	104
Sting	That sense of failure, I don't know where people put it who don't write songs and aren't able to emote physically. It must go somewhere.	104
Thomas Babington Macaulay	American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society.	104
Tullian Tchividjian	Believe it or not, Christianity is not about good people getting better. If anything, it is good news for bad people coping with their failure to be good.	104
LeAnn Rimes	I'm living life as best I can - but I'm not exempt from failure and making bad choices.	104
Mark Frauenfelder	In school, we learn that mistakes translate into bad grades. This unfortunate lesson gets burned into our brains, and we go through life shunning challenges that might end in failure.	104
Paddy Ashdown	The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.	104
Patrick Stump	There's no amount of money that makes you feel better when people think of you as a joke or a hack or a failure or ugly or stupid or morally empty.	104
Rick Pitino	Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.	104
S. I. Hayakawa	Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.	104
Sheila Jackson Lee	By virtually any measure, the record of the Republican Majority is an appalling failure.	104
Tim Wise	Our failure as a society to properly acknowledge and confront the psychological, social, and political effects of white privilege has perpetuated racial inequality and race-based political resentments.	104
Willard Wigan	My teacher said my brain was the size of a pea. He made my life miserable by singling me out in the classroom as a failure.	104
Brett Ratner	When you're fearless, you take more risks because you're less conscious of failure or what can go wrong.	104
George Allen	I rise today to offer a formal and heartfelt apology to all the victims of lynching in our history, and for the failure of the United States Senate to take action when action was most needed.	104
Humphry Davy	The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures.	104
Steve Forbes	The rise of China as a new power is another great challenge for the US. Our failure to properly handle Germany and Japan earlier in the 20th century cost us and the world dearly. We must not make this same mistake with China.	104
William Frederick Book	Never permit failure to become a habit.	104
Ann Cotton	Be greedy for social change, and your life will be endlessly enriched. The only failure lies in not trying, or giving up.	104
Billy Childish	I liked drawing and painting, because the only failure would be to listen to the doubters who wanted me to stop drawing and painting because 'you aren't going to make a living doing that.' I liked looking in art books at the work of painters.	104
Emanuel Steward	I went to a motivational training course once, a course of self-discovery, and I found out after a week that my fear - it was not a fear of not being accepted - was a very violent fear of failure.	104
Mark Lawrenson	Don't be frightened of failure. It makes you stronger if you learn from your mistakes.	104
Markus Zusak	Failure has been my best friend as a writer. It tests you, to see if you have what it takes to see it through.	104
Robert Farrar Capon	At the root of many a woman's failure to become a great cook lies her failure to develop a workmanlike regard for knives.	104
Robin Tunney	A film's success or failure is strictly on the director's shoulders.	104
Cal Thomas	America's most dangerous diseases have developed an immunity to politics. We suffer not from a failure of political organization or power, but a failure of love.	104
E. Franklin Frazier	Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life.	104
Kurt Student	After that he turned to the question of invading England. Hitler said that during the previous year he could not afford to risk a possible failure; apart from that, he had not wished to provoke the British, as he hoped to arrange peace talks.	104
Maude Adams	When I was about 15... I made my first attempt as a leading lady, and was, of course, a complete failure.	104
Michael Chertoff	Well, I think first of all there was a failure to have real, clear information at our disposal. There was a real lack of situational awareness. We didn't have the capabilities on the ground to give us real-time, accurate assessments of the physical condition of the city.	104
John Mica	Other countries, such as Israel, successfully employ behavior detection techniques at their airports, but the bloated, ineffective bureaucracy of TSA has produced another security failure for U.S. transportation systems.	104
Roger Babson	It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.	104
Shaffi Mather	The TED Fellowship exposed me to a set of youngsters who had wilder ideas than I did - and almost all of them were pursuing their wild and crazy ideas without fear of failure.	104
Anna Garlin Spencer	The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement.	104
Chuck Barris	There's tons of creative people in television that have one failure after another, and they just step up higher. I could never get over that. When I had a failure, there was no such thing as just getting over it.	104
Michael Feldman	I don't think anybody should do what they do in hopes of being successful. But I always expect myself to be successful at things. And if I'm not, I feel bad. I don't care for failure. I've failed at a number of things, and it's not my favorite state of mind. So I prefer success.	104
Roland Gift	Our managers hadn't had that kind of success - the record company hadn't, we hadn't - and the feeling was that the next record had to be even bigger, and if it wasn't it would be some kind of failure.	104
Scott Brown	I've criticized President Bush for his failure to use his veto pen. There's plenty of blame to go around. The question is how to solve problems. It's not bailouts. What made America great? Free markets, free enterprise, manufacturing, job creation. That's how we're gonna do it, not by enlarging government.	104
Alvin Adams	Humanitarian missions are little different from any other public enterprise, diplomacy included, which is susceptible of misinterpretation by the public, hence ultimately of failure.	104
An Wang	You have to risk failure to succeed. The important thing is not to make one single mistake that will jeopardize the future.	104
John Dingell	War is failure of diplomacy.	104
Matt Passmore	There is a 90% failure rate for most shows. It's difficult for any show to write for the next season.	104
Michael Baden	I saw why people died and how they died. I saw gunshot wounds and liver failure. It was a good learning experience, so I came regularly on weekends and holidays.	104
Alice Foote MacDougall	I simply don't believe in failure. In itself, it doesn't exist. We create it. We make ourselves fail.	104
Jerry Brown	Jobs for every American is doomed to failure because of modern automation and production. We ought to recognize it and create an income-maintenance system so every single American has the dignity and the wherewithal for shelter, basic food, and medical care. I'm talking about welfare for all. Without it, you're going to have warfare for all.	104
John Hersey	It's a failure of national vision when you regard children as weapons, and talents as materials you can mine, assay, and fabricate for profit and defense.	104
C. S. Lewis	Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.	105
Robert E. Lee	We failed, but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing.	105
Michel de Montaigne	There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.	105
B. C. Forbes	The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.	105
Casey Stengel	You gotta lose 'em some of the time. When you do, lose 'em right.	105
Charlie Sheen	As kids we're not taught how to deal with success; we're taught how to deal with failure. If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. If at first you succeed, then what?	105
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie	If I were not African, I wonder whether it would be clear to me that Africa is a place where the people do not need limp gifts of fish but sturdy fishing rods and fair access to the pond. I wonder whether I would realize that while African nations have a failure of leadership, they also have dynamic people with agency and voices.	105
Edwin Land	An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.	105
Florence Scovel Shinn	You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. This is done by making an affirmation which 'clicks.'	105
Gordon Parks	At first I wasn't sure that I had the talent, but I did know I had a fear of failure, and that fear compelled me to fight off anything that might abet it.	105
Henry Knox	Something is wanting, and something must be done, or we shall be involved in all the horror of failure, and civil war without a prospect of its termination.	105
Mother Angelica	The woman is a gentle, loving bond who encourages, consoles, builds, reconciles, and makes all things new and vibrant. The woman is strength in time of suffering, courageous in failure, intuitive in time of danger. A woman is ingenuous when all fails, resourceful in times of want, and a true helpmate for man.	105
Robert Kiyosaki	The thing I always say to people is this: 'If you avoid failure, you also avoid success.'	105
Scott Stossel	I am living on the razor's edge between success and failure, adulation and humiliation - between justifying my existence and revealing my unworthiness to be alive.	105
William Howard Taft	Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man.	105
Yann Martel	Every book I've written has been a different attempt to understand something, and the success or failure of the previous one is irrelevant. I write the book I want.	105
Daley Thompson	Kids have been let down by adults - we've tried to give them too much, we've tried not to impose discipline. We've tried to make their lives easier and, in doing so, we've taken something away from them. Kids like boundaries, they also like to be pushed, need to learn what failure is all about, need guidance.	105
Eric Topol	For diabetes in particular, we know there's a relationship between lack of glucose regulation and complications like blindness and kidney failure. So if you were diabetic and you knew that you could get your glucose in a tight, normal range just by adjusting your lifestyle, wouldn't that be great?	105
Ranbir Kapoor	I'm quite detached from failure and success. Once a shooting is done, I kind of close that chapter in my life.	105
Soichiro Honda	Success represents the 1% of your work which results from the 99% that is called failure.	105
Tom Baker	I have never described the time I was in Doctor Who as anything except a kind of ecstatic success, but all the rest has been rather a muddle and a disappointment. Compared to Doctor Who, it has been an outrageous failure really - it's so boring.	105
Anupam Kher	Success is boring... failure is exciting and more entertaining.	105
Cat Cora	Even when you have doubts, take that step. Take chances. Mistakes are never a failure - they can be turned into wisdom.	105
Ronald Kessler	With the selection of Acting Secret Service Director Joseph P. Clancy as the director, President Obama has guaranteed that the agency will continue to lurch from one shocking security failure to another.	105
William Empson	Slowly the poison the whole blood stream fills. It is not the effort nor the failure tires. The waste remains, the waste remains and kills.	105
Ed Case	The sentiments in Hawaii about Washington's failure of leadership are no different than the rest of the country.	105
Gary Ryan Blair	Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.	105
Matt Emmons	Failure and things of this sort - you can take it one of two ways. You can either let that hurt you and really affect the way that you live your life in the future, or you can use that as an opportunity for growth.	105
Tom Kite	Fear comes in two packages fear of failure, and sometimes, fear of success.	105
Cory Lidle	Ninety-nine percent of pilots that go up never have engine failure, and the 1 percent that do usually land it. But if you're up in the air and something goes wrong, you pull that parachute, and the whole plane goes down slowly.	105
Bruno Bettelheim	The fear of failure is so great, it is no wonder that the desire to do right by one's children has led to a whole library of books offering advice on how to raise them.	105
Chade-Meng Tan	Success and failure are emotional and physiological experiences. We need to deal with them in a way that is present and calm.	105
John Osborne	There's no such thing as failure - just waiting for success.	105
Rupert Holmes	But thankfully, my first album, 'Wide Screen,' was sort of a critics' darling - everyone raved about it, but no one bought it. They only manufactured 10,000 copies; I wasn't even in the running for failure!	105
Sidney Hook	Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure.	105
Aaron Huey	War is the greatest failure of mankind.	105
Ron Dellums	Failure is not a crime. The crime is not trying.	105
Margaret Drabble	Nothing succeeds, they say, like success. And certainly nothing fails like failure.	105
Jack Lemmon	Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure.	105
Napoleon Hill	Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.	106
Nigel Farage	It's a European Union of economic failure, of mass unemployment and of low growth.	106
Richard Branson	Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.	106
Chanakya	Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.	106
Alain Ducasse	Failure is enriching. It's also important to accept that you'll make mistakes - it's how you build your expertise. The trick is to learn a positive lesson from all of life's negative moments.	106
Alan King	My father was a dreamer - my hero. He was a smart, tough guy from Poland, a cutter of lady's handbags, an old socialist-unionist who always considered himself a failure. His big line was: 'Don't end up like me.'	106
Ann Landers	There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.	106
Berkeley Breathed	That's the conundrum of cartoon stripping, as opposed to political cartoons. When your anger is the driving force of your drawing hand, failure follows. The anger is OK, but it has to serve the interests of the heart, frankly.	106
Charles Schwab	I have probably purchased fifty 'hot tips' in my career, maybe even more. When I put them all together, I know I am a net loser.	106
Daniel Webster	Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.	106
David Mamet	War is tragedy. The great war stories are tragedies. It's the failure of diplomacy. 'War and Peace,' 'A Farewell to Arms,' 'For Whom the Bell Tolls.' Those are some of the greatest tragedies.	106
Desi Arnaz	Failure is the most terrible thing in our business. When we fail, the whole world knows about it.	106
E. O. Wilson	You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give.	106
Erik Erikson	Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure. Do not mistake a child for his symptom.	106
Francis Picabia	The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.	106
George Burns	I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.	106
John Burroughs	A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.	106
Kevin Bacon	Part of being a man is learning to take responsibility for your successes and for your failures. You can't go blaming others or being jealous. Seeing somebody else's success as your failure is a cancerous way to live.	106
Lupita Nyong'o	It's only when you risk failure that you discover things. When you play it safe, you're not expressing the utmost of your human experience.	106
Mike Ditka	Success isn't permanent and failure isn't fatal.	106
Mike Murdock	Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.	106
Niecy Nash	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.	106
Niklas Zennstrom	You shouldn't be afraid of failure - when something fails, you think, 'What did I learn from that experience? I can do better next time.' Then kill that project and move on to the next. Don't get disappointed.	106
Samuel Taylor Coleridge	In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.	106
Victor Kiam	Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.	106
Andre Malraux	Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.	106
Bob Woodward	Nixon's grand mistake was his failure to understand that Americans are forgiving, and if he had admitted error early and apologized to the country, he would have escaped.	106
Deborah Moggach	It's not a failure if a marriage or partnership ends after a certain number of years. I think, in general, we expect too much of partners. We can't fulfil a person's every single need and, after ten years or so, many relationships wear out. If we were more philosophical about it, we wouldn't try to blame the other person or be bitter.	106
Gabrielle Union	You get so afraid of failure and so afraid of losing and so afraid of not being the best that it's not a natural drive - it's born out of fear of failure. Which helps in Hollywood.	106
Herbert Samuel	It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.	106
Jason Silva	For me, it's always a failure of the imagination. I have that anxiety that time is passing, that everything is ultimately fleeting and impermanent. I better take advantage of every single moment.	106
Jerry Saltz	I love Rauschenberg. I love that he created a turning point in visual history, that he redefined the idea of beauty, that he combined painting, sculpture, photography, and everyday life with such gall, and that he was interested in, as he put it, 'the ability to conceive failure as progress.'	106
Randeep Hooda	I've had my share of struggle. I believe, never take success to your head or failure to your heart.	106
Sara Blakely	My dad encouraged us to fail. Growing up, he would ask us what we failed at that week. If we didn't have something, he would be disappointed. It changed my mindset at an early age that failure is not the outcome, failure is not trying. Don't be afraid to fail.	106
Soichiro Honda	Success is 99 percent failure.	106
Eskinder Nega	Tyranny is increasingly unsustainable in this post-cold-war era. It is doomed to failure. But it must be prodded to exit the stage with a whimper - not the bang that extremists long for.	106
Laurence Housman	My failure, during the first five or six years of my art training, to get set in the right direction, and the disappointment which it caused me, drove me the more persistently into writing as an alternative.	106
Peter Morgan	I'm not an artist, and I want to take risks, and when the possibility of failure occurs, it's because the idea is all exciting or interesting as a high wire act, and sometimes you've got to fall off, just by virtue of the fact that you're constantly trying to evolve and do new things.	106
Sam Abell	There are a lot of ways to be expressive in life, but I wasn't good at some of them. Music, for instance. I was a distinct failure with the cello. Eventually, my parents sold the cello and bought a vacuum cleaner. The sound in our home improved.	106
Arthur Bloch	A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.	106
Douglas Wood	Fear of failure has always been my best motivator.	106
Errol Flynn	Any man who has $10,000 left when he dies is a failure.	106
David Malpass	The U.S. has a law on the books called the debt limit, but the name is misleading. The debt limit started in 1917 for the purpose of facilitating more national debt, not reducing it. It still serves that purpose. It's unconnected to spending, hurts our credit rating and has been an abject failure at limiting debt.	106
Michael Crawford	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.	106
Mickey Gilley	My only failure was the restaurant in Myrtle Beach. I kept it open for four years. It was in a tourist town, it was only busy four and half, five months of the year. But the bills kept coming all year.	106
Tiki Barber	I grew up playing sports. There is a clear line between success and failure.	106
Mark Edwards	To me, all war is failure for humanity, though it often is a bounty for commerce.	106
Roger Babson	Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.	106
Aunjanue Ellis	I think a film is a failure if it doesn't have an emotional effect. That's the film's failure. Not if it doesn't deliver a message, but if it doesn't have emotional effect or visceral effect.	106
Margaret Drabble	Nothing fails like failure.	106
Jasper Carrott	I just felt that 'Golden Balls' was the right thing to do. I didn't care if people thought I was a failure.	106
John Hersey	Learning starts with failure; the first failure is the beginning of education.	106
John C. Maxwell	The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure.	107
Michael Jordan	I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.	107
Tony Robbins	I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.	107
Abraham Joshua Heschel	Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.	107
Adam Savage	Failure is always an option.	107
George Clooney	The only failure is not to try.	107
Gloria Swanson	If you're 40 years old and you've never had a failure, you've been deprived.	107
Mary Kay Ash	For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.	107
Myles Munroe	When you believe in your dream and your vision, then it begins to attract its own resources. No one was born to be a failure.	107
Nikki Giovanni	I really don't think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don't mind the failure but I can't imagine that I'd forgive myself if I didn't try.	107
Phyllis Schlafly	Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature.	107
Rickey Henderson	Once you can accept failure, you can have fun and success.	107
Seth Godin	In a crowded marketplace, fitting in is a failure. In a busy marketplace, not standing out is the same as being invisible.	107
Theodor Herzl	Philanthropic colonization is a failure. National colonization will succeed.	107
Tony McCoy	From a public perspective, the Grand National is the biggest race of all, and not to have won it yet is definitely a failure. But there's been a lot of jockeys every bit as good and better than me that haven't won it - John Francome, Peter Scudamore, Jonjo O'Neill, Charlie Swan, to name a few.	107
Arianna Huffington	We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes - understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success.	107
Charles Horton Cooley	Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God.	107
Joe Strummer	The hippy movement was a failure. All hippies around now just represent complete apathy. There's a million good reasons why the thing failed, OK. But the only thing we've got to live with is that it failed.	107
Jon Meacham	The traditional religious right's failure to restore public-school prayer or pass an antiabortion constitutional amendment has likely helped fuel the spread of the more extreme dominionist school.	107
Natalie Goldberg	I feel that 'The Great Failure' is really a book written out of great love and a willingness to face all of who a human being is.	107
Robert W. Service	No man can be a failure if he thinks he's a success; If he thinks he is a winner, then he is.	107
Kevin Powers	One of the things my service in Iraq did give me was this freedom from fear of failure or any kind of expectations that I had to take a standard path.	107
Laura Fraser	When I was 18, I couldn't wait to move away. I was like: 'If I ever have to come back here, I'll kill myself.' Glasgow seemed like failure and death to me back then, but not any more.	107
Elizabeth Pena	When I got Jacob's Latter, I was nervous because I felt I wasn't allowed to fail. I felt that they were waiting for one little failure and that would prove them right and I'd be, 'out of there.'	107
Tim Harford	If the whole process of learning from failure means discarding stuff that's not working, but in fact, our natural reaction is to keep going, to throw more money behind it, to throw more emotional energy behind it... that's a real problem.	107
Corey Hart	I think you can learn as much from success as you can from failure.	107
Jim Cooper	Politicians are terrified of losing touch with folks back home but content to be clueless about government's failure to fix real problems.	107
Alice James	The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape.	107
John Roos	What people often ask me is, 'What are the ingredients of Silicon Valley?' While the answer to that is complex, some of the ingredients I talk about are celebrating entrepreneurship, accepting failure, and embracing a mobile and diverse workforce.	107
John H. Johnson	Failure is a word that I simply don't accept.	107
Winston Churchill	Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.	108
John Wooden	Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.	108
Norman Vincent Peale	Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.	108
Elbert Hubbard	A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.	108
Chester W. Nimitz	Is the proposed operation likely to succeed? What might the consequences of failure? Is it in the realm of practicability in terms of material and supplies?	108
Eric Hoffer	There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.	108
Kin Hubbard	There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.	108
Malcolm Muggeridge	There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.	108
Neal Boortz	The key to accepting responsibility for your life is to accept the fact that your choices, every one of them, are leading you inexorably to either success or failure, however you define those terms.	108
Quentin Crisp	If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.	108
Rosalynn Carter	If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk.	108
Thomas J. Watson	You can be discouraged by failure, or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes, make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success - on the far side of failure.	108
Vin Diesel	If you're the type of person who has to fulfill your dreams, you've gotta be resourceful to make sure you can do it. I came out to California when I was 21, thinking my New York credentials would take me all the way. I came back home a year later all dejected and a failure.	108
Walter Scott	Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.	108
William Feather	No man is a failure who is enjoying life.	108
William Lloyd Garrison	We may be personally defeated, but our principles never!	108
Alexandre Dumas	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.	108
Allan Bloom	The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is all there is.	108
Colum McCann	I think one of the biggest political failures, and the biggest social failures, over the past few years has been the failure of empathy; not being able to look at the other person down the street.	108
Mickey Rooney	You always pass failure on your way to success.	108
Mitch Daniels	The failure of national economic policy is costing us more than jobs; it has begun to weaken that uniquely American spirit of risk-taking, large ambition, and optimism about the future. We must rally them now to bold departures that rebuild our national morale as well as our material prosperity.	108
Sara Blakely	I think failure is nothing more than life's way of nudging you that you are off course. My attitude to failure is not attached to outcome, but in not trying. It is liberating. Most people attach failure to something not working out or how people perceive you. This way, it is about answering to yourself.	108
Tadashi Yanai	I think like a Silicon Valley entrepreneur. Failure is a great teacher. At the same time, you must remember, success will never last... Whether it's tech or fashion, it must be for the customer.	108
William Irwin Thompson	Catastrophes are often stimulated by the failure to feel the emergence of a domain, and so what cannot be felt in the imagination is experienced as embodied sensation in the catastrophe.	108
Agnetha Faltskog	It has always felt like a failure that Bjorn and I couldn't keep our family together. You never get it back, but to this day I don't regret splitting up. The reason behind our separation is one of those things I definitely don't want to go into!	108
Alan Shearer	We go there with confidence, but we know there is a very fine line between success and failure in this game.	108
Chris Zylka	My greatest fear is failure.	108
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw	I've had many failures in terms of technological... business... and even research failures. I really believe that entrepreneurship is about being able to face failure, manage failure and succeed after failing.	108
Pete Sessions	Our nation's Social Security Trust Fund is depleting at an alarming rate, and failure to implement immediate reforms endangers the ability of Americans to plan for their retirement with the options and certainty they deserve.	108
Steven Moffat	The difference between a beautifully made failure and a beautifully made hit is who you've got playing the leads.	108
Anna Neagle	The time I had waited probably made the difference between success and failure.	108
Bill Moyers	War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.	108
Gary Ryan Blair	Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.	108
Gavyn Davies	It was an interesting question as to whether the BBC had a future in the digital world, and what form of market failure could justify the licence fee system.	108
James Lane Allen	He who has conquered doubt and fear has conquered failure.	108
Jerry Bruckheimer	Definitely, it's a fear of failure that drives me.	108
Toni Cade Bambara	The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality.	108
Daniel Inouye	Mr. Gonzales' failure to respond to questions legitimately posed to him by the Senate raises grave doubts in my mind as to his fitness to serve the people of the United States as their Attorney General.	108
James Mark Baldwin	Feeling is the consciousness of the resulting conditions - of success, failure, equilibrium, compromise or balance, in this continuous rivalry of ideas.	108
Jon Corzine	It has now been over 7 years since Congress last raised the minimum wage to its current level of $5.15 per hour. Since that last increase, Congress's failure to adjust the wage for inflation has reduced the purchasing power of the minimum wage to record low levels.	108
Jonathan Raban	Critics? Don't talk to me of critics! You think some jackanapes journalist, his soul eaten away by the maggots of jealousy and failure, has anything worthwhile to say of art? I don't.	108
Jeff Beck	If you were to plot my success or failure, it goes, it very seldom stays on a high plateau.	108
Theodore Roosevelt	Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.	109
Louis C. K.	I think you have to try and fail, because failure gets you closer to what you're good at.	109
William James	Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.	109
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn	It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.	109
Atul Gawande	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.	109
Benjamin E. Mays	Not failure, but low aim is sin.	109
Bryan Cranston	If you have a level of expectation in your life that you have to be a quote-unquote star, whatever that means, you might be setting yourself up for failure.	109
Chuck Noll	Before you can win a game, you have to not lose it.	109
Cliff Richard	But if you have a solid walk with the Lord, then you won't fear that failure.	109
Emma Watson	I don't want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about.	109
George Matthew Adams	It is easier to win than to fail. Everybody sides with the winner. But the failure walks alone.	109
Gordon Ramsay	I've had a lot of success; I've had failures, so I learn from the failure.	109
Henry Kravis	As I said there is nothing wrong with failing. Pick yourself up and try it again. You never are going to know how good you really are until you go out and face failure.	109
Jonathan Kozol	I feel, in the end, as if everything I've done has been a failure.	109
Maxwell Maltz	You make mistakes. Mistakes don't make you.	109
Naveen Jain	In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option. We need to change this attitude toward failure - and celebrate the idea that only by falling on our collective business faces do we learn enough to succeed down the road.	109
Shah Rukh Khan	Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble.	109
Thomas J. Watson	If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.	109
Tina Fey	For my first show at 'SNL', I wrote a Bill Clinton sketch, and during our read-through, it wasn't getting any laughs. This weight of embarrassment came over me, and I felt like I was sweating from my spine out. But I realized, 'Okay, that happened, and I did not die.' You've got to experience failure to understand that you can survive it.	109
Ty Cobb	Don't come home a failure.	109
Amy Tan	I think I've always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to hope. So, I was more prepared for failure and for rejection than for success.	109
Jimmy Carr	As soon as I did my first five minutes of stand-up I knew that I would rather be a failure at comedy than a success in marketing.	109
Matt Blunt	Over the next four years, we will be bold. We will be willing to experiment. We will not fear failure.	109
Matt Taibbi	The threat posed by Bank of America isn't just financial - it's a full-blown assault on the American dream. Where's the incentive to play fair and do well, when what we see rewarded at the highest levels of society is failure, stupidity, incompetence and meanness? If this is what winning in our system looks like, who doesn't want to be a loser?	109
Tammy Bruce	One of the biggest problems with the modern feminist movement is its failure to bring men along with us.	109
Tony Kushner	I find writing very difficult. It's hard and it hurts sometimes, and it's scary because of the fear of failure and the very unpleasant feeling that you may have reached the limit of your abilities.	109
David Limbaugh	Some of the reasons John McCain lost in 2008 were his lackluster campaign, his refusal to showcase Obama's extreme liberalism and, thus, his failure to demonstrate why he would make a better president than Obama.	109
Richard Brinsley Sheridan	The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.	109
Joseph Barber Lightfoot	The success and the failure are not my concern, but His.	109
Michael Koryta	I made a very conscious effort to finish 'The Cypress House' before 'So Cold the River' launched, because I thought that would help build a buffer between my writing and any impact that came from either the success or the failure of that first book.	109
Douglas Fairbanks	In taking stock of ourselves, we should not forget that fear plays a large part in the drama of failure. That is the first thing to be dropped. Fear is a mental deficiency susceptible of correction, if taken in hand before it gains an ascendency over us. Fear comes with the thought of failure.	109
Steve Jobs	Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.	110
George W. Bush	I'm hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure.	110
John Wooden	Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.	110
Jay-Z	Successful people have a bigger fear of failure than people who've never done anything because if you haven't been successful, then you don't know how it feels to lose it all.	110
Bill Cosby	I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.	110
Felicity Kendal	Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period.	110
Ferran Adria	Risk is to do something that 99 percent of the time would be a failure.	110
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.	110
Hideki Tojo	The reason was the failure of both Japan and China to understand each other and the inability of America and the European powers to sympathize, without prejudice, with the peoples of East Asia.	110
James Allen	To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.	110
Knute Rockne	Show me a good and gracious loser and I'll show you a failure.	110
Lincoln Steffens	Boston has carried the practice of hypocrisy to the n-th degree of refinement, grace, and failure.	110
Mia Hamm	Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it.	110
Myles Munroe	True leaders don't invest in buildings. Jesus never built a building. They invest in people. Why? Because success without a successor is failure. So your legacy should not be in buildings, programs, or projects; your legacy must be in people.	110
Shah Rukh Khan	Success and failure are both part of life. Both are not permanent.	110
Tommy Lasorda	About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure.	110
Tullian Tchividjian	My failure to lay aside the sin that so easily entangles is the direct result of my refusal to die to my natural proclivity toward attaining my own freedom, meaning, value, worth, and righteousness - not believing that, by virtue of my Spirit - wrought union with Christ, everything I need, I already possess.	110
Whoopi Goldberg	We're born with success. It is only others who point out our failures, and what they attribute to us as failure.	110
James Altucher	Honesty is about the scars. It's about the blemishes. But it's more than just bragging about failure, which could be a form of ego. It's about truly helping people.	110
Toby Young	I've become a professional failure - in order to pay the mortgage I have to remain unemployed. Luckily, a disaster always seems to befall me at exactly the right moment.	110
William Kingdon Clifford	When an action is once done, it is right or wrong for ever; no accidental failure of its good or evil fruits can possibly alter that.	110
Anupam Kher	It's your own fear of failure that stops you from doing things.	110
Koichi Tanaka	Most of the work performed by a development engineer results in failure.	110
Alan Hansen	The pressures are intense, because the rewards for success and the penalty for failure are more and more.	110
Boutros Boutros-Ghali	The failure of the United Nations - My failure is maybe, in retrospective, that I was not enough aggressive with the members of the Security Council.	110
Malcolm Mclaren	I was taught that to create anything you had to believe in failure, simply because you had to be prepared to go through an idea without any fear. Failure, you learned, as I did in art school, to be a wonderful thing. It allowed you to get up in the morning and take the pillow off your head.	110
John Connolly	The only person who needs to know about failure is yourself.	110
Thomas A. Edison	Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.	111
Anthony J. D'Angelo	The only real failure in life is one not learned from.	111
Branch Rickey	I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places - uprightness and strength and courage and civil respect and anything that affects the probabilities of failure on the part of those that are closest to me, that concerns me - I find fault.	111
Elizabeth Taylor	I fell off my pink cloud with a thud.	111
Fidel Castro	They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?	111
Heston Blumenthal	I'm not scared of anything in particular, but I am motivated by a fear of failure as opposed to a need to succeed.	111
Jerry Rice	My work ethic came from my parents and my fear of failure. I came from a small, predominantly black school and I didn't want to let them down.	111
Mike Krzyzewski	I think some parents now look at a youngster failing as the final thing. It's a process, and failure is part of the process. I would like it if the teacher and the parents would connect more. I think that used to be, but we're losing a little bit of that right now.	111
Robert H. Schuller	Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet.	111
Truman Capote	Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.	111
Walter Pater	In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit is relative to a stereotyped world, and meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that makes two persons, things, situations, seem alike.	111
Warren Farrell	Boys with a 'failure to launch' are invisible to most girls. With poor social skills, the boys feel anger at their fear of being rejected and self-loathing at their inability to compete.	111
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.	111
Garry Shandling	I think it's one of the main negative emotional ingredients that fuels show business, because there's so much at stake and the fear of failure looms large.	111
Jules Renard	Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.	111
Karl Liebknecht	The failure of the Russian Socialist Republic will be the defeat of the proletariat of the whole world.	111
Loudon Wainwright III	I love failure. It's stuff that I'm thinking about all the time in my life, so it would make sense to me anyway to write about it.	111
Toby Young	America thinks of itself as a meritocracy, so people have more respect for success and more contempt for failure.	111
Bob Ainsworth	Failure in Afghanistan would have profound consequences for our national security. It would undermine the NATO alliance structure that has been the bedrock of Britain's defence for the last 60 years... I will not allow this to happen on my watch.	111
Estelle Morris	Before this government came to power, many failing schools were simply allowed to drift on in a pattern of continuing failure. The government is determined to break that pattern and is successfully doing so.	111
Jensen Ackles	Some people will go to the opening of an envelope. They live their lives in the public eye and get off on it, they need it. They need that kind of adoration. If their name isn't in the tabloids once a week they feel like a failure.	111
Judd Nelson	With failure, you just try again.	111
Albert Claude	This attempt to isolate cell constituents might have been a failure if they had been destroyed by the relative brutality of the technique employed. But this did not happen.	111
Ruben Hinojosa	If we do not get No Child Left Behind right for Limited English Proficient students, the law will be a failure for most schools in the 15th Congressional District, and for many across the nation.	111
Sanjay Kumar	Failure is unfortunately as common as success.	111
Charles Inglis	A Failure in this Duty did once involve our Nation in all the Horrors of Rebellion and Civil War.	111
Joseph Barber Lightfoot	I will not be discouraged by failure; I will not be elated by success.	111
Roger von Oech	Most people think of success and failure as opposites, but they both are products of the same process.	111
Jeff Tweedy	I think somehow you need to get to a certain point in your life where the notion of failure is absurd.	111
John Mortimer	There is always time for failure.	111
Henry A. Wallace	This dullness of vision regarding the importance of the general welfare to the individual is the measure of the failure of our schools and churches to teach the spiritual significance of genuine democracy.	112
Amelia Earhart	Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail their failure must be but a challenge to others.	112
Denis Waitley	Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.	112
Carter G. Woodson	If Liberia has failed, then, it is no evidence of the failure of the Negro in government. It is merely evidence of the failure of slavery.	112
Emma Stone	Comedy was my sport. It taught me how to roll with the punches. Failure is the exact same as success when it comes to comedy because it just keeps coming. It never stops.	112
J. Paul Getty	I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.	112
John Kenneth Galbraith	War remains the decisive human failure.	112
Michael J. Fox	There's always failure. And there's always disappointment. And there's always loss. But the secret is learning from the loss, and realizing that none of those holes are vacuums.	112
Rahm Emanuel	What is more comforting to the terrorists around the world: the failure to pass the 9/11 legislation because we lacked a majority of the majority,' or putting aside partisan politics to enact tough new legislation with America's security foremost in mind?	112
Xavier Becerra	African Americans make up about 13 percent of the U.S. population but comprise 32 percent of patients treated for kidney failure, giving them a kidney failure rate that is 4.2 times greater than that of white Americans.	112
Akshay Kumar	I never feel any pressure about a film. What is meant to happen will happen. I have seen failure as well as success several times.	112
Alastair Campbell	Failure, it is thought, is what sells, and what people want to hear and read about. I am not so sure.	112
Emma Donoghue	I'm finding that success is way more time-consuming than failure ever was.	112
Shinzo Abe	I have experienced failure as a politician and for that very reason, I am ready to give everything for Japan.	112
Takeshi Kitano	My film directorial career has been nothing but repetition of one failure after another!	112
Trisha Yearwood	Divorce is so common and accepted in America that beating myself up over it may sound ridiculous. But I was raised to believe that divorce wasn't an option; to me, divorce equaled failure. I wasn't able to change that equation until I found myself in the right relationship.	112
Dan Buettner	Exercise, from a public health perspective, is an unmitigated failure. The world's longest-lived people live in environments that nudge them into more movement. They don't use power tools, they do their own yard work, they grow a garden.	112
David D. Burns	Learning to accept failure on multiple levels is, to my way of thinking, the key to become a world-class therapist. But that means humility, and setting your ego aside, while you develop superb new technical skills.	112
Cathy Rigby	Acting allows me the freedom to let go, to be in the moment, to be spontaneous. I no longer have the fear of losing, of failure.	112
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.	112
Jamie Moyer	If you're a doctor or a lawyer or teacher, if you only get three things right out of 10, you're considered a failure.	112
John C. Maxwell	Your attitude towards failure determines your altitude after failure.	113
Erin Gruwell	Some teachers feel that if they ask for emotional help, they're a failure. But teaching is a team sport.	113
Isabella Bird	A traveller must buy his own experience, and success or failure depends mainly on personal idiosyncrasies.	113
Judith Butler	Obama's failure to close Guantanamo is yet another instance where the rhetoric of democratic and constitutional rights proved not useful for his international relations, relations which are always pursued in ways that continue to link and fortify securitarian power with the opening of new markets.	113
Larry Elder	America traditionally represents the greatest possibility of someone's going from nothing to something. Why? In theory, if not practice, the government stays out of the way and lets individuals take risks and reap rewards or accept the consequences of failure. We call this capitalism - or, at least, we used to.	113
Lupe Fiasco	In Chicago, you have an absence of strong family units, and that absence gets filled by gangs. You have a failure in the school system, after-school programs and other social programs to help keep kids off the streets. Amnesty International speaks to that in some way, by keeping these issues in the forefront.	113
Tommy Lasorda	'Pressure' is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure.	113
Twyla Tharp	Ultimately there is no such thing as failure. There are lessons learned in different ways.	113
Brian Ferneyhough	Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure, if only in the specifically technical sense of entering spaces where prevailing criteria of success scarcely apply.	113
Darrell Issa	I don't need to be looking at every failure of government, I need to be looking where failure of government needs reform.	113
Don Johnson	People in the business will stay with you through drugs and alcohol and divorces and insanity and everything else, but you have a failure, pal, and they don't want to know nothing about you!	113
Henry Petroski	Failure is central to engineering. Every single calculation that an engineer makes is a failure calculation. Successful engineering is all about understanding how things break or fail.	113
Michael Korda	The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.	113
Rhys Ifans	You look at any culture, and prohibition has invariably been an unmitigated failure. It is just idiotic to criminalise any substance, I think.	113
Rob Zombie	Growing up, I had the weird fantasy list: I wanted to be Alice Cooper, Steven Spielberg, and Stan Lee. You have to have almost psychotic drive, because you're going to have years of failure.	113
Wesley Morris	There comes a point in your moviegoing life where you look at the screen and then you look at the world and you ask, 'What is going on?' You want the movies to show you the chaos and mess and risk and failure that are normal for a lot of us. Generally, the movies hide all of that.	113
Dirk Benedict	Hollywood... a city I was to come back to time and again, in sickness and in health, in success and in failure, with anticipation and with dread.	113
Michael Mandelbaum	The great thing about baseball is the causality is easy to determine and it always falls on the shoulders of one person. So there is absolute responsibility. That's why baseball is psychologically the cruelest sport and why it really requires psychological resources to play baseball - because you have to learn to live with failure.	113
Sam Donaldson	I don't know many people, if any, who have had some straight line toward success. I mean, they start here, they work hard, they've got what it takes, and they just go straight to the top over some number of years. Most people get a little failure.	113
Ali Larter	I was brought up to believe that there is no such thing as failure as long as I'm trying my best. So I've had a 'blood, guts and glory' approach through my whole life.	113
Jeremy Irons	So nevertheless, what I'm saying is that what one is - one's parameters are constantly narrowed by one's success, and my desire is to widen my field even if I risk failure.	113
Stephane Hessel	The revolutions of my century, the 20th century - the Soviet revolution, or the Chinese, or the revolutions that were fomented in Latin America, such as in Cuba - failed for the most part, a failure which was completely clear by the end of the century.	113
John C. Maxwell	Without failure there is no achievement.	114
John Dewey	Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.	114
Ben Okri	The worst time was 1983. Love and life and everything went wrong. I reached absolute rock bottom. I saw the Minotaur at the bottom of the abyss. I learnt of the harshness of the world and its impartiality to human failure.	114
Bill Cosby	In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.	114
Chiang Kai-shek	Because of my intense hopes for the youth of China, I feel very keenly my responsibility for their future success or failure. The fate of China lies in their hands. The responsibility for organizing and training them to become worthy citizens of China, able to undertake the tasks of Resistance and Reconstruction, is mine; I cannot evade it.	114
Geoffrey Canada	Education is the only billion dollar industry that tolerates abject failure.	114
Henry B. Eyring	The enemy of human happiness as well as the cause of poverty and starvation is not the birth of children. It is the failure of people to do with the earth what God could teach them to do if only they would ask and then obey, for they are agents unto themselves.	114
Irwin Redlener	Poverty leads to hardship and failure.	114
John P. Kotter	The vast majority of large scale change efforts fail. Which means that the probability that you have actually experienced a failure, and your people know that and are pessimistic, therefore, about trying something again, is very high.	114
Samuel Smiles	We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.	114
Sebastian Thrun	Every time I act on a fear, I feel disappointed in myself. I have a lot of fear. If I can quit all fear in my life and all guilt, then I tend to be much, much more living up to my standards. I've never seen a person fail if they didn't fear failure.	114
Vivek Wadhwa	An open-minded and diverse population that readily shares information, encourages experimentation, accepts failure and dispenses with formality and hierarchy is what makes Silicon Valley the successful hub that it is.	114
Bruce Forsyth	In the old days, variety turns like me learned how to cope with failure - we all had nights when we 'died' on stage - but today's youngsters simply don't have that experience. For them, it really is instant make or break time - hence, all the tears and, hence, all the potential emotional damage.	114
Carroll Quigley	The failure of Christianity in the areas west from Sicily was even greater, and was increased by the spread of Arab outlooks and influence to that area, and especially to Spain.	114
Frederick W. Smith	Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.	114
Jonah Hill	I assume everything I do in life is gonna be a failure, and then if it turns up roses, then I'm psyched.	114
Peter Guber	Well, the idea is that failure is an inevitable partner on the road to success and, if you're not willing to confront failure, you can never find out how good you are.	114
Jose Mujica	There are people who say that you can't experiment... That condemns you to failure.	114
Molly Ringwald	I wish I had been more prepared, both for success and for failure, when I was younger.	114
Shekhar Kapur	I am far more comfortable with failure than I ever will be with success.	114
Thomas Haden Church	Their lives have been largely defined by failure and you would think the prospect of marriage, which is supposed to be bountiful and hopeful, it's just really another kind of tangential thing in his life.	114
Malcolm Mclaren	I've always embraced failure as a noble pursuit. It allows you to be anti whatever anyone wants you to be, and to break all the rules.	114
Joseph Barbera	Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought.	114
Marsha Norman	At the heart of the failure of most plays is the inability to carry on a thoughtful conversation about your work with yourself.	114
James F. Byrnes	The carrying out of the Potsdam Agreement has, however, been obstructed by the failure of the Allied Control Council to take the necessary steps to enable the German economy to function as an economic unit.	114
Jim Dale	You cannot learn anything from success, you only learn from failure.	114
Douglas MacArthur	Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.	115
Elbert Hubbard	There is no failure except in no longer trying.	115
Oprah Winfrey	If you're constantly pushing yourself higher, higher, the law of averages - not to mention the myth of Icarus - predicts that you will at some point fall. And when you do, I want you to know this, remember this: There is no such thing as failure.	115
B. C. Forbes	The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.	115
Brennan Manning	Without exposure to potential failure, there is no risk.	115
Earl Warren	The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.	115
Gail Sheehy	Being a pathfinder is to be willing to risk failure and still go on.	115
George Burns	I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.	115
Guy Kawasaki	Ambitious failure, magnificent failure, is a very good thing.	115
James Dyson	Failure is an enigma. You worry about it, and it teaches you something.	115
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.	115
Jonathan Kozol	By far the most important factor in the success or failure of any school, far more important than tests or standards or business-model methods of accountability, is simply attracting the best-educated, most exciting young people into urban schools and keeping them there.	115
Kathy Ireland	But I look at failure as education. In that respect, I am so well-educated.	115
Luc de Clapiers	Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.	115
Henry Petroski	Many of the familiar little things that we use every day have typically evolved over a period of time to a state of familiarity. They balance form and function, elegance and economy, success and failure in ways that are not only acceptable, but also admirable.	115
Michael Korda	Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.	115
Peter Senge	Most leadership strategies are doomed to failure from the outset.	115
Judd Nelson	My Brat Pack buddies and I didn't exactly handle celebrity very well. Success at an early age is far more difficult to handle than failure.	115
Morris West	None of us is guaranteed against failure or corruption of any kind; witness what's going on in the world in this moment, the follies of human nature and the failures of human nature.	115
Russell Pearce	Washington, D.C. is what is broken, not the immigration policies. We have good laws. We have people suffer every day because of government's failure to enforce the law and be respectful to the process we have. We have a pathway to citizenship already in place.	115
David Henry Hwang	We all deal with failure. If you're lucky to have a long career, it's part of the experience.	115
Dolly Parton	I thank God for my failures. Maybe not at the time but after some reflection. I never feel like a failure just because something I tried has failed.	116
Thomas Sowell	Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.	116
Jack Kerouac	My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.	116
Adam Schiff	Our failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq thus far has been deeply troubling, and our intelligence-gathering process needs thorough and unbiased investigation.	116
Edward Abbey	Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.	116
Eric Ries	The attributes for entrepreneurs cut both ways. You need the ability to ignore inconvenient facts and see the world as it should be and not as it is. This inspires people to take huge leaps of faith. But this blindness to facts can be a liability, too. The characteristics that help entrepreneurs succeed can also lead to their failure.	116
J. Paul Getty	A hatred of failure has always been part of my nature.	116
Lily Tomlin	Don't be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.	116
Robert Orben	Don't think of it as failure. Think of it as time-released success.	116
Tony Benn	All war represents a failure of diplomacy.	116
William Hurt	Sometimes people call me a success for all the reasons that make me think I'm a failure.	116
Alexander Wang	I think everyone shares a fear of failure - that you're only as good as your most recent collection. That's definitely a fear, but it's a fear that fuels me, that makes me want to work harder, that makes me take on more challenges.	116
Amos Bronson Alcott	We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.	116
Chen Shui-bian	I understand the harsh feelings and sentiments from my opponents and their supporters because I myself have been defeated twice in my political life in the past and I understand very well it is hard to accept your own failure.	116
Henry Petroski	The paradox is that when we model future designs on past successes, we are inviting failure down the line; when we take into account past failures and anticipate potential new ways in which failure can occur, we are more likely to produce successful designs.	116
Sara Blakely	I failed the LSAT. Basically, if I had not failed, I'd have been a lawyer and there would be no Spanx. I think failure is nothing more than life's way of nudging you that you are off course. My attitude to failure is not attached to outcome, but in not trying. It is liberating.	116
Alana Stewart	I used to think that divorce meant failure, but now I see it more as a step along the path of self-realization and growth.	116
Alexander Payne	I get asked, 'How can you have such failures in your films?' Well, what else is life about? There's some sense of constant failure in something. Humor gives you a distance from it.	116
Scott Weiss	Nothing helps make a leader more approachable than admitting your struggles, screw-ups and behind-the-scenes thinking on hard calls. If the leader makes this a priority, the whole company will be more open and methodical learning from failure.	116
James Lane Allen	To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.	116
Malcolm Mclaren	Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.	116
Roddy Doyle	Schools don't really allow failure and yet it's a valid part of any endeavour, not just writing.	116
Dale Carnegie	Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.	117
Thomas A. Edison	Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.	117
Al Sharpton	In 1999, I was in St. Louis with Martin Luther King III as we led protests against the state's failure to hire minority contractors for highway construction projects. We went at dawn on a summer day with over a thousand people and performed acts of civil disobedience.	117
Dean Kamen	My biggest failure is I have too many to talk about.	117
Eric Ries	I can't say I'm not grateful to have journalists writing about me as a genius. But I know it's not true. I'm not confused. I understand that success comes through a lot of failure and a lot of very embarrassing failure. People want to create the next Facebook, but they are too afraid to create the next Facemash.	117
Evel Knievel	If you fall during your life, it doesn't matter. You're never a failure as long as you try to get up.	117
Hamish Bowles	This is how I started: My mom was crazy for antique shops and junk shops, and my sister and I would play this game where, if we were driving with my parents and saw a junk shop or an antique shop, we'd scream at the top of our lungs. My poor father would have heart failure and screech to a halt, and we'd leap out and go and explore.	117
Kevin Costner	Failure doesn't kill you... it increases your desire to make something happen.	117
Robert H. Schuller	If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.	117
Umberto Eco	Translation is the art of failure.	117
Arlie Russell Hochschild	Has Bill Clinton inspired idealism in the young, as he himself was inspired by John F. Kennedy? Or has he actually reduced their idealism? Surely part of the answer lies in Clinton's personal moral lapse with Monica Lewinsky. But more important was his sin of omission - his failure to embrace a moral cause beyond popularity.	117
Joe Strummer	The hippy movement was a failure.	117
Anupam Kher	Every individual suffers from the fear of failure, but you can change your destiny only when you overcome it.	117
Marvin Minsky	There was a failure to recognize the deep problems in AI; for instance, those captured in Blocks World. The people building physical robots learned nothing.	117
Johann Most	Is anarchism possible? The failure of attempts to attain freedom does not mean the cause is lost.	117
Amelia Earhart	Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.	118
E. O. Wilson	If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.	118
Edsger Dijkstra	Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.	118
Orison Swett Marden	Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.	118
Paul Johnson	Is there any possibility of giving international air travel, which we all need and use and hate, a touch of glamour, or even of reliable, soulless efficiency? I suspect future historians will puzzle over our failure. But by then, of course, we shall be in the age of mass space travel, with its fresh and unimaginable crop of horrors.	118
Russell Simmons	People are afraid of failure - they don't like to work so hard and have people keep saying, 'No.' I think that's what people fear most.	118
Alan Arkin	It's - everybody's looking at the bottom line all the time, and failure doesn't look good on the bottom line, and yet you don't learn anything without failing.	118
Beau Willimon	You always want to try, in everything you do, to attempt something you've never tried before, and the only way to succeed at that is through failure, and the only way to succeed through failure is just banging your head against the wall over and over until you get to that interesting thing on the other side.	118
Eleanor Catton	I see disappointment as something small and aggregate rather than something unified or great. With a little effort, every failure can be turned into something good.	118
Ron Perlman	I'm fully aware that things that resonate and become real hits are the exception to the rule, so much so that I've wired myself for failure.	118
Suki Waterhouse	Life is nothing but a bunch of experiences. There's no such thing as success or failure.	118
William T. Vollmann	Everybody is an expert on one thing - that's what I learned in my high school journalism class - and that's, of course, his own life. And everybody deserves to live and have his story told. And if it doesn't seem like an interesting story, then that's the failure of the listener, or the journalist who retells it badly.	118
Sue Townsend	Yes - I am usually overweight. I have had to be interested in diet because of being diabetic for 30 years and having kidney failure.	118
Malcolm Mclaren	Art school had taught me it was far better to be a flamboyant failure than any kind of benign success.	118
Nigel Farage	The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed.	119
Thomas Sowell	One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.	119
Abraham Maslow	One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.	119
Amelia Earhart	Please know that I am aware of the hazards. I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be a challenge to others.	119
Og Mandino	Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success.	119
Alfred Adler	No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma - but we make out of them just what suits our purposes.	119
Ann Voskamp	I think the fall in Eden was ultimately a failure to give thanks.	119
Bernard Baruch	Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures.	119
Charles Duhigg	When people have a willpower failure, it's because they haven't anticipated a situation that's going to come along.	119
Rain	The more times I was turned down, the more I believed I was getting closer to making it. A lot of people in Korea say that failure is the mother of success, so I believed that more times I failed, the more likely I was to succeed.	119
Vijay Mallya	Everybody keeps saying that India's a poor country. Yes, we have poverty. But I blame the government of India, the political establishment, for their failure to educate and therefore their failure to control the poverty.	119
Jane McGonigal	When we're in game worlds, I believe that many of us become the best version of ourselves: the most likely to help at a moment's notice. The most likely to stick with a problem as long as it takes. To get up after failure and try again.	119
Lady Gregory	The way most people fail is in not keeping up the heart.	119
John Battelle	I like Diaspora because it's audacious, it's driven by passion, and it's very, very hard to do. After all, who in their right mind would set as a goal taking on Facebook? That's sort of like deciding to build a better search engine - very expensive, with a high likelihood of failure.	119
John Banville	I'm full of self-doubt. I doubt everything I do. Everything I do is a failure.	119
Steven Soderbergh	I'm very comfortable with failure. I'm very comfortable being the guy who disappoints people.	119
W. Clement Stone	Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.	120
Arnold J. Toynbee	A life which does not go into action is a failure.	120
Bryant H. McGill	While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure.	120
Carlos Ghosn	You'll never convince me there is a hopeless situation or there is any finality in any success or any failure.	120
Christian Nestell Bovee	A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.	120
Emma Watson	I've probably earned the right to screw up a few times. I don't want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about.	120
George Herbert	Sometimes the best gain is to lose.	120
Mel Gibson	Every time you go out there to do something, you wonder if you can do it. There's no assured success. There's no secret recipe for success. Every time you go out there, you go out there with the possibility of great failure.	120
Muhammad Ali Jinnah	Failure is a word unknown to me.	120
Orhan Pamuk	Good fiction is about asserting the beauties of the world, inventing a new, positive thing. Where am I going to get that? And it should be original; it should not be cliched. So the way I looked at history was not to accuse it of failure.	120
Robert Browning	A minute's success pays the failure of years.	120
Satya Nadella	In our business, things look like a failure until they're not. It's pretty binary transitions.	120
John O'Donohue	A lot of suffering is just getting rid of dross in yourself, and lingering and hanging in the darkness is often - I say this against myself - a failure of imagination, to imagine the door into the light.	120
John W. Gardner	One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.	120
Max Beerbohm	There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success.	120
Rupert Everett	We now live in a world where the only thing to have is success, but failure is marvelous. It's fertiliser, it's like living fertiliser, because you're forced on yourself.	120
Shane Smith	I think if you look at the failure of journalism in the modern age, then I don't want to be called a journalist.	120
Stuart Rose	Most employees want to be involved in a successful business and most employees are happy for people running successful businesses to be paid a reasonable wage and a market rate for it, provided they understand the reason. What they hate most of all is pay for failure.	120
Andrew Vachss	I believe my publisher has shown a great deal of faith in me over a lot of years but I'm not prepared to be so arrogant to say that the long-term literary value of my work would compensate them for a financial failure.	120
Ralph Waldo Emerson	The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.	121
Ernest Hemingway	Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?	121
Ben Shapiro	The story of Detroit's bankruptcy was simple enough: Allow capitalism to grow the city, campaign against income inequality, tax the job creators until they flee, increase government spending in order to boost employment, promise generous pension plans to keep people voting for failure. Rinse, wash and repeat.	121
Bill Parcells	Success is never final, but failure can be.	121
James Allen	They who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure.	121
Lisa Marie Presley	I think I've failed every test I've ever taken. If there was a failure I would have been it.	121
Samuel Smiles	It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.	121
Scott Adams	The only risk of failure is promotion.	121
T. Boone Pickens	I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.	121
Henry Petroski	Engineering is achieving function while avoiding failure.	121
Joyce Brothers	The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.	121
Michael Korda	This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.	121
Philipp Meyer	When you hold things back, when you don't commit completely to your ideas and trust completely in your own instincts, you are guaranteeing your own failure - even if you end up having commercial success.	121
Annette Funicello	The mere thought of divorce terrified me. To me, divorce symbolized failure.	121
Arnold Schwarzenegger	Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.	122
Tennessee Williams	Success and failure are equally disastrous.	122
Zig Ziglar	Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.	122
Kin Hubbard	All the world loves a good loser.	122
Orison Swett Marden	Regard every suggestion that your life may be a failure, that you are not made like those who succeed, and that success is not for you, as a traitor, and expel it from your mind as you would a thief from your house.	122
T. Boone Pickens	I have always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.	122
Andrew Ross Sorkin	No one suggested Lehman deserved to be saved. But the argument has been made that the crisis might have been less severe if it had been saved, because Lehman's failure created remarkable uncertainty in the market as investors became confused about the role of the government and whether it was picking winners and losers.	122
James Surowiecki	Solyndra's failure isn't a reason for the government to give up on alternative energy, any more than the failure of Pets.com during the Internet bubble means that venture capital should steer clear of tech projects.	122
Leonard Mlodinow	A failure doesn't mean you are unworthy, nor does it preclude success on the next try.	122
Doc Hastings	As efforts to fix this failure at the Veterans Administration continue, I also intend to persist in demanding answers and action on the establishment of a new clinic to serve the veterans in North Central Washington.	122
Confucius	Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.	123
Theodore Roosevelt	The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.	123
Coco Chanel	Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.	123
Napoleon Hill	Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.	123
Jawaharlal Nehru	Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.	123
Jerry Falwell	If you're not a born-again Christian, you're a failure as a human being.	123
Norman Cousins	The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.	123
Penn Jillette	Bacon is so good by itself that to put it in any other food is an admission of failure. You're basically saying, 'I can't make this other food taste good, so I'll throw in bacon.'	123
Salman Rushdie	If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent.	123
Sharon Stone	I don't think anybody whose ever been divorced can tell you divorce is easy or fun or feels like anything other than a tremendous failure.	123
Zac Goldsmith	The Conservatives are a confusing lot. They first denied climate change was a serious issue and then suggested strengthening the nuclear industry as a solution to it. They oppose the European Union, but support joining North American Free Trade Agreement, despite its obvious failure.	123
Zbigniew Brzezinski	In Iraq we must succeed. Failure is not an option.	123
Andrew Ross Sorkin	In truth, in the fairy-tale version of bailing out Lehman, the next domino, A.I.G., would have fallen even harder. If the politics of bailing out Lehman were bad, the politics of bailing out A.I.G. would have been worse. And the systemic risk that a failure of A.I.G. posed was orders of magnitude greater than Lehman's collapse.	123
Bryce Dallas Howard	I've learned to think in terms of having a long career. Actors can have very long careers that last until the day we die, but there will be moments when you'll feel like you're a failure or when you're disappointed in yourself.	123
Henry Petroski	I emphasize that virtually every engineering calculation is ultimately a failure calculation, because without a failure criterion against which to measure the calculated result, it is a meaningless number.	123
Michael Fassbender	We feel a lot of pressure about looking silly or appearing weak, whatever that means, or being a failure. You have to keep in your head: what's the worst that can happen?	123
Chang-Rae Lee	After college, I was living in New York and wrote furiously, a huge novel that I knew was a failure. I hoped that the book would work, but to be honest, I think I knew it would never work, even as I was finishing it.	123
Dan O'Brien	I've always had to have some kind of failure before I was successful.	123
Benjamin Franklin	Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.	124
Dan Quayle	If we don't succeed we run the risk of failure.	124
J. K. Rowling	Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.	124
Richard Branson	Well, I think that there's a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you're likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line.	124
Ben Stiller	The failure of The Cable Guy impacted my career. I had to start writing and acting again.	124
Bodhidharma	But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.	124
Gustav Mahler	The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause.	124
Hugh Grant	The only reason my work seems to be eclectic up to a certain period is because I was a failure as an actor.	124
Olga Kurylenko	I don't see divorce as a failure. I see it as the end to a story. In a story, everything has an end and a beginning.	124
Paul Watson	I've had a lot of disappointments. I think my biggest disappointment is the failure of elected officials to make good on their promises in regards to the environment or anything else, really. I have very little faith in politicians.	124
Satya Nadella	It's not about the failure, it's about learning from the failures. Failure itself cannot be celebrated.	124
Andrew Ross Sorkin	The failure of Lehman may have allowed the government to do more to prop up the economy than it otherwise could.	124
Carol Moseley Braun	The failure in Ohio to have adequate voting capacity for the people who were registered and eligible to vote was an absolute denial of their right to vote.	124
Henry Petroski	I employ case studies of failure into my courses, emphasizing that they teach us much more than studies of success. It is not that success stories cannot serve as models of good design or as exemplars of creative engineering. They can do that, but they cannot teach us how close to failure they are.	124
Nick Frost	Someone once pulled me aside and said it was all right to succeed, and I realised that I knew what failure felt like, but I didn't know what success felt like. I've carried that with me ever since.	124
Denis Waitley	To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.	125
Arsene Wenger	Young players need freedom of expression to develop as creative players... they should be encouraged to try skills without fear of failure.	125
David Hasselhoff	Failure usually works for me in the end.	125
Irving Babbitt	To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the most difficult of all, and so important, withal, that nations have perished from their failure to achieve it.	125
Rudy Giuliani	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.	125
Sylvester Stallone	I have a lack of fear, whereas in the past the fear of failure was a powerful motivator. Anyway, I have great expectations for the future, but I just don't know if I'm the monarch of all I survey.	125
Antony Gormley	Due to the failure of politics, which has become a process of middle-management, art has become one of the last open spaces to question core beliefs and to design a viable future. Art becomes an open space where we can ask fundamental questions about ourselves.	125
Elias Canetti	The paranoiac is the exact image of the ruler. The only difference is their position in the world. One might even think the paranoiac the more impressive of the two because he is sufficient unto himself and cannot be shaken by failure.	125
Matt Taibbi	The failure to work out sensible budgets makes it impossible for government agencies to make long-term plans, and instead leaves them scrambling to spend money in the short term.	125
S. Jay Olshansky	The modern rise of Alzheimer's Disease in the twentieth century is not a sign of failure. It's a sign of success. Success in living long enough to see that disease expressed.	125
James Howard Kunstler	White America is tortured by black America's failure to thrive, and all that guilt and anxiety has only gotten worse as a substantial quota of white America loses its own footing in the middle class and plunges into the rough country of joblessness, hopelessness, and government dependency.	125
George Eliot	Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.	126
Denis Waitley	Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.	126
Ben Shapiro	Primarily affecting low-information voters and members of the mainstream media, Obama Worship Syndrome attributes impossible capabilities to Obama's political opponents, finds excuses for every Obama failure in everyone around him and praises the president as the finest politician - nay, human being - of our time.	126
Russell Simmons	I think I'm less afraid of failure than some others.	126
Demi Moore	Unwillingness to risk failure is always there, but it gets harder when you feel you have more to lose.	126
Lillian Hellman	Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.	126
Rosabeth Moss Kanter	Confidence is contagious, but so is failure. Even the Yankees will lose if you persuade them that they will.	126
Stephen Rodrick	In college football, fans wallow in a culture of failure. Unless you root for Miami, you sadly wait for disaster to strike your team in a manner not seen outside of Fenway Park.	126
John McCarthy	Of course, Third World leaders love you. By ascribing third world ills to First World sins, you absolve them of blame for their countries' failure to advance.	126
J. K. Rowling	Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.	201
Napoleon Hill	The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.	201
Ravi Zacharias	Success is more difficult to handle than failure.	201
Anna Quindlen	The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible; that is, that one is male and the other female.	201
Fred Allen	Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats; then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.	201
Graham Greene	Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.	201
Nick Nolte	It's failure, really, that you grow by, although nobody likes to experience it.	201
Robert Dallek	Like Lyndon Johnson, President Obama understands that timidity in a time of troubles is a prescription for failure.	201
Gavin DeGraw	So I try not to have any actual expectations for myself for any level of success or failure.	201
Madeleine M. Kunin	Remember what Susan B. Anthony said? 'Failure is impossible.' Failure is possible if women don't vote.	201
Henry Rollins	We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.	202
Barry Ritholtz	It is important for investors to understand what they do and don't know. Learn to recognize that you cannot possibly know what is going to happen in the future, and any investment plan that is dependent on accurately forecasting where markets will be next year is doomed to failure.	202
Naveen Jain	Successful entrepreneurs find the balance between listening to their inner voice and staying persistent in driving for success - because sometimes success is waiting right across from the transitional bump that's disguised as failure.	202
Chad Hurley	When I started running cross-country and track in high school, literally every race was a failure.	202
Henry Petroski	Relying on nothing but scientific knowledge to produce an engineering solution is to invite frustration at best and failure at worst.	202
James Cash Penney	I believe in trusting men, not only once but twice - in giving a failure another chance.	202
Michael Morpurgo	Admitting failure is quite cleansing, but never - pleasurable.	202
Sarah McLachlan	Coming to terms with the fact that my marriage was a failure was devastating and very difficult.	202
James Howard Kunstler	I think that Obama's failure to reestablish the rule of law in money matters is the most damaging thing that he's done - and perhaps the most damaging thing that has happened in American politics in my lifetime. Because once the rule of law is absent in money matters, then anything really goes in politics.	202
Harry S Truman	My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.	203
Jean-Paul Sartre	All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.	203
Thomas A. Edison	Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.	203
Barton Gellman	First developed as a weapon by the U.S. Army, VX is an oily, odorless and tasteless liquid that kills on contact with the skin or when inhaled in aerosol form. Like other nerve agents, it is treatable in the first minutes after exposure but otherwise leads swiftly to fatal convulsions and respiratory failure.	203
Charles Kettering	We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.	203
George Muller	If we say we trust in Him, but in reality do not, then God, taking us at our word, lets us see that we do not really confide in Him; and hence failure arises.	203
James Russell Lowell	Not failure, but low aim, is crime.	203
Peter Diamandis	If anyone has seen success and failure on a global stage, it's my friend Steve Forbes.	203
Chad Hurley	Running helped me learn how to deal with failure, and failure is a big part of the Internet business.	203
Henry Petroski	Case studies of failure should be made a part of the vocabulary of every engineer so that he or she can recall or recite them when something in a new design or design process is suggestive of what went wrong in the case study.	203
Malcolm X	In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.	204
Napoleon Hill	Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.	204
Graham Greene	Failure too is a form of death.	204
Ethan Hawke	The biggest problem in my life is trying to be the kind of man that I want to be, the father that I want to be, and how to process the failure of my marriage.	204
Susan B. Anthony	Failure is impossible.	205
Dave Matthews	I fear that our true motivation is about oil and our own flailing economy; about the failure to destroy Al Qaeda and about revenge.	205
Karen Armstrong	Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength.	205
Mo Ibrahim	People never confess to failure. They should.	205
Peter Guber	Beside every great success are the seeds of enormous failure. In every failure, there's the opportunity seeds of great success. They're not miles apart. So if they're that close together, and if you're really working, you're always gonna have that likelihood that something's not going to work.	205
Ben Okri	The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater the secret failure.	206
Clayton M. Christensen	The dumb-manager theory of business problems just didn't hold water for me. There had to be a deeper reason why smart people would make decisions that lead to failure.	206
Gail Sheehy	In my memoir, I admit that I've been as fearful of success as of failure. In fact, when 'Passages' was published, I so dreaded bad reviews that I ran away to Italy with a girlfriend and our children to hide out.	206
James Dyson	Enjoy failure and learn from it. You can never learn from success.	206
James Russell Lowell	Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.	206
Mario Andretti	If you're so afraid of failure, you will never succeed. You have to take chances.	206
Naveen Jain	How important is failure - yes, failure - to the health of a thriving, innovative business? So important that Ratan Tata, chairman of India's largest corporation, gives an annual award to the employee who comes up with the best idea that failed.	206
Oriana Fallaci	War is something Arafat sends others to do for him. That is, the poor souls who believe in him. This pompous incompetent caused the failure of the Camp David negotiations, Clinton's mediation.	206
Robert Dallek	Vietnam was a palpable failure. And of course, in retrospect, it was even more clearly a disaster and a failure than maybe people understood at the time.	206
Saint Basil	Indulging in unrestrained and immoderate laughter is a sign of intemperance, of a want of control over one's emotions, and of failure to repress the soul's frivolity by a stern use of reason.	206
Simon Cowell	You don't go into anything contemplating failure, because if you did, you wouldn't make it.	206
Amy Tan	I didn't fear failure. I expected failure.	206
Ryan Seacrest	Failure? Scared to death of it.	206
Glenn Beck	Without failure there is no sweetness in success. There's no understanding of it.	207
Naveen Jain	Call it the Tiger Mom effect: In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option.	207
Sarah McLachlan	Coming to terms with the fact that my marriage was a failure was devastating and very difficult. I blamed myself for a lot of things. It took me a very long time to get over it.	207
Simon Sinek	The most effective leaders are actually better at guarding against danger when they acknowledge it that it exists. Cowards, in contrast, cling to the hope that failure will never happen and may be sloppy in the face of danger - not because they don't acknowledge that it exists, but because they are just too afraid of it to look it in the eye.	208
Sandra Bullock	I was afraid of being a failure, of not having the best time or of being chicken. But every year I get older I think, What was I fearing last year?' You forget. And then you move on.	208
Wesley Snipes	I was convicted of three misdemeanors of willful failure to file a form.	208
William James	There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.	209
Audre Lorde	The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower.	209
Ravi Zacharias	By the time I was a young man, I lived with two deep struggles: I longed to become a cricketer, and I performed miserably in school. Cricket and tennis were all that I lived for. In India, this was a formula for failure.	209
Brett Favre	I may be a successful football player, but I feel like such a failure.	209
H. L. Mencken	The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.	210
Woody Allen	If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.	210
Henry Ward Beecher	Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.	210
John Keats	There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.	210
Anna Quindlen	I'm sure not afraid of success and I've learned not to be afraid of failure. The only thing I'm afraid of now is of being someone I don't like much.	210
Nassim Nicholas Taleb	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.	210
Suze Orman	So many financial dreams are thwarted by the failure to act upon good intentions.	210
Ayelet Waldman	Before I was married, I didn't consider my failure to manage even basic hand tools a feminist inadequacy. I thought it had more to do with being Jewish. The Jews I knew growing up didn't do 'do-it-yourself.' When my father needed to hammer something he generally used his shoe, and the only real tool he owned was a pair of needle-nose pliers.	210
James Nesbitt	Brain surgeons are dealing with the very last thread of life, and they have to be very confident, but I think they tend to remember their failures rather than their successes, and that must be very hard. Who do you share that failure with? That's why their personal lives are often disastrous.	210
Buddha	The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.	211
Les Brown	Where do we enroll in Life 101? Where are the classes dealing with the loss of a job, the death of a loved one, the failure of a relationship? Unfortunately, those lessons are mostly learned through trial by fire and the school of hard knocks.	211
Elbert Hubbard	Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure.	211
Bill O'Reilly	Sociologists well understand that chaos at home causes violent behavior, educational failure and social alienation among children. Yet, many of us in America stay far, far away from this topic. That in itself is a national scandal. Bad parenting is gravely harming this nation.	211
Charles Kettering	It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.	211
Brooke Shields	I would have thought that I would have become one of those parents - just because it's my nature to be such a perfectionist - that anything falling short, I would have seen as a failure. But something has happened to me over the past few years - it's not Zen, believe me, I'm not at all Zen - but I'm so appreciative of even the chaos.	211
Elon Musk	The reality is gas prices should be much more expensive then they are because we're not incorporating the true damage to the environment and the hidden costs of mining oil and transporting it to the U.S. Whenever you have an unpriced externality, you have a bit of a market failure, to the degree that eternality remains unpriced.	212
Nassim Nicholas Taleb	What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure.	212
Lao Tzu	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.	213
John C. Maxwell	Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them.	213
Tennessee Williams	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.	213
Alan Greenspan	The very nature of finance is that it cannot be profitable unless it is significantly leveraged... and as long as there is debt, there can be failure and contagion.	213
Bill Dedman	Federal regulations forbid delaying inspections for fracture-critical bridges like the fallen Minneapolis bridge - the kind with a lack of redundancy in design, so that a single failure in a load-bearing part can cause the entire bridge to collapse.	213
Martha Beck	Fact: From quitting smoking to skiing, we succeed to the degree we try, fail, and learn. Studies show that people who worry about mistakes shut down, but those who are relaxed about doing badly soon learn to do well. Success is built on failure.	213
Roger Daltrey	I don't think there's any way it could have failed. We don't know failure in this band. We didn't know failure. We got to know it a little after awhile but at that time there was no such word.	213
Daisaku Ikeda	Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result? Could the underlying cause be our failure to correctly understand the true nature of happiness?	214
Dee Dee Myers	The exposed nature of life in the public square affects leaders' attitudes toward risk - and failure.	214
Laurence J. Peter	The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.	214
Douglas Coupland	Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure.	215
Alejandro Jodorowsky	Failure doesn't exist. It's only a change of direction.	216
Tony Robbins	There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.	217
Al Gore	If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.	217
Ben Shapiro	Historically, defense spending cuts have preceded increased international turmoil as America's global enemies sense a failure of will.	217
Vivek Wadhwa	No matter how well things are going, failure and disaster are just around the corner. So celebrate the good, but be ready for the bad.	217
John Ortberg	Sloth is the failure to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done - like the kamikaze pilot who flew seventeen missions.	217
Bryant H. McGill	Do not let your ambitions become a sanctuary for your failures.	218
Harvey Fierstein	In Torch Song, I did that character almost non-stop from 1978 until I made the movie in 1987. Then I had some failure, which also colors how you react to doing other things.	218
Mike Krzyzewski	I've tried to handle winning well, so that maybe we'll win again, but I've also tried to handle failure well. If those serve as good examples for teachers and kids, then I hope that would be a contribution I have made to sport. Not just basketball, but to sport.	218
Nolan Bushnell	Every company needs to have a skunkworks, to try things that have a high probability of failing. You try to minimize failure, but at the same time, if you're not willing to try things that are inherently risky, you're not going to make progress.	218
Marshall McLuhan	Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think.	219
Daniel Kahneman	An investment said to have an 80% chance of success sounds far more attractive than one with a 20% chance of failure. The mind can't easily recognize that they are the same.	219
Phil McGraw	If you've gone into a marriage and you haven't been clear about how you're going to handle money, how you want to raise kids, who is going to work or stay home or what have you, then you've set yourself up for failure.	220
Jimmy Carter	It's not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.	220
Aeschylus	The wisest of the wise may err.	220
Eric Ries	Our educational system is not preparing people for the 21st Century. Failure is an essential part of entrepreneurship. If you work hard, you can get an 'A' pretty much guaranteed, but in entrepreneurship, that's not how it works.	220
John Mayer	Who I am as a guitarist is defined by my failure to become Jimi Hendrix.	220
Scott Adams	Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive.	220
James Altucher	My feeling, based on my own experience, is that aiming for grandiosity is the fastest route to failure.	220
Michael Ignatieff	I teach students that what people say about failure in politics is mostly wrong. People always told me, 'They'll praise you on your way up and kick you on your way down.' That wasn't my experience. I can't walk down the street in Toronto without someone coming up and saying hello.	220
Lyndon B. Johnson	The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.	221
Paulo Coelho	I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.	222
Bernie Siegel	What I try to get physically healthy people to understand is that they're going to die someday. There is no way out. And dying isn't failure, but not living is, so make use of your time. Don't keeping waiting.	222
Jesse Jackson	Success needs no explanation. Failure does not have one that matters.	222
Miley Cyrus	There's no right or wrong, success or failure.	222
Serj Tankian	Civilization is a failure. We need to think what we can do together in love and peace.	222
Troy Polamalu	I don't look at football as a violent, barbaric sport. It's a very spiritual sport, especially for someone facing the challenges during a game: the fear of failure, the fear of getting too big an ego, of making a mistake and everybody criticizing you.	222
James Taylor	It's probably foolish to expect relationships to go on forever and to say that because something only lasts 10 years, it's a failure.	222
Mandy Moore	I can plunk out enough chords to write a song, but I'm completely afraid to play guitar in front of other people. It's a fear of failure, I guess.	223
Elliott Abrams	In Arab capitals, the failure of the United States to stop Iran's nuclear program is understood as American weakness in the struggle for dominance in the Middle East, making additional cooperation from Arab leaders on Israeli-Palestinian issues even less likely.	224
Robert Dallek	The consequence of the Bay of Pigs failure wasn't an acceptance of Castro and his control of Cuba but, rather, a renewed determination to bring him down by stealth.	224
Douglas Coupland	Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them.	225
Dylan Moran	The terror of failure can make you feel like a failure. So a bunch of people think you're not very good at your thing. How much do you invest in what they say? How much do you care? Failure is not putting yourself on the line.	225
Howard Schultz	I think my whole life, because of where I came from, I had a fear of failure.	225
Nancy Gibbs	Modesty means admitting the possibility of error, subsuming the self for the good of the whole, remaining open to surprise and the gifts that only failure can bring. There are many ways to practice it. Try taking up golf. Or making your own bagels. Or raising a teenager.	225
John James Audubon	I looked long and carefully at the picture of a stag painted by Landseer - the style was good, and the brush was handled with fine effect; but he fails in copying Nature, without which the best work will be a failure.	225
Michael Franti	My greatest sense of accomplishment has come from having two amazing sons, but it's also a paradox in that the times when I felt like the biggest failure have been times when I felt like, as a parent, I wasn't making the right decisions or succeeding in the way that I should.	225
Benjamin Disraeli	Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.	226
George Eliot	There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.	226
Ben Bernanke	The failure of Lehman Brothers demonstrated that liquidity provision by the Federal Reserve would not be sufficient to stop the crisis; substantial fiscal resources were necessary.	226
Douglas Coupland	Sometimes failure isn't an opportunity in disguise, it's just you.	226
Michael Leunig	A street full of electric light is a sign of civic failure and is an insulting injury to the soul. Shutting out the night is as disastrous as shutting out the light.	226
Oscar Wilde	Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.	301
Eckhart Tolle	Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all fear is the ego's fear of death, of annihilation. To the ego, death is always just around the corner. In this mind-identified state, fear of death affects every aspect of your life.	301
Zig Ziglar	If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.	301
Douglas Coupland	If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure.	301
Sonia Sotomayor	You know, failure hurts. Any kind of failure stings. If you live in the sting, you will - undoubtedly - fail. My way of getting past the sting is to say no, I'm just not going to let this get me down.	301
Jeb Bush	Low standards are a tactic that takes pressure off teachers' unions by accepting mediocrity and failure for kids.	301
Ben Carson	With everything that is complex, we learn. If you don't learn, then it's an utter and abject failure. If you do learn, and you're able to apply that to the next situation, then you take away a measure of success.	302
Oprah Winfrey	Being human means you will make mistakes. And you will make mistakes, because failure is God's way of moving you in another direction.	302
Zig Ziglar	You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.	302
Gail Collins	The Tea Party people say they're angry about socialism, but maybe they're really angry about capitalism. If there's a sense of being looked down upon, it's that sense of failure that's built into a system that assures everyone they can make it to the top, but then reserves the top for only a tiny fraction of the strivers.	302
Naveen Jain	When you experience a failure as a leader, don't hide it - talk about it. Your missed opportunity will encourage others to take risks.	302
Carl Sandburg	All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.	303
Orlando Bloom	Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.	303
Will Self	This is the paradox for me: in failure alone is there any possibility of success. I don't think I'm alone in this - nor do I think it's an attitude that only prevails among people whose work is obviously 'creative'.	303
Javier Bardem	There is no middle ground in Hollywood; you're a failure or you're a success. That mentality is wild.	303
George Eliot	There are many victories worse than a defeat.	304
Alan Rickman	I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure.	304
Daniel Radcliffe	I know it wouldn't seem like I've had a lot of failure in my career, but there are things that I regard as failures, when I look at certain performances and go, 'That's not good enough.'	304
Matthew McConaughey	I've never been a jealous person, and I've never felt built up by someone else's failure - that's a cheap thrill.	304
Orlando Bloom	There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.	304
Randeep Hooda	I didn't allow failure to break my heart. So I wouldn't allow success to bloat my head.	304
John Ortberg	When preaching is done right, it can change lives. When it's done badly, my failure goes beyond the merely human.	305
Elon Musk	If something's important enough, you should try. Even if you - the probable outcome is failure.	306
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.	If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure.	306
James A. Baldwin	The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide.	306
Jim Rohn	Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.	307
Abraham Lincoln	My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.	308
Napoleon Hill	Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.	308
Oprah Winfrey	Every stumble is not a fall, and every fall does not mean failure.	308
Cate Blanchett	I don't understand a way to work other than bold-facedly running towards failure.	308
Susan Sontag	Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.	308
Jim Rohn	Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.	309
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam	All wars signify the failure of conflict resolution mechanisms, and they need post-war rebuilding of faith, trust and confidence.	309
Mae West	To err is human, but it feels divine.	309
Sylvester Stallone	Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure.	309
Moby	When you say 'failure,' that seems really dramatic, but a lot of failure is just really depressing and mundane. I remember the first time I ever played a concert in Italy. I played a venue that held 900 people, and I think five people showed up. It wasn't a big, 'John Carter of Mars' type failure. It wasn't dramatic; it was just depressing.	309
Hunter S. Thompson	One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way. When failure starts to feel normal in your life or your work or even your darkest vices, you won't have to go looking for trouble, because trouble will find you. Count on it.	310
John C. Maxwell	Inability to make decisions is one of the principal reasons executives fail. Deficiency in decision-making ranks much higher than lack of specific knowledge or technical know-how as an indicator of leadership failure.	310
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam	When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realise that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives.	311
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.	312
Bill Dedman	Some parents believe that competition helps prepare children to succeed. Others fear that their children will not be able to handle failure.	312
Michio Kaku	Already from your own cells scientists can grow skin, cartilage, noses, blood vessels, bladders and windpipes. In the future, scientists will grow more complex organs, like livers and kidneys. The phrase 'organ failure' will disappear.	313
Oprah Winfrey	I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.	314
Henry Miller	No matter how vast, how total, the failure of man here on earth, the work of man will be resumed elsewhere. War leaders talk of resuming operations on this front and that, but man's front embraces the whole universe.	314
Michele Bachmann	People think when you have a, quote, 'bank failure,' that that is the end of the bank. And it isn't necessarily.	314
Marjane Satrapi	If it's a good work of adaptation, the book should remain a book and the film should remain a film, and you should not necessarily read the book to see the film. If you do need that, then that means that it's a failure. That is what I think.	316
Tina Brown	I think that big, sort of theatrical relaunches tend to set you up for failure and hype.	316
Barack Obama	The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I, therefore, intend to oppose the effort to increase America's debt.	317
Elbert Hubbard	A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.	320
Elbert Hubbard	The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.	321
Camille Paglia	Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo.	321
Napoleon Hill	No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.	322
Joyce Meyer	We will all fail in life, but nobody has to be a failure. Failing at a thing doesn't make you a failure. You are only a failure when you quit trying.	322
Gordon B. Hinckley	I feel to invite women everywhere to rise to the great potential within you. I do not ask that you reach beyond your capacity. I hope you will not nag yourselves with thoughts of failure. I hope you will not try to set goals far beyond your capacity to achieve. I hope you will simply do what you can do in the best way you know.	322
Sylvester Stallone	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.	322
Tullian Tchividjian	What is indisputable is the fact that unbelief is the force that gives birth to all of our bad behavior and every moral failure. It is the root.	322
Orison Swett Marden	The most irresistible charm of youth is its bubbling enthusiasm. Youth sees no darkness ahead - no defile that has no outlet - it forgets that there is such a thing as failure in the world and believes that mankind has been waiting all these centuries for him to come and be the liberator of truth and energy and beauty.	323
Betty White	If you get into a Broadway show and it doesn't work, you're a failure. And if it does work, you may be stuck for who knows how long. It just doesn't sound great to me!	324
Paul Auster	Movies are not novels, and that's why, when filmmakers try to adapt novels, particularly long or complex novels, the result is almost always failure. It can't be done.	324
Albert Einstein	I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.	325
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.	401
Francis Ford Coppola	The only TV I would be interested in exploring would be live television. There's no substitute for a team of artists performing at their peak live when failure is possible. It's a high-wire act. That excites me.	401
Rick Perry	We know there is no such thing as freedom without the risk of failure.	401
Napoleon Hill	Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.	402
Eric Hoffer	It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression.	402
Richard Branson	A passionate belief in your business and personal objectives can make all the difference between success and failure. If you aren't proud of what you're doing, why should anybody else be?	405
Mike Birbiglia	I feel that marriage can lead to the ultimate rejection and failure and divorce and things we all fear.	405
Trent Reznor	I realized that I was afraid to really, really try something, 100%, because I had never reached true failure.	405
Barack Obama	The Bush Administration's failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world.	408
George Eliot	The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.	408
John Wooden	Failure is never fatal. But failure to change can and might be.	408
Deepak Chopra	Success comes when people act together; failure tends to happen alone.	410
Ernest Hemingway	Man is not made for defeat.	415
Barack Obama	In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.	417
George Bernard Shaw	When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.	417
Dick Cavett	The very phrase 'Oscar night' used to accelerate my pulse. For one thing - dating myself - it meant Bob Hope. He always had good, strong jokes, that faultless delivery, and always a new joke about his own films' failure - once again - to be honored.	422
Nelson Mandela	In the 1940s, traveling for an African was a complicated process. All Africans over the age of sixteen were compelled to carry 'Native passes' issued by the Native Affairs Department and were required to show that pass to any white policeman, civil servant, or employer. Failure to do so could mean arrest, trial, a jail sentence or fine.	423
Richard Branson	Treat failure as a lesson on how not to approach achieving a goal, and then use that learning to improve your chances of success when you try again. Failure is only the end if you decide to stop.	424
Joyce Carol Oates	I'm drawn to failure. I feel like I'm contending with it constantly in my own life.	426
David Suzuki	The failure of world leaders to act on the critical issue of global warming is often blamed on economic considerations.	501
George Eliot	I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.	508
George Clooney	My biggest fear is doing the same things 10 years from now. That would be a failure. It's something you have to constantly reassess, and asking yourself what you are going to do next makes it a good, long full journey.	509
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam	I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.	513
Penn Jillette	A joke is a way to say, 'I'm going to do something funny now. If I don't get a laugh at the end, I'm a failure.'	513
Ben Bernanke	Given the extent of the exposures of major banks around the world to A.I.G., and in light of the extreme fragility of the system, there was a significant risk that A.I.G.'s failure could have sparked a global banking panic.	515
Elon Musk	There's a silly notion that failure's not an option at NASA. Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.	517
Martha Beck	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.	517
Steven Spielberg	Whether in success or in failure, I'm proud of every single movie I've ever directed.	518
Ambrose Bierce	Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.	519
Zig Ziglar	Remember that failure is an event, not a person.	520
Steven Spielberg	I even get inspired by movies that aren't very good, because there's always something good in movies that are collectively thought of as a failure. There's good in everything, I find.	524
Rush Limbaugh	It's impossible for a Democrat to be a failure. It's impossible for a Democrat to be a reprobate. It's impossible for a Democrat to be a mess. It just isn't possible, as far as the mind-set of the media is concerned.	525
Seth Shostak	Like prospecting in the 19th century, reconnaissance of the asteroids would of necessity take place in an arena where trouble is likely and help is distant. Heroic stories of individual triumph and failure, set on landscapes never seen by humankind, are in the cards.	608
Steven Pinker	I think that a failure of statistical thinking is the major intellectual shortcoming of our universities, journalism and intellectual culture.	610
Barack Obama	So while I will never minimize the costs involved in military action, I am convinced that a failure to act in Libya would have carried a far greater price for America.	706
George Bernard Shaw	Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.	712
Elliott Abrams	The failure to set standards for Palestinian conduct hurts the cause of peace.	713
Mason Cooley	I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.	713
John Updike	The study of literature threatens to become a kind of paleontology of failure, and criticism a supercilious psychoanalysis of authors.	802
George Bernard Shaw	My reputation grows with every failure.	803
P. J. O'Rourke	Adam Smith's huge failure was the fact that he did not foresee the industrial revolution.	807
Ezra Taft Benson	Pride is ugly. It says, 'If you succeed, I am a failure.'	810
P. J. O'Rourke	The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen.	901
Douglas Coupland	Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being.	912
P. J. O'Rourke	Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.	1214
P. J. O'Rourke	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.	1420

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