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- 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.
- Emma Watson on Failure
- 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.
- Mike Krzyzewski on Failure
- Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.
- P. J. O'Rourke on Failure
- If 50 percent of your career is not filled with failure, you're not really successful.
- John Larroquette on Failure
- If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure.
- Doug Coupland on Failure
- If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
- Quentin Crisp on Failure
- If I didn't have children, I think my life would be a failure.
- Yann Martel on Failure
- 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.
- Carter G. Woodson on Failure
- If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.
- Robert H. Schuller on Failure
- 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.
- E. O. Wilson on Failure
- 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.
- Ruben Hinojosa on Failure
- If we don't succeed we run the risk of failure.
- Dan Quayle on Failure
- If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.
- 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.
- Rosalynn Carter on Failure
- 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!
- Betty White on Failure
- 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.
- Bryan Cranston on Failure
- If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.
- Zig Ziglar on Failure
- If you try to do your best there is no failure.
- Mike Farrell on Failure
- If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.
- Thomas John Watson, Sr. on Failure
- If you're 40 years old and you've never had a failure, you've been deprived.
- Gloria Swanson on Failure
- 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.
- Jamie Moyer on Failure
- If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr. on Failure
- If you're not a born-again Christian, you're a failure as a human being.
- Jerry Falwell on Failure
- If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.
- Woody Allen on Failure
- 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.
- Vin Diesel on Failure
- 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.
- Phil McGraw on Failure
- In a crowded marketplace, fitting in is a failure. In a busy marketplace, not standing out is the same as being invisible.
- Seth Godin on Failure
- 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.
- Walter Pater on Failure
- In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.
- In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.
- Barack Obama on Failure
- In Britain, by contrast, we still think that class plays a part in determining a person's life chances, so we're less inclined to celebrate success and less inclined to condemn failure. The upshot is that it's much easier to be a failure in Britain than it is in America.
- Toby Young on Failure
- In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.
- Frederick William Robertson on Failure
- 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.
- Mike Krzyzewski on Failure
- In Iraq we must succeed. Failure is not an option.
- Zbigniew Brzezinski on Failure
- In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
- Bill Cosby on Failure
- 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.
- Hans Eysenck on Failure
- In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge on Failure
- In tennis, it is not the opponent you fear, it is the failure itself, knowing how near you were but just out of reach.
- Andy Murray on Failure
- 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.
- Naveen Jain on Failure
- 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.
- Carol Gilligan on Failure
- 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.
- Harvey Fierstein on Failure
- In Washington, success is just a training course for failure.
- Simon Hoggart on Failure
- Indecision and delays are the parents of failure.
- George Canning on Failure
- Is anarchism possible? The failure of attempts to attain freedom does not mean the cause is lost.
- Johann Most on Failure
- 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?
- Chester W. Nimitz on Failure
- It breaks my heart to see these young, really talented bands getting chewed up into the system. I remember a time if you'd signed to a major label it was such a sell out! But now... unless you've signed to a big label, you're a failure now.
- Mike Peters on Failure
- 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!
- Agnetha Faltskog on Failure
- It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.
- John Steinbeck on Failure
- 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.
- Jon Corzine on Failure
- 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.
- Samuel Smiles on Failure
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