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- The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures.
- Humphry Davy on Failure
- The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.
- Earl Warren on Failure
- The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan.
- Alan Price on Failure
- The only failure is not to try.
- George Clooney on Failure
- The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.
- George Eliot on Failure
- The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
- The only real failure in life is one not learned from.
- Anthony J. D'Angelo on Failure
- The only reason my work seems to be eclectic up to a certain period is because I was a failure as an actor.
- Hugh Grant on Failure
- The only risk of failure is promotion.
- Scott Adams on Failure
- 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.
- Elias Canetti on Failure
- The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.
- Joyce Brothers on Failure
- 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.
- Gustav Mahler on Failure
- The pressures are intense, because the rewards for success and the penalty for failure are more and more.
- Alan Hansen on Failure
- 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.
- Hideki Tojo on Failure
- 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.
- Steve Forbes on Failure
- The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.
- Colin R. Davis on Failure
- The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
- Paramahansa Yogananda on Failure
- The sentiments in Hawaii about Washington's failure of leadership are no different than the rest of the country.
- The Soviet Union did not achieve victory over the West, so was my information inadequate to help them to victory, or did it play no particular role in their failure to achieve victory?
- Aldrich Ames on Failure
- The success and the failure are not my concern, but His.
- Joseph Barber Lightfoot on Failure
- 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.
- Alice James on Failure
- 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.
- H. L. Mencken on Failure
- The time I had waited probably made the difference between success and failure.
- Anna Neagle on Failure
- 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.
- Jon Meacham on Failure
- 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.
- John P. Kotter on Failure
- The very reasons sometimes that you make a film are the reasons for its failure.
- Sydney Pollack on Failure
- The will to persevere is often the difference between failure and success.
- David Sarnoff on Failure
- The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.
- Francis Picabia on Failure
- 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.
- James A. Baldwin on Failure
- 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.
- Thomas Haden Church on Failure
- There are no mistakes, save one: the failure to learn from a mistake.
- Robert Fripp on Failure
- There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
- Colin Powell on Failure
- 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.
- Sean Lennon on Failure
- There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
- Michel De Montaigne on Failure
- 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.
- Orison Swett Marden on Failure
- 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.
- Wesley Morris on Failure
- There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.
- Ann Landers on Failure
- There is always time for failure.
- John Mortimer on Failure
- 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.
- Elliot Richardson on Failure
- There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.
- William James on Failure
- There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success.
- Max Beerbohm on Failure
- There is no failure except in no longer trying.
- Elbert Hubbard on Failure
- 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.
- Kin Hubbard on Failure
- There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.
- Eric Hoffer on Failure
- There is no middle ground in Hollywood you're a failure or you're a success. That mentality is wild.
- Javier Bardem on Failure
- There is no such thing as darkness only a failure to see.
- Malcolm Muggeridge on Failure
- There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.
- Tony Robbins on Failure
- There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.
- John Keats on Failure
- There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
- George Eliot on Failure
- There is only one real failure in life that is possible, and that is, not to be true to the best one knows.
- Frederic William Farrar on Failure
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