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- A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
- Christian Nestell Bovee on Failure
- A Failure in this Duty did once involve our Nation in all the Horrors of Rebellion and Civil War.
- Charles Inglis on Failure
- A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.
- Elbert Hubbard on Failure
- 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.
- B. F. Skinner on Failure
- A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.
- Arthur Bloch on Failure
- A film's success or failure is strictly on the director's shoulders.
- Robin Tunney on Failure
- A hatred of failure has always been part of my nature.
- Paul Getty on Failure
- A life which does not go into action is a failure.
- Arnold J. Toynbee on Failure
- A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.
- Elbert Hubbard on Failure
- A love of nature is a consolation against failure.
- Berthe Morisot on Failure
- A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
- John Burroughs on Failure
- A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.
- John Burroughs on Failure
- A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
- Christopher Morley on Failure
- A minute's success pays the failure of years.
- Robert Browning on Failure
- 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.
- Ambrose Bierce on Failure
- 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.
- Alexandre Dumas on Failure
- A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.
- Gertrude Stein on Failure
- About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure.
- Tommy Lasorda on Failure
- 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.
- Orison Swett Marden on Failure
- 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.
- Cathy Rigby on Failure
- Admitting failure is quite cleansing, but never - pleasurable.
- Michael Morpurgo on Failure
- 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.
- Xavier Becerra on Failure
- 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.
- Kurt Student on Failure
- All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.
- Jean-Paul Sartre on Failure
- All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.
- Carl Sandburg on Failure
- 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.
- Alberto Giacometti on Failure
- 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.
- Dorthea Brande on Failure
- All war represents a failure of diplomacy.
- Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
- Oscar Wilde on Failure
- Ambitious failure, magnificent failure, is a very good thing.
- Guy Kawasaki on Failure
- America thinks of itself as a meritocracy, so people have more respect for success and more contempt for failure.
- Toby Young on Failure
- 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.
- Larry Elder on Failure
- 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.
- Cal Thomas on Failure
- 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.
- Thomas Babington Macaulay on Failure
- 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.
- Morton Hunt on Failure
- Among all the tests President Obama faced in his first term, his biggest failure was climate change.
- Jeff Goodell on Failure
- 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.
- Harvey Korman on Failure
- And in reality, I don't think it's a real documentary. It's more a story of her life. It's a story of survival. It's a story of the time in which she lived. The story of success and failure.
- Maximilian Schell on Failure
- And obviously, with hindsight now, now knowing what went on in the company, it would have been absolutely appropriate back then for us to have the chief executive of the company, most senior person in the United Kingdom, come and answer for the policy they were pursuing. And we ducked that, and frankly that's a failure of Parliament.
- Tom A. Watson on Failure
- Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.
- Susan Sontag on Failure
- 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.
- Norman Vincent Peale on Failure
- Any man who has $10,000 left when he dies is a failure.
- Errol Flynn on Failure
- Art school had taught me it was far better to be a flamboyant failure than any kind of benign success.
- Malcolm Mclaren on Failure
- As a younger player, you always kind of play with that fear of failure.
- Jason Giambi on Failure
- 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.
- Doc Hastings on Failure
- 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.
- Henry Kravis on Failure
- 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?
- Charlie Sheen on Failure
- As long as the G.O.P., led by its increasingly visible women, continues to insist that the problem is not their policies but women's failure to understand their own lives and interests, the gender gap won't go away.
- Dee Dee Myers on Failure
- 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.
- Albert J. Nock on Failure
- 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.
- Jimmy Carr on Failure
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