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- 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.
- Mike Mills on Failure
- Schools don't really allow failure and yet it's a valid part of any endeavour, not just writing.
- Roddy Doyle on Failure
- Show me a good and gracious loser and I'll show you a failure.
- Knute Rockne on Failure
- Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
- Thomas A. Edison on Failure
- 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.
- William Empson on Failure
- So I try not to have any actual expectations for myself for any level of success or failure.
- Gavin DeGraw on Failure
- So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind that exhausts the imaginative capacity if it fails to do this the failure will announce itself either in prose or in insignificant verse.
- John Drinkwater on Failure
- So many financial dreams are thwarted by the failure to act upon good intentions.
- Suze Orman on Failure
- 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.
- Jeremy Irons on Failure
- 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.
- Allen Tate on Failure
- 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.
- Barack Obama on Failure
- Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
- Thomas Sowell on Failure
- Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
- Winston Churchill on Failure
- 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.
- David Limbaugh on Failure
- 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.
- Jensen Ackles on Failure
- 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.
- Henry Knox on Failure
- Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.
- Edward Dowden on Failure
- Sometimes failure isn't an opportunity in disguise, it's just you.
- Doug Coupland on Failure
- Sometimes people call me a success for all the reasons that make me think I'm a failure.
- William Hurt on Failure
- Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure.
- Doug Coupland on Failure
- 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.
- Michael Crawford on Failure
- 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.
- Og Mandino on Failure
- Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.
- Dale Dauten on Failure
- Start-ups make so many mistakes that the challenge to identify the root cause of a failure is tough. But believing in your own plan is probably the worst.
- Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure.
- Sidney Hook on Failure
- Success and failure are both part of life. Both are not permanent.
- Shahrukh Khan on Failure
- Success and failure are equally disastrous.
- Tennessee Williams on Failure
- Success and failure are greatly overrated. But failure gives you a whole lot more to talk about.
- Hildegard Knef on Failure
- Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.
- Andy Grove on Failure
- Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period.
- Felicity Kendal on Failure
- Success comes when people act together failure tends to happen alone.
- Deepak Chopra on Failure
- Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
- Winston Churchill on Failure
- Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.
- Success is 99 percent failure.
- Soichiro Honda on Failure
- Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.
- Rosalind Russell on Failure
- Success is always less funny than failure.
- Jon Ronson on Failure
- Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.
- Graham Greene on Failure
- Success is never final, but failure can be.
- Bill Parcells on Failure
- Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.
- John Wooden on Failure
- Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble.
- Shahrukh Khan on Failure
- Success is not built on success. It's built on failure. It's built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe.
- Sumner Redstone on Failure
- Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
- Winston Churchill on Failure
- Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.
- Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.
- Coco Chanel on Failure
- Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.
- Earl Wilson on Failure
- Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
- Colin Powell on Failure
- Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure.
- Sylvester Stallone on Failure
- Success isn't permanent and failure isn't fatal.
- Mike Ditka on Failure
- Success needs no explanation. Failure does not have one that matters.
- Jesse Jackson on Failure
- 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.
- William James on Failure
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