Failure Quotes

 

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.|Ernest Hemingway

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.|Theodore Roosevelt

Every adversity        every failure every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.|Napoleon Hill

I can accept failure   everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.|Michael Jordan

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.|Oscar Wilde

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.|James Joyce

There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.|Tony Robbins

Remember that failure is an event not a person.|Zig Ziglar

A man can fail many times but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.|John Burroughs

Do not be embarrassed by your failures   learn from them and start again.|Richard Branson

If you’re not failing every now and again it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative.|Woody Allen

An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.|Edwin Land

Failure is not a single           cataclysmic event. You don’t fail overnight. Instead      failure is a few errors in judgement  repeated every day.|Jim Rohn

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.|J. K. Rowling

Failure is a word unknown to me.|Muhammad Ali Jinnah

If at first you don’t succeed failure may be your style.|Quentin Crisp

Failure is impossible.|Susan B. Anthony

We have forty million reasons for failure but not a single excuse.|Rudyard Kipling

Losing is no disgrace if you’ve given your best.|Jim Palmer

My life has been nothing but a failure.|Claude Monet

To err is human        but it feels divine.|Mae West

Failure is always an option.|Adam Savage

My fault         my failure     is not in the passions I have           but in my lack of control of them.|Jack Kerouac

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.|Abraham Maslow

I never see failure as failure           but only as the game I must play and win.|Tom Hopkins

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

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.|Mary Kay Ash

Don’t be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.|Lily Tomlin

Indecision and delays are the parents of failure.|George Canning

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.|Nikki Giovanni

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.|George Eliot

The guns and the bombs      the rockets and the warships          are all symbols of human failure.|Lyndon B. Johnson

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 Baldwin

It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.|Roger Babson

They who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure.|James Allen

Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures.|Bernard Baruch

The great question is not whether you have failed          but whether you are content with failure.|Laurence J. Peter

Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.|Mike Murdock

The only risk of failure is promotion.|Scott Adams

There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.|Michel de Montaigne

Never walk away from failure. On the contrary  study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.|Michael Korda

It’s best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.|Anne Baxter

Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.|Edwin Markham

At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings.|Hector Berlioz

I fell off my pink cloud with a thud.|Elizabeth Taylor

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.|Andre Malraux

Before you can win a game you have to not lose it.|Chuck Noll

The wisest of the wise may err.|Aeschylus

You gotta lose ’em some of the time. When you do        lose ’em right.|Casey Stengel

We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans    finding our failures were successes.|Amos Bronson Alcott

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.|Roger von Oech

It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.|Charles Kettering

All human actions are equivalent… and all are on principle doomed to failure.|Carl Sandburg

A life which does not go into action is a failure.|Arnold J. Toynbee

Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God.|Charles Horton Cooley

There is no failure except in no longer trying.|Elbert Hubbard

The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.|Richard Brinsley Sheridan

I don’t believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.|Oprah Winfrey

Failure is a detour    not a dead-end street.|Zig Ziglar

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.|S. I. Hayakawa

There are many victories worse than a defeat.|George Eliot

We failed       but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing.|Robert E. Lee

The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures.|Humphry Davy

Failure is not fatal    but failure to change might be.|John Wooden

To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.|Denis Waitley

Don’t be afraid of failure; be afraid of petty success.|Maude Adams

The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.|Francis Picabia

Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.|Luc de Clapiers

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

My reputation grows with every failure.|George Bernard Shaw

Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.|Thomas A. Edison

If you learn from defeat      you haven’t really lost.|Zig Ziglar

You make mistakes. Mistakes don’t make you.|Maxwell Maltz

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.|Tony Robbins

I wasn’t afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.|Anne Baxter

All the world loves a good loser.|Kin Hubbard

We may be personally defeated     but our principles never!|William Lloyd Garrison

Failure is a word that I simply don’t accept.|John H. Johnson

Man is not made for defeat.|Ernest Hemingway

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.|Charles Schwab

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.|Sylvester Stallone

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.|Thomas A. Edison

Do not let your ambitions become a sanctuary for your failures.|Bryant H. McGill

The only failure one should fear    is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.|George Eliot

The way most people fail is in not keeping up the heart.|Lady Gregory

Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.|Donald Trump

If something’s important enough    you should try. Even if – the probable outcome is failure.|Elon Musk

Honesty is the fastest way to prevent a mistake from turning into a failure.|James Altucher

There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.|Brene Brown

Not failure     but low aim  is crime.|James Russell Lowell

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.|A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.|Thomas Sowell

I believe in never giving up no matter what the odds. My mantra is    ‘Failure is temporary. Giving up is permanent.’|Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

Never be afraid to fail. Failure is only a stepping stone to improvement. Never be overconfident because that will block your improvement.|Tony Jaa

You have to be able to accept failure to get better.|LeBron James

Your ability to adapt to failure       and navigate your way out of it     absolutely 100 percent makes you who you are.|Viola Davis

Testing leads to failure        and failure leads to understanding.|Burt Rutan

Any man who has $10         000 left when he dies is a failure.|Errol Flynn

All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.|Jean-Paul Sartre

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.|Charlie Chaplin

Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.|Susan Sontag

Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.|Jawaharlal Nehru

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.|John Dewey

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.|Mark Ryan

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.|Lao Tzu

If we don’t succeed we run the risk of failure.|Dan Quayle

The only failure is not to try.|George Clooney

In a crowded marketplace   fitting in is a failure. In a busy marketplace        not standing out is the same as being invisible.|Seth Godin

Failure is not a crime. The crime is not trying.|Ron Dellums

Failure’s not a bad thing. It builds character. It makes you stronger.|Billy Dee Williams

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.|Kevin Bacon

He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.|Paul Tillich

Failure is essential. Trial and error is necessary.|David Bergen

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

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.|Joyce Meyer

My father was not a failure. After all        he was the father of a president of the United States.|Harry S Truman

There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.|John Keats

Destiny: A tyrant’s Ambrose Bierceity for crime and a fool’s excuse for failure.|Ambrose Bierce

All political careers end in failure but few did it so quickly as David Cameron’s. He came to power promising not to ‘bang on about Europe’ and ended up having the continent’s name chiselled into the lid of his political coffin.|David Hepworth

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.|Henry Petroski

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.|Mark Skousen

The failure to invest in youth reflects a lack of compassion and a colossal failure of common sense.|Coretta Scott King

The only real failure in life is one not learned from.|Anthony J. D’Angelo

I was a diabetic for 16 years           since I was 14. Being that I lost weight    no more diabetes. You don’t have to lose your eyesight     cut off your toes      have a stroke get kidney failure. You just have to lose weight – you know – for most of the diabetes.|Fat Joe

Who I am as a guitarist is defined by my failure to become Jimi Hendrix.|John Mayer

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

One should accept failure   and be willing to learn        unlearn and relearn again.|Ritesh Agarwal

Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.|Suzy Kassem

Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man.|William Howard Taft

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

If you fall during your life  it doesn’t matter. You’re never a failure as long as you try to get up.|Evel Knievel

Our failure to properly deal with Germany and Japan early cost the world dearly later on. We dare not make the same mistake with China.|Steve Forbes

Progress requires setbacks; the only sure way to avoid failure is not to try.|Henry Spencer

People who try to tackle failure attract failure. The more you indulge in analysis     it gets tougher. So just keep making mistakes and learn.|Sushmita Sen

If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished         then it’s a failure.|Douglas Coupland

There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.|Malcolm Muggeridge

Never tell anyone outside my staff that the Submarine Force and the First Air Fleet were responsible for the failure at Midway. The failure at Midway was mine.|Isoroku Yamamoto

Tenacity is not about avoiding being overwhelmed but being indomitable in the face of the overwhelming odds of your venture’s failure.|Andy Dunn

The only real failure is giving up.|Scooter Braun

I’m living life as best I can – but I’m not exempt from failure and making bad choices.|LeAnn Rimes

Ultimately there is no such thing as failure. There are lessons learned in different ways.|Twyla Tharp

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.|Lupita Nyong’o

Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it’s only kept a secret from the person who fails.|Robert Half

When you accept that failure is a good thing       it can actually be a huge propeller toward success.|Whitney Wolfe Herd

Failure is good. It’s fertilizer. Everything I’ve learned about coaching I’ve learned from making mistakes.|Rick Pitino

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.|Kareena Kapoor Khan

A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.|Arthur Bloch

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

Run toward the hardest problems. This approach has helped me to learn a tremendous amount from both success and failure.|Lisa Su

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

Failure doesn’t kill you… it increases your desire to make something happen.|Kevin Costner

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.|Allan Bloom

You can try to make the right decision all the time         but it’s better to just make a decision. I have done wrong so many times but nine times out of 10      I have learned from my failure. Don’t wait for something; just go for it.|Bobby Bones

To a certain extent   I enjoy failure. It’s part of the game. There’s always room to grow; there’s room to improve.|Aaron Judge

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.|Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Aging is mostly the failure to repair.|Gregory Benford

Failure teaches you a lot more than success.|Smriti Mandhana

People who have a sense of self-efficacy bounce back from failure; they approach things in terms of how to handle them rather than worrying about what can go wrong.|Albert Bandura

Spend enough time around success and failure   and you learn a reverence for possibility.|Dale Dauten

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.|Erik Erikson

I want to speak seventeen languages. When you think like that            you’ll be consumed by failure. I’m haunted daily by what I don’t know.|Kelsey Grammer

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.|Fred Allen

We are human beings          at the end of the day. Success and failure are a part and parcel of our life.|Hima Das

For as long as I can remember       I have wanted to be a godly person. Yet when I look at the yesterdays of my life           what I see     mostly           is a broken    irregular path littered with mistakes and failure. I have had temporary successes and isolated moments of closeness to God  but I long for the continuing presence of Jesus.|Mike Yaconelli

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

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

If one’s man’s trash is another man’s treasure       then one industry’s potential failure is another’s opportunity.|Adam Lashinsky

The dream is real      my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality.|Toni Cade Bambara

Ambitious failure     magnificent failure  is a very good thing.|Guy Kawasaki

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.|Gordon Parks

Failure worries me; nobody wants to fail. There is a fear that one day films will not come my way            or if someone doesn’t watch your film     that is a worrying point. It is unpredictable in the industry.|Alia Bhatt

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.|Slavoj Zizek

It is in our genes that we think of breaking up when we love and of failure and fall when we succeed.|RM

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!|Don Johnson

You can’t have any successes unless you can accept failure.|George Cukor

Those who refuse to liberalise and globalise are doomed to failure.|Yuval Noah Harari

I don’t lose any sleep at night over the potential for failure. I cannot even spell the word.|Jim Mattis

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

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.|Sonia Sotomayor

Failure is inevitable; it happens all the time in a complex economy.|Tim Harford

There are no mistakes          save one: the failure to learn from a mistake.|Robert Fripp

Golf is a game of endless failure and frustration.|Mike Greenberg

What we perceive as a failure may simply be our inner being’s way of telling us that we are ready to move to a new level of growth.|Anne Wilson Schaef

Failure doesn’t exist. It’s only a change of direction.|Alejandro Jodorowsky

I believe you must find the things in life that you love   and don’t let anybody or anything stop you. There may be lesser successes       but you’re never a failure unless you choose not to do something. I don’t fail unless I quit. You must believe to receive.|Bret Michaels

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.|Cory Booker

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

Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State’s failure all crime in the end is the crime of the community.|H. G. Wells

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

Even as far back as when I started acting at 14    I know I’ve never considered failure.|Jennifer Lawrence

Failure has always made me a very strong person.|Sudha Chandran

The more important argument against grade curves is that they create an atmosphere that’s toxic by pitting students against one another. At best        it creates a hypercompetitive culture       and at worst  it sends students the message that the world is a zero-sum game: Your success means my failure.|Adam Grant

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.|Ben Bernanke

A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.|Gertrude Stein

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.|Alana Stewart

Just because you’re struggling with self-discipline doesn’t mean you have to raise the white flag and declare your self-improvement efforts a complete failure. Instead       work to increase the chances that you’ll stick to your healthier habits – even when you don’t feel like it.|Amy Morin

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.’|Alan King

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.|George W. Bush

Love is such a powerful subject matter because it comes in so many different shapes and sizes. It’s about timing  fate    failure           redemption.|Jim Sturgess

Without failure there is no sweetness in success. There’s no understanding of it.|Glenn Beck

If we don’t succeed  we run the risk of failure.|Al Gore

The more control you have over your life the more responsible you feel for your own success – or failure.|Arthur C. Brooks

The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.|Norman Cousins

Three months at Oxford persuaded me that it was not my home. I’m not English and I never will be. The life I have lived is one of partial displacement. I came to England as a means of escape          and it was a failure.|Stuart Hall

So many financial dreams are thwarted by the failure to act upon good intentions.|Suze Orman

Perfectionist is sometimes the wrong word… It means like you’re never satisfied     or you’re upset by every single failure – any type of failure. And so for me I don’t look at failure as necessarily a bad thing as long as I’m able to learn from it and take something from it so that next time I’m in that situation I know how to succeed.|Max Scherzer

This game is obviously about failure. You’re going to fail most of the time. It’s how you handle it.|Mookie Betts

I’ve loved every minute I’ve spent in television. And I’ve had much more failure     as traditionally measured       than success in television. I’ve done four shows and only one of them was the ‘West Wing.’|Aaron Sorkin

‘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.|Tommy Lasorda

It isn’t easy to suffer failure go through all the pain and the hardship.|Abhinav Bindra

Like all alchemists   Trump seeks to convert dross into gold   to toss a broth of his incompetence            denial delay deception      and failure into some supernatural alembic and extract political advantage.|Rick Wilson

Failure usually works for me in the end.|David Hasselhoff

I am constantly hungry for growth and that’s what drives me. Success or failure of a project doesn’t drive me.|Angad Bedi

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.|Elon Musk

I don’t fear pain or failure anymore because I’m too grateful for the pains and failures of my past – they have made me who I am      and most of the good things in my life are a direct result of them in some way.|Scott Derrickson

At some point           most of us reach a place where we’re afraid to fail         where we instinctively avoid failure and stick only to what is placed in front of us or only what we’re already good at. This confines us and stifles us.|Mark Manson

Failure will happen. It’s a normal part of the startup process.|Steve Blank

Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?|Ernest Hemingway

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.|Gifford Pinchot

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.|Mitch Daniels

I didn’t fear failure. I expected failure.|Amy Tan

You’ll never convince me there is a hopeless situation or there is any finality in any success or any failure.|Carlos Ghosn

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.|Alexander Haig

Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.|J. K. Rowling

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.|Tina Fey

For some time           I thought Apollo 13 was a failure. I was disappointed I didn’t get to land on the moon. But actually   it turned out to be the best thing that could have happened.|Jim Lovell

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.|Camille Paglia

Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.|Orlando Bloom

Failure has been my best friend as a writer. It tests you to see if you have what it takes to see it through.|Markus Zusak

The moral turpitude of the boys of today appears to center in their failure to concentrate on any particular objective long enough to obtain their maximum results.|Major Taylor

Without failure there is no achievement.|John C. Maxwell

I think you have to try and fail       because failure gets you closer to what you’re good at.|Louis C. K.

We keep score in life because it matters. It counts. It matters. Too many people opt out and never discover their own abilities because they fear failure. They don’t understand commitment.|Pat Summitt

Nine out of ten people who are failing blame their failure on somebody else. And that is the common denominator of failure.|Jon Taffer

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.|Sting

The success   or failure       of a CEO to implement AI throughout the organization will depend on them hiring a leader to build an organization to do this. In some companies  CIOs or chief data officers are playing this role.|Andrew Ng

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.|Malcolm Mclaren

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.|Chen Shui-bian

Historically   defense spending cuts have preceded increased international turmoil as America’s global enemies sense a failure of will.|Ben Shapiro

Once you can accept failure           you can have fun and success.|Rickey Henderson

A love of nature is a consolation against failure.|Berthe Morisot

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.|Victor Kiam

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.|Lucille Ball

We do not realise that we are children of eternity. If we did     then success would be no success and failure would be no failure to us.|Joseph Barber Lightfoot

I buy a lot of cookbooks. Some of them you just kind of read  and you try one recipe        and it doesn’t really work. So then you don’t go back to it. The new Ina Garten cookbook which is called ‘Back to Basics         ‘ I have not had a failure with. It is the most fantastic cookbook. I think I bought 20 copies of it for friends.|Nora Ephron

We go there with confidence         but we know there is a very fine line between success and failure in this game.|Alan Shearer

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.|Gordon Moore

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

Philanthropic colonization is a failure. National colonization will succeed.|Theodor Herzl

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.|Mandy Moore

Pride is ugly. It says ‘If you succeed        I am a failure.’|Ezra Taft Benson

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.|Scott Stossel

We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts.|Gary Player

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.|Anna Quindlen

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.|Myles Munroe

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.|Ali Larter

Failure is simply a few errors in judgment           repeated every day.|Jim Rohn

Bare hands grip success better than kid gloves. Be thorough in all things       no matter how small or distasteful! The man who counts his hours and kicks about his salary is a self-elected failure.|Charles M. Schwab

The failure to dissect the cause of war leaves us open for the next installment.|Chris Hedges

We’re born with success. It is only others who point out our failures  and what they attribute to us as failure.|Whoopi Goldberg

Not failure     but low aim is sin.|Benjamin E. Mays

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.|James Howard Kunstler

A film’s success or failure is strictly on the director’s shoulders.|Robin Tunney

My thing with failure           just forget about it and get up and do it again.|JoJo Siwa

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.|Carroll Quigley

But while success and failure depend on conditions       the mind neither waxes nor wanes.|Bodhidharma

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.|Neal Boortz

If there exists no possibility of failure      then victory is meaningless.|Robert H. Schuller

The failure of the system to deal quickly was attributable to Nixon’s lying    stonewalling and refusal to come clean. So it took 26 months for the final truth to be known.|Bob Woodward

There’s a lot of freedom in failure and I can see that now.|Min Jin Lee

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

Adam Smith’s huge failure was the fact that he did not foresee the industrial revolution.|P. J. O’Rourke

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.|William Kingdon Clifford

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.|James Allen

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.|Brian Ferneyhough

I love to experiment I don’t have a fear of failure.|Mahesh Manjrekar

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

Without exposure to potential failure       there is no risk.|Brennan Manning

What’s most disappointing about May’s failure on climate change is that Britain played such a pivotal role in securing international agreement on it in the first place.|Ed Davey

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.|Martha Beck

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.’|Elizabeth Pena

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

It really is impossible not to like him. His success was his failure.|Arthur C. Danto

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

To not follow your passion in life is a recipe for failure and unhappiness.|Robert Greene

With improvisation  I just do it. It might be a total failure but then you just throw the dice again.|Christian Marclay

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

The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure.|John C. Maxwell

The root causes of the gang culture lie right across the policy spectrum – but they can all be found in the same areas geographically: worklessness; family breakdown; educational failure and addiction.|Chris Grayling

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.|Albert Claude

In America    there’s a failure to appreciate Europe’s leading role in the world.|Barack Obama

The federal government has been a proven failure in picking winners and losers in the energy sector.|Mike Pompeo

One of the things I definitely think of as a driver of me is fear. And it’s fear of failure        fear of being overtaken.|Jocko Willink

Every stumble is not a fall  and every fall does not mean failure.|Oprah Winfrey

A Failure in this Duty did once involve our Nation in all the Horrors of Rebellion and Civil War.|Charles Inglis

I’ve never been a jealous person    and I’ve never felt built up by someone else’s failure – that’s a cheap thrill.|Matthew McConaughey

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.|Elon Musk

Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.|Edward Dowden

About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure.|Tommy Lasorda

YouTube began as a failed video-dating site. Twitter was a failed music service. In each case       the founders continued to try new concepts when their big ideas failed. They often worked around the clock to try to overcome their failure before all their capital was spent. Speed to fail gives a startup more runway to pivot and ultimately succeed.|Jay Samit

I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success         court failure.|Alan Rickman

Poverty is about people lacking the tools they need to get on in life. And solving it is about tackling educational failure   antisocial behaviour           debt problems and addiction         and of course it’s about work.|Theresa May

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.|Tennessee Williams

One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.|John W. Gardner

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.|Charles Kettering

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.|Tim Wise

Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant – the digitalis of failure.|Elbert Hubbard

Engineering is achieving function while avoiding failure.|Henry Petroski

If you can’t admit a failure  you’re not an entrepreneur. You are not a good business person. There’s nothing brilliant about what you are doing.|Mark Cuban

Don’t come home a failure.|Ty Cobb

What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure.|Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Don’t be frightened of failure. It makes you stronger if you learn from your mistakes.|Mark Lawrenson

If you were to plot my success or failure  it goes            it very seldom stays on a high plateau.|Jeff Beck

The fear of failure never goes away. In many ways        you could argue that success multiplies the opportunities for failure. It’s just more of an argument for becoming more comfortable with it.|Mark Manson

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.|Shannen Doherty

It’s a European Union of economic failure           of mass unemployment and of low growth.|Nigel Farage

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.|J. K. Rowling

There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.|Eric Hoffer

The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.|B. C. Forbes

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.|Ben Shapiro

No man can be a failure if he thinks he’s a success; If he thinks he is a winner          then he is.|Robert W. Service

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.|John McCarthy

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.|Oriana Fallaci

In policy arena after policy arena  Democrats respond to every failure of clunky government by proposing the addition of still more layers to 1960s-era bureaucracies as they break down.|Ben Sasse

Boston has carried the practice of hypocrisy to the n-th degree of refinement           grace  and failure.|Lincoln Steffens

I have always believed that it’s important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.|T. Boone Pickens

All work is a process of failure. Every single thing I write        I look at it and go    ‘Do better. That’s not good enough. Do better.’ And so         that keeps me up at night.|Abi Morgan

You have to risk failure to succeed. The important thing is not to make one single mistake that will jeopardize the future.|An Wang

You have to learn how not to be defined by failure.|Kurt Warner

Science is so incremental and so full of setbacks and small steps forward. In order to really thrive in this business  you have to be able to glean as much joy from the failure days and from the small increments as you do from the breakthroughs.|Hope Jahren

Daring is doing. Daring is asking something outrageous despite your chances of failure and rejection. Daring is going out on a limb by believing in something that no one else understands        and if all fails    daring is trying again.|Bibi Bourelly

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.|Roger Daltrey

The failure of The Cable Guy impacted my career. I had to start writing and acting again.|Ben Stiller

Success needs no explanation. Failure does not have one that matters.|Jesse Jackson

Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.|Montgomery Clift

Failure holds the seeds for greatness – so long as you water those seeds with introspection they can be the root of your success.|Daniel Lubetzky

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.|Amy Tan

Failure too is a form of death.|Graham Greene

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

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

I constantly experience failure in that my work is never as good as I want it to be. So I live with failure.|Jeremy Irons

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.|Carol Moseley Braun

Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.|Denis Waitley

We ceased to be a band the moment we made it. It left us with nothing. We felt like a failure although we had commercial success.|Morten Harket

Never fret for an only son   the idea of failure will never occur to him.|George Bernard Shaw

There’s always a possibility that you can have a catastrophic failure   of course. This could happen on any flight.|Gus Grissom

Failure is never fatal. But failure to change can and might be.|John Wooden

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

We decided to try in vitro   because both Peter and I felt we couldn’t handle another failure. When I miscarried after that we had to come to terms with the possibility that this wasn’t meant to be.|Christie Brinkley

We know there is no such thing as freedom without the risk of failure.|Rick Perry

Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease      where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function    the end result of which is kidney failure.|Xavier Becerra

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.|Oprah Winfrey

A no deal Brexit would be a complete failure by the government to negotiate for Britain.|Keir Starmer

My worst fashion failure was when I wore tight PVC pants     and I had a show in Eugene           Oregon… my pants split down the center.|Davey Havok

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.|Kevin Smith

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.|P. J. O’Rourke

My biggest failure is ‘Metal Gear.’ It’s my biggest failure and my biggest success.|Hideo Kojima

A failure is a man who has blundered       but is not able to cash in the experience.|Elbert Hubbard

I was convicted of three misdemeanors of willful failure to file a form.|Wesley Snipes

I’m a polarizing person        so people get caught up in hoping I fail. And just like success failure is a perspective.|CM Punk

Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.|Daniel Webster

I want you to know that focusing on someone else’s failure or success is the wrong way to live.|Scott Cawthon

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.|Ambrose Bierce

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.|Abraham Joshua Heschel

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

There’s a difference between a failure and a fiasco… a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.|Orlando Bloom

Thoughtless risks are destructive   of course       but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.|Gary Ryan Blair

The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions         we have not created a civil society.|Paddy Ashdown

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.|Naveen Jain

I wanted to take away the fear of failure from the youngsters because when I came into the Indian team I faced that pressure.|Sourav Ganguly

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.|Solomon Asch

Failure is an enigma. You worry about it and it teaches you something.|James Dyson

If you accept failure then you can improve on it. It’s funny though     because         on the flip side of the coin          I’d say that if you don’t accept failure      there is no failure.|Subhash Chandra

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.|Brian Harris

Sometimes people call me a success for all the reasons that make me think I’m a failure.|William Hurt

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

Most people are afraid of failure. I love failure because it tells me where to go next.|Bryson DeChambeau

Ideology         politics and journalism       which luxuriate in failure   are impotent in the face of hope and joy.|P. J. O’Rourke

It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands    new undertakings    and new forms of expression.|Eric Hoffer

The pressures are intense    because the rewards for success and the penalty for failure are more and more.|Alan Hansen

I don’t understand a way to work other than bold-facedly running towards failure.|Cate Blanchett

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.|Boutros Boutros-Ghali

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.|Chuck Barris

I’ve always believed that it’s important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.|T. Boone Pickens

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.|Morris West

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

Failure has gone to his head.|Wilson Mizner

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

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.|Bob Woodward

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

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.|Michael Savage

A failure establishes only this        that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.|Christian Nestell Bovee

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.|Adam Schiff

Without intellectual honesty          you can’t have a culture that’s willing to tolerate failure because people cling too much to an idea that likely will be bad or isn’t working and they feel like their reputation is tied up in it. They can’t admit failure.|Jensen Huang

Failure? Scared to death of it.|Ryan Seacrest

I fear that our true motivation is about oil and our own flailing economy; about the failure to destroy Al Qaeda and about revenge.|Dave Matthews

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.|Saint Basil

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.|Jerry Rice

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.|Dave Van Ronk

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.|Tullian Tchividjian

Greatly begin. Though thou have time      but for a line be that sublime. Not failure           but low aim is crime.|James Russell Lowell

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.|Lee H. Hamilton

You learn a lot of about people in failure.|B. J. Armstrong

You don’t go into anything contemplating failure           because if you did   you wouldn’t make it.|Simon Cowell

I wanted to do a lot of things in wine        but I didn’t know how to do it. So before I invested in anything         before I really put my dollars into it         I put my whole heart           soul    mind into it so that I really understand the severity of each outcome the severity of success and the severity of failure.|C. J. McCollum

I have learnt the hard way that neither success nor failure last forever.|Abhimanyu Singh

There is no middle ground in Hollywood; you’re a failure or you’re a success. That mentality is wild.|Javier Bardem

To me all war is failure for humanity       though it often is a bounty for commerce.|Mark Edwards

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.|Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

Is anarchism possible? The failure of attempts to attain freedom does not mean the cause is lost.|Johann Most

If I’ve got a message to the younger generation   it’s this: don’t be scared of failure. Get out there try things and never be afraid to ask for help.|Ant Middleton

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

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

Neither a success nor by any means a failure       Roku will nevertheless ask public investors for money because they too     have a right to dream that magic will become reality one day.|Adam Lashinsky

It’s not a very high failure rate if you choose people that you really like the sound of.|Bryan Ferry

Not many people are really that meticulous with what they do I suppose      but I’m just a control freak and terribly afraid of failure or regret. I work very hard on these things.|George Michael

Whether you’re successful or not   you’ll never actually feel the joys of accomplishment unless you love yourself. Success can be very difficult to deal with. You have to stay in the center. If you let your success define you   then you’re really just setting yourself up for failure.|Goldie Hawn

Failure does not scare me.|Keith Thurman

‘Faucet Failure’ was my favorite because I just had fun with it and it was just 10 minutes  and I didn’t overthink anything   and I wanted to just have fun with the song.|Ski Mask the Slump God

That’s me: success and failure don’t affect me.|Nana Patekar

Subsidies should never be a permanent feature of any market. They should be introduced only to address market failure and they should be withdrawn gradually as those distortions in the market are addressed.|Barry Gardiner

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.|Tom Cochrane

You have to be able to bounce back and deal with disappointment     failure and weaknesses       and a lot of that happens behind the scenes for teams that are very successful.|Maya Moore

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.|Ayelet Waldman

Failure is easy to handle because once you fail   the options are very simple… like ‘Try something different         ‘ or       ‘Maybe if you do the same thing   do it in a different way.’|Prithviraj Sukumaran

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

Over the next four years      we will be bold. We will be willing to experiment. We will not fear failure.|Matt Blunt

You’re going to fail. It’s how you respond to that failure that kind of defines you as a person         as an athlete.|Vernon Wells

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

The French elites’ strategy of trying to defeat the Le Pens by aping their rhetoric     stealing their policies          and pandering to their voters has been a political and moral failure.|Mehdi Hasan

Fear comes in two packages fear of failure          and sometimes         fear of success.|Tom Kite

Donald Trump got impeached for his Ukraine Plan A and the economy went down the tubes        thanks to his failure to deal with the Coronavirus.|Sam Seder

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.|M. Stanton Evans

If you’re not a born-again Christian           you’re a failure as a human being.|Jerry Falwell

Social media can help or hurt you. People are more into other people’s lives than their own. Everyone sees everyone else’s success online           and we allow it to magnify our own failure.|Karen Civil

Never permit failure to become a habit.|William Frederick Book

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.|Scott Brown

I will not be discouraged by failure; I will not be elated by success.|Joseph Barber Lightfoot

In most parts of the world   starting a company that goes bust is dubbed a ‘failure.’ In Silicon Valley            we call this ‘gaining experience.’ We are willing to take the risks that are inherent for innovation.|Sebastian Thrun

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.|Davy Crockett

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.|Tom Baker

My biggest failure is I have too many to talk about.|Dean Kamen

Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much            you feel so guilty.|Lillian Hellman

But I look at failure as education. In that respect I am so well-educated.|Kathy Ireland

Failure is unfortunately as common as success.|Sanjay Kumar

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.|John Hersey

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

Be greedy for social change           and your life will be endlessly enriched. The only failure lies in not trying  or giving up.|Ann Cotton

Everyone understands the European Union is a failure. It has not kept any of its promises – in particular about prosperity       security – and           worst of all   has put us under a guardianship.|Marine Le Pen

I research best practices and recipes for success and failure to craft personalised policies for my city.|Aja Brown

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.|Robert Dallek

The biggest lesson I had in my life was failure.|Tim Rice

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.|J. Maarten Troost

The probability of failure doesn’t matter to me.|Vinod Khosla

I already had high blood pressure. I have hypertension. And I think the chemo was just too much for my kidneys. And they went into failure. And that was September 12th of 2008. And the doctor rushed me right to the hospital.|Natalie Cole

For Trump     success always has a single father – himself. Failure has a hundred – everyone and anyone else. The media. The Democrats. The ‘deep state.’ Disloyal staffers. Prosecutors. Judges. Anyone who doesn’t do his bidding or sufficiently sing his praises.|George T. Conway III

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.|Akshay Kumar

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

By virtually any measure    the record of the Republican Majority is an appalling failure.|Sheila Jackson Lee

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.|Aimee Bender

I believe failure sometimes teaches you more than success.|Akshaye Khanna

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

It’s true that if it’s always going to be that if you win the World Cup or European Championship  you’re a success        and if you don’t        you’re a failure         then you’re bedding yourself for a lack of success because there aren’t many coaches who have won those things      and there are thousands who haven’t.|Roy Hodgson

In theory        I absolutely love to work from home       in all its warmth and comfort        but have reluctantly been forced to confess that it’s a total failure.|Robert Rinder

It is not a happy time when a film doesn’t do well… Everything affects you  success affects you and failure also affects you.|Abhay Deol

Failure is a personal thing but it’s better to experience it in the beginning itself because you learn to handle it.|Kirron Kher

From my point of view        a lot of the things that we’ve done over our entire career have always been a big failure because it was never the way that I planned it. But then there’s always upsides with it that turn out to be better or greater than the original plan.|Tobias Forge

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.|George Clooney

Partly  identity politics is a result of economic failure.|Abhijit Banerjee

Revolutionaries were depressed and close to emotional breakdown; after the failure           they left successively.|Sun Yat-sen

I expect either total success or total failure. That’s my lot in life.|Varg Vikernes

We judged that a sudden     disorderly failure of Bear would have brought with it unpredictable but severe consequences for the functioning of the broader financial system and the broader economy            with lower equity prices     further downward pressure on home values        and less access to credit for companies and households.|Timothy Geithner

There is always time for failure.|John Mortimer

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.|Arlie Russell Hochschild

Nothing fails like failure.|Margaret Drabble

Being an actor           in my case    any failure or success is extremely visible to a whole nation of movie-watchers.|Akshaye Khanna

It’s ironic my biggest mental crisis in life came when I actually succeeded. A lot of people talked about dealing with failure  but for me     dealing with success was probably the hardest time in my life.|Abhinav Bindra

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.|Al Sharpton

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.|Natalie Goldberg

Fear of failure           what is that? It would never occur to me.|Laurie David

I realized that I was afraid to really           really try something 100%  because I had never reached true failure.|Trent Reznor

Katie Price is no exception. She     too     is – in a distinctive way – a philosopher. Partially          Katie Price’s philosophy is one of extraordinary confidence. She is remarkable not for her looks or antics but because of her tremendous self-assurance and her unwillingness to be intimidated by criticism or failure.|Alain de Botton

We can’t leave everything to the free market. In fact      climate change is     I would argue           the greatest single free-market failure. This is what happens when you don’t regulate corporations and you allow them to treat the atmosphere as an open sewer.|Naomi Klein

No commander-in-chief should leave Americans behind in the aftermath of a failure.|Marjorie Taylor Greene

My first film was a failure. I had many failures too. It’s not easy dealing with it.|Akshaye Khanna

I’m very comfortable with failure. I’m very comfortable being the guy who disappoints people.|Steven Soderbergh

If your current get-rich project fails          take what you learned and try something else. Keep repeating until something lucky happens. The universe has plenty of luck to go around; you just need to keep your hand raised until it’s your turn. It helps to see failure as a road and not a wall.|Scott Adams

I wouldn’t call Loopt a failure. It didn’t turn out like I wanted  for sure         but it was fun           I learned a lot   and I made enough money to start investing       which led me to my current job. I don’t regret it at all.|Sam Altman

Failure is what we’re all running from       we’re always running toward success with failure at our back.|Natalie Goldberg

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.|Henry Miller

The difference between a score in the 90s and a century is often reflected as the difference between failure and success. It may be illogical     but in cricket a century has its own magic.|Geoffrey Boycott

Whether in success or in failure     I’m proud of every single movie I’ve ever directed.|Steven Spielberg

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

We have equated a cancer diagnosis to ‘death      ‘ but we look at diabetes as ‘something that you get when you get older.’ But look at diabetes – it’s the leading cause of limb amputation           heart disease           kidney failure. Many people don’t equate diabetes with these other destructive things. I didn’t equate it to those until I started reading about it.|Eric Adams

I lost my father. He had diabetes and high BP and so he died of kidney failure.|Varun Sharma

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.|Richard V. Allen

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.|Orison Swett Marden

The failure of world leaders to act on the critical issue of global warming is often blamed on economic considerations.|David Suzuki

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.|Irving Babbitt

Failure can teach you something    and as long as you’re moving very            very quickly you’re going to start piling up the wins. Speed gives you the luxury to be able to fail.|Dara Khosrowshahi

The human spirit is so resilient      and failure teaches you so much.|Molly Bloom

Life is bigger than cinema. Cinema is just a part of life so I never take success or failure seriously.|Pawan Kalyan

Obviously      I agree with Trump on many of his criticisms of the mainstream media. You can absolutely argue that their failure to report honestly      to get outraged before we could    and to collude with the Clinton campaign directly led to the rise of Trump.|Dave Rubin

Success breeds success       and failure leads to a sort of fallow period.|Felicity Kendal

I have never feared failure.|Anh Do

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.|Michael Crawford

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.|Lupe Fiasco

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.|Michael Gove

The history of the outbreak of war 100 years ago and of the collapse of the fragile balance of power in Europe in the summer of 1914 is a disturbing tale of the failure of the governing elites and the military            but also of diplomacy.|Frank-Walter Steinmeier

I have been relegated as a player   and I have suffered the feeling of failure. It is awful     and when you are part of an international outfit that gets so close and you don’t do it   it is not a good feeling. I don’t want that again. I want to be part of a team that does something no one else has done.|Chris Coleman

If you show me someone who’s afraid of failure I’ll show you someone who is not a groundbreaking            innovative pioneer of a certain industry.|Paul Heyman

There would seem to be a limit      even for an art preoccupied with boundaries and transgressions            beyond which a work reaches its breaking point and becomes an actual failure       a mere experimentation.|Brian Ferneyhough

The failure of the U.S.’s foreign adventures often seems to have its roots in the U.S.’s total ignorance of things on the ground       of the countries that they fiddle with.|Peter Carey

Feeling is the consciousness of the resulting conditions – of success   failure           equilibrium  compromise or balance       in this continuous rivalry of ideas.|James Mark Baldwin

Like anyone  I’m scared of failure. That drives you to work really hard.|David Droga

I myself          as an American Indian        feel like a failure in a way. I have not been able to do anything about the fact that these large corporations are taking so much natural gas and oil out of the soil. It seems like we’re always involved in fighting something. It’s tiresome.|Wes Studi

For years        media moguls and campaigns bankrolled by the rich have fed the lie that migrants are the cause of injustices propagated by the powerful: the failure to build housing        the strain on public services by cuts        the lack of secure jobs        the decline in real wages.|Owen Jones

Anything less than gold is a failure to me. It’s extreme pressure          but I hold myself to a high standard.|Jordan Burroughs

A fictionalised memoir of my father would be a failure as a novel.|Richard Flanagan

Every individual suffers from the fear of failure but you can change your destiny only when you overcome it.|Anupam Kher

Obama said that his performance at bowling was so bad ‘it was like the Special Olympics or something.’ Disability       by Obama’s definition        was about difference and failure.|Jack Thorne

There is no question that the Islamic State will be defeated in Mosul; the real question is what comes afterward. Can the post-Islamic State effort resolve the squabbling likely to arise over numerous issues and bring lasting stability to one of Iraq’s most diverse and challenging provinces? Failure to do so could lead to ISIS 3.0.|David Petraeus

How you succeed is how you deal with failure. Whatever way you dress it up          something hasn’t worked.|Brendan Rodgers

It’s not compatible to expect multilateralism to work and          at the same time       to expect to walk out with everything you wanted. This is a recipe for failure. If we prize the system we have to come knowing that we will need to make compromises. Sometimes painful compromises.|Roberto Azevedo

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?|Rahm Emanuel

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.|Jonathan Kozol

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

There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success.|Max Beerbohm

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.|Judith Butler

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.|Felix Dennis

Celebrating failure is key. Half of what we do fails        at least.|Nancy Dubuc

It’s your own fear of failure that stops you from doing things.|Anupam Kher

Jill Eisenstadt’s comic second novel          ‘Kiss Out       ‘ is a work of such extravagant wackiness eccentricity   and exuberance that any attempt to squeeze it into the confines of a simple plot summary seems doomed to failure and is possibly pointless.|Stephen McCauley

Failure is authentic  and because it’s authentic  it’s real and genuine and because of that it’s a pure state of being.|Douglas Coupland

The reality of most software development is that the consequences of failure are simply nonexistent.|Dan Kaminsky

For me            the path of failure exceeded by far the joys of success. My plight was hopeless.|Dominick Dunne

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.|Jimmy Connors

I don’t have any fear of failure whatsoever. I used to      and I told myself I wouldn’t allow myself to anymore.|Jaylen Brown

I was pretty bad. When I first was diagnosed with kidney failure        my function – the function of my kidney was less than 8 percent.|Natalie Cole

Yes     ‘Aagadu’ was a failure. I was dejected for a couple of months since there was a lot at stake.|Mahesh Babu

I suppose that fear of failure is what drives me on.|Brendan Rodgers

I’ve discovered people in my lifetime who are like         ‘I always wanted to sing but… ‘ It’s like    ‘Well then      did you try?’ My thing was always not caring about failure.|Brian Tyree Henry

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.|Clayton M. Christensen

It is hard as an American to support the failure of American military operations in Iraq. Such failure will bring with it the death and wounding of many American service members        and many more Iraqis.|Scott Ritter

Success is transient and so is failure.|Mandira Bedi

I have never  ever considered myself a failure.|Eddie the Eagle

I’m continuing to figure it out every single year: Life is a challenge    and the ones that succeed in life are the tough-minded ones that are not willing to accept failure.|Jermaine O’Neal

Modern political liberalism particularly its racial orthodoxy    is the science of excuse-making   the training of black minds for failure.|Jason Whitlock

When I was about 15… I made my first attempt as a leading lady        and was         of course       a complete failure.|Maude Adams

I felt a failure because I couldn’t sustain myself from what I earned from my writing. My day jobs were what mattered           and it was hard to even get those because universities wouldn’t hire me as a real writer.|Sandra Cisneros

Trump’s biggest failure as a political leader is that he sees the worst in people          and he encourages the worst in people.|J. D. Vance

If China stood on an equal basis with other nations        she could compete freely with them in the economic field and be able to hold her own without failure. But as soon as foreign nations use political power as a shield for their economic designs       then China is at a loss how to resist or to compete successfully with them.|Sun Yat-sen

I don’t know the key to success      but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.|Bill Cosby

At the root of many a woman’s failure to become a great cook lies her failure to develop a workmanlike regard for knives.|Robert Farrar Capon

Success and failure are greatly overrated. But failure gives you a whole lot more to talk about.|Hildegard Knef

In order to succeed  your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.|Bill Cosby

Most people think of success and failure as opposites   but they both are products of the same process.|Roger von Oech

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.|George Eliot

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.|Michael Korda

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.|John B. S. Haldane

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.|Greil Marcus

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.|George Allen

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

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.|Rupert Holmes

I believe only in art and failure.|Jane Rule

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.|James Lane Allen

I think I’ve failed every test I’ve ever taken. If there was a failure I would have been it.|Lisa Marie Presley

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

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?|Debra Winger

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.|Paul Twitchell

One of the biggest problems with the modern feminist movement is its failure to bring men along with us.|Tammy Bruce

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

I think you can learn as much from success as you can from failure.|Corey Hart

I think somehow you need to get to a certain point in your life where the notion of failure is absurd.|Jeff Tweedy

I failed first grade     which is my biggest problem. You always feel like a failure   like you’re stupid.|Amy Sedaris

But all actors go through the process        it’s hit and miss        you have achievement and failure.|Thomas Haden Church

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

The very reasons sometimes that you make a film are the reasons for its failure.|Sydney Pollack

Definitely      it’s a fear of failure that drives me.|Jerry Bruckheimer

Humanitarian missions are little different from any other public enterprise   diplomacy included which is susceptible of misinterpretation by the public  hence ultimately of failure.|Alvin Adams

Well    I think it’s too early to call Fallujah a failure.|Chuck Schumer

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.|Estelle Morris

But if you look at WorldCom         which is the biggest failure to date           they grew dramatically            they were buying companies that were bigger than they were and they were doing it off inflated stock.|Don Nickles

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.|John Poindexter

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.|Henry A. Wallace

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.|Shane Leslie

But if you have a solid walk with the Lord           then you won’t fear that failure.|Cliff Richard

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

So I try not to have any actual expectations for myself for any level of success or failure.|Gavin DeGraw

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

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.|Michael Baden

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

Fear of failure has always been my best motivator.|Douglas Wood

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.|Laurence Housman

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

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

The failure of the Russian Socialist Republic will be the defeat of the proletariat of the whole world.|Karl Liebknecht

If you’re 40 years old and you’ve never had a failure      you’ve been deprived.|Gloria Swanson

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.|Robert E. Howard

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.|Hart Crane

Failure is the most terrible thing in our business. When we fail            the whole world knows about it.|Desi Arnaz

Directly after the show people might have responded better to it         but who really knows. It did what it did and while it seems like a failure to most but it was a success for me and has given me so many opportunities.|Justin Guarini

The mere thought of divorce terrified me. To me            divorce symbolized failure.|Annette Funicello

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.|James Taylor

We all struggle with our failure to communicate and our failure to reach beyond fear to love people.|Mira Sorvino

Most of the work performed by a development engineer results in failure.|Koichi Tanaka

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.|Judd Nelson

With failure   you just try again.|Judd Nelson

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.|James F. Byrnes

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

In Iraq we must succeed. Failure is not an option.|Zbigniew Brzezinski

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.|Sam Donaldson

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.|Millicent Fawcett

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.|Michael Chertoff

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.|Marvin Minsky

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.|Mickey Gilley

Los Angeles was an impression of failure of disappointment   of despair     and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought.|Joseph Barbera

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

The time I had waited probably made the difference between success and failure.|Anna Neagle

I know acts and I’m not going to name names but these people sold ten million copies the first time and the second album sells three million and it’s considered a failure and they’re dropped and that’s really a shame.|Gerry Beckley

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.|Garry Shandling

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.|Gavyn Davies

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.|Sylvester Stallone

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

Pharmaceutical companies are enjoying unprecedented profits and access with this Administration. Yet the Republicans’ prescription drug plan for seniors has been a colossal failure          and over 43 million Americans wake up every morning without health insurance.|Jim Clyburn

It is Basic Management 101 that if you reward failure you are going to get more failure     and if you want success you should reward success. But if you look at the way this administration has approached national security       they have kind of got that principle backwards.|Chris Van Hollen

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.|Anna Garlin Spencer

I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.|Mason Cooley

You must not demand the failure of your peers   because the more good things that are around in film            in television in theater – why the better it is for all of us.|Jerome Lawrence

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.|Andrew Vachss

In Washington          success is just a training course for failure.|Simon Hoggart

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.|Michael Ramsey

I simply don’t believe in failure. In itself  it doesn’t exist. We create it. We make ourselves fail.|Alice Foote MacDougall

We can’t have a failure in Iraq        but we also can’t be there for the next 10 years because if we are            it’s going to become I think           a failure in and of itself.|Dennis Ross

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

Sometimes failure isn’t an opportunity in disguise          it’s just you.|Douglas Coupland

Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure.|Douglas Coupland

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.|John Mica

When you experience a failure as a leader           don’t hide it – talk about it. Your missed opportunity will encourage others to take risks.|Naveen Jain

I don’t want to feel like a failure to my daughter. She’s the best thing I’ve ever done. Buffy – pretty great and all but Charlotte’s way better.|Sarah Michelle Gellar

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.|Lev Yilmaz

As a younger player you always kind of play with that fear of failure.|Jason Giambi

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.|Ethan Hawke

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

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.|Cory Lidle

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.|Peter Berg

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?|Michael Fassbender

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.|Bryce Dallas Howard

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.|Matt Emmons

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.|Trisha Yearwood

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

With the NDAA        his failure to close Guantanamo Bay and the ramping use of drones  President Obama looks suspiciously like President Bush   a man on a quest for American Empire.|Justin Sane

The difference between a beautifully made failure and a beautifully made hit is who you’ve got playing the leads.|Steven Moffat

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.|Gabrielle Union

I don’t have a fear factor. Well       not much of one. And I’m willing to risk quite a lot – as a comedian            you’re always risking a lot. You’re risking failure          especially if you’re improvising and going on TV shows trying to make comedy out of thin air. That is quite a risky business.|David Walliams

I don’t need to be looking at every failure of government          I need to be looking where failure of government needs reform.|Darrell Issa

I wish I had been more prepared   both for success and for failure     when I was younger.|Molly Ringwald

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.|Toby Young

America thinks of itself as a meritocracy so people have more respect for success and more contempt for failure.|Toby Young

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

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.|Alexander Wang