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The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.
– Francis Picabia
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I think I've failed every test I've ever taken. If there was a failure I would have been it.
– Lisa Marie Presley
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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.
– Tony Richardson
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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.
– Anthony Robbins
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There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.
– Anthony Robbins
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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
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Show me a good and gracious loser and I'll show you a failure.
– Knute Rockne
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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
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I believe only in art and failure.
– Jane Rule
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Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.
– Rosalind Russell
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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
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My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.
– Harry S. Truman
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Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.
– Marquis de Vauvenargues
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To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.
– Denis Waitley
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Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.
– Daniel Webster
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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
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Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
– Oscar Wilde
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If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.
– Edward O. Wilson
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You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give.
– Edward O. Wilson
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I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.
– Oprah Winfrey
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You can be discouraged by failure, or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes, make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success - on the far side of failure.
– Thomas J. Watson, Sr.
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It's how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success.
– Charlotte Whitton
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Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
– Calvin Coolidge
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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
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If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.
– Dan Quayle
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Young players need freedom of expression to develop as creative players... they should be encouraged to try skills without fear of failure.
– Arsene Wenger
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You'll never convince me there is a hopeless situation or there is any finality in any success or any failure.
– Carlos Ghosn
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You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. This is done by making an affirmation which 'clicks.'
– Florence Scovel Shinn
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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
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You have to risk failure to succeed. The important thing is not to make one single mistake that will jeopardize the future.
– An Wang
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You have to be able to accept failure to get better.
– LeBron James
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You gotta lose 'em some of the time. When you do, lose 'em right.
– Casey Stengel
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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
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You cannot learn anything from success, you only learn from failure.
– Jim Dale
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You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.
– Zig Ziglar
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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
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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
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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
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Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.
– Amelia Earhart
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Without failure there is no sweetness in success. There's no understanding of it.
– Glenn Beck
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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
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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
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With improvisation, I just do it. It might be a total failure but then you just throw the dice again.
– Christian Marclay
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With failure, you just try again.
– Judd Nelson
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With everything that is complex, we learn. If you don't learn, then it's an utter and abject failure. If you do learn, and you're able to apply that to the next situation, then you take away a measure of success.
– Benjamin Carson
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Why do we capital-N Nerds love Mars so much? Because it's beautiful, it's tough, it's buried in our mythic, childhood memories. It's covered with human triumphs but also with sad stories of failure.
– Greg Bear
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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
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Who I am as a guitarist is defined by my failure to become Jimi Hendrix.
– John Mayer
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Whether in success or in failure, I'm proud of every single movie I've ever directed.
– Steven Spielberg
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When you're fearless, you take more risks because you're less conscious of failure or what can go wrong.
– Brett Ratner
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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
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When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
– George Bernard Shaw
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When I was about 15... I made my first attempt as a leading lady, and was, of course, a complete failure.
– Maude Adams
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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
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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
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What we've got here is a failure to communicate.
– Donn Pearce
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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
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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
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Well, the idea is that failure is an inevitable partner on the road to success and, if you're not willing to confront failure, you can never find out how good you are.
– Peter Guber
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Well, I think it's too early to call Fallujah a failure.
– Charles Schumer
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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
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We're born with success. It is only others who point out our failures, and what they attribute to us as failure.
– Whoopi Goldberg
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We now live in a world where the only thing to have is success, but failure is marvelous. It's fertiliser, it's like living fertiliser, because you're forced on yourself.
– Rupert Everett
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We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes - understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success.
– Arianna Huffington
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We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
– Samuel Smiles
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We know there is no such thing as freedom without the risk of failure.
– Rick Perry
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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
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We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
– Rudyard Kipling
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We have actually experienced in recent months a dramatic demonstration of an unprecedented intelligence failure, perhaps the most significant intelligence failure in the history of the United States.
– Zbigniew Brzezinski
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We go there with confidence, but we know there is a very fine line between success and failure in this game.
– Alan Shearer
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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
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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
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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
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We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts.
– Gary Player
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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
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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
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We all struggle with our failure to communicate and our failure to reach beyond fear to love people.
– Mira Sorvino
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Washington, D.C. is what is broken, not the immigration policies. We have good laws. We have people suffer every day because of government's failure to enforce the law and be respectful to the process we have. We have a pathway to citizenship already in place.
– Russell Pearce
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War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.
– Bill Moyers
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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
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War is failure of diplomacy.
– John Dingell
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Unwillingness to risk failure is always there, but it gets harder when you feel you have more to lose.
– Demi Moore
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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
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Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result? Could the underlying cause be our failure to correctly understand the true nature of happiness?
– Daisaku Ikeda
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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
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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
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To me, all war is failure for humanity, though it often is a bounty for commerce.
– Mark Edwards
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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
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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
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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
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Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.
– Napoleon Hill
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They who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure.
– James Allen
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They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?
– Fidel Castro
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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
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There's no such thing as failure - just waiting for success.
– John Osborne
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There's no right or wrong, success or failure.
– Miley Cyrus
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There's always failure. And there's always disappointment. And there's always loss. But the secret is learning from the loss, and realizing that none of those holes are vacuums.
– Michael J. Fox
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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
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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
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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
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