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Edward Abbey
Belief in the supernatural reflects...
Scott Adams
The only risk of failure is...
Maude Adams
When I was about 15... I...
Maude Adams
Don't be afraid of failure; be...
Maude Adams
Life is so fresh, life is...
Alvin Adams
Humanitarian missions are little different...
Scott Adams
Most success springs from an...
Alfred Adler
No experience is a cause of...
Rodney Alexander
I knew that there were several...
James Allen
To begin to think with purpose...
George Allen
I rise today to offer a...
James Lane Allen
He who has conquered doubt and...
James Lane Allen
To begin to think with purpose...
Fred A. Allen
Most of us spend the first...
Richard V. Allen
Our system provides for a...
James Allen
They who have conquered doubt...
James Allen
To begin to think with purpose...
Aldrich Ames
The Soviet Union did not...
Susan B. Anthony
Failure is impossible.
Karen Armstrong
Mohammed was not an apparent...
Desi Arnaz
Failure is the most terrible...
Mary Kay Ash
For every failure, there's an...
Paddy Ashdown
The greatest failure is that...
Irving Babbitt
To harmonize the One with the...
Thomas Babington
American democracy must be a...
Roger Babson
It is wise to keep in...
Roger Babson
Keep in mind that neither...
Edward Bach
The main reason for the...
Michael Baden
I saw why people died and...
Tom Baker
I have never described the...
James A. Baldwin
The young think that failure...
James M. Baldwin
Feeling is the consciousness of...
Toni Cade Bambara
The dream is real, my friends...
Joseph Barbera
Los Angeles was an impression...
Chuck Barris
There's tons of creative people...
Anne Baxter
I wasn't afraid to fail...
Anne Baxter
It's best to have failure...
Xavier Becerra
Twenty million more have Chronic...
Xavier Becerra
African Americans make up about...
Gerry Beckley
I know acts and I'm not...
Max Beerbohm
There is much to be said...
Dirk Benedict
Hollywood... a city I was to...
Tony Benn
All war represents a failure...
Bruno Bettelheim
The fear of failure is so...
Chen Shui-bian
I understand the harsh feelings...
Ambrose Bierce
Destiny: A tyrant's authority for...
Ambrose Bierce
A person who doubts himself is...
Gary Ryan Blair
Discipline is based on pride...
Gary Ryan Blair
Creative risk taking is essential...
Gary Ryan Blair
Thoughtless risks are destructive, of...
Arthur Bloch
A failure will not appear...
Allan Bloom
The failure to read good books...
Orlando Bloom
Failure is simply the non...
Orlando Bloom
There's a difference between a...
Matt Blunt
Over the next four years, we...
Bodhidharma
But while success and failure...
William Frederick Book
Never permit failure to become...
Louis E. Boone
Don't fear failure so much...
Neal Boortz
The key to accepting responsibility...
Christian Nestell Bovee
A failure establishes only this...
Dorthea Brande
All that is necessary to break...
Carol Moseley Braun
The failure in Ohio to have...
Craig Breedlove
There's only one thing that...
Christie Brinkley
We decided to try in vitro...
Joyce Brothers
The person interested in success...
Robert Browning
A minute's success pays the...
Tammy Bruce
One of the biggest problems...
Jerry Bruckheimer
Definitely, it's a fear of...
Zbigniew Brzezinski
We have actually experienced in...
Zbigniew Brzezinski
In Iraq we must succeed...
Buddha
The only real failure in life...
George Burns
I honestly think it is better...
George Burns
I'd rather be a failure at...
John Burroughs
A man can fail many times...
John Burroughs
A man can get discouraged many...
George W. Bush
I'm hopeful. I know there is...
James F. Byrnes
The carrying out of the...
Elias Canetti
The paranoiac is the exact...
George Canning
Indecision and delays are the...
Robert Farrar Capon
At the root of many a...
Truman Capote
Failure is the condiment that...
Dale Carnegie
Develop success from failures. Discouragement...
Rosalynn Carter
You must accept that you might...
Jimmy Carter
It's not necessary to fear the...
Rosalynn Carter
If you don't accept failure as...
Johnny Cash
You build on failure. You use...
Fidel Castro
They talk about the failure of...
Chanakya
Once you start a working on...
Coco Chanel
Success is often achieved by...
Charlie Chaplin
Failure is unimportant. It takes...
Michael Chertoff
Well, I think first of all...
Thomas Haden Church
Their lives have been largely...
Thomas Haden Church
But all actors go through the...
Winston Churchill
Success is going from failure...
Winston Churchill
Success is not final, failure...
Winston Churchill
Success consists of going from...
Winston Churchill
Socialism is a philosophy of...
Winston Churchill
Success is going from failure...
Albert Claude
This attempt to isolate cell...
William Kingdon Clifford
When an action is once done...
Montgomery Clift
Failure and its accompanying misery...
George Clooney
The only failure is not to...
Jim Clyburn
Pharmaceutical companies are enjoying unprecedented...
Ty Cobb
Don't come home a failure.
Tom Cochrane
Tragedy in life normally comes...
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
In politics, what begins in...
Confucius
Success depends upon previous preparation...
Jimmy Connors
Rather than viewing a brief...
Charles Horton Cooley
Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit...
Mason Cooley
I read less and less. I...
John Sherman Cooper
I think he Oswald felt he...
Jon Corzine
It has now been over 7...
Bill Cosby
I don't know the key to...
Bill Cosby
In order to succeed, your...
Kevin Costner
Failure doesn't kill you... it...
Norman Cousins
The main failure of education...
Hart Crane
The fact that The Bridge...
Michael Crawford
Sometimes you learn more from...
Quentin Crisp
If at first you don't succeed...
Davy Crockett
Heaven knows that I have done...
George Cukor
You can't have any successes...
Anthony J. D'Angelo
The only real failure in life...
Jim Dale
You cannot learn anything from...
Roger Daltrey
I don't think there's any way...
Arthur C. Danto
It really is impossible not to...
Dale Dauten
Spend enough time around success...
Gavyn Davies
It was an interesting question...
Colin R. Davis
The road to success and the...
Gavin DeGraw
So I try not to have...
Ron Dellums
Failure is not a crime. The...
John Dewey
Failure is instructive. The person...
Vin Diesel
If you're the type of person...
Edsger Dijkstra
Elegance is not a dispensable...
John Dingell
War is failure of diplomacy.
Benjamin Disraeli
Through perseverance many people win...
Mike Ditka
Success isn't permanent and failure...
Shannen Doherty
I met Ashley two weeks before...
Sam Donaldson
I don't know many people, if...
Edward Dowden
Sometimes a noble failure serves...
Margaret Drabble
Nothing fails like failure.
Margaret Drabble
Nothing succeeds, they say, like...
John Drinkwater
So it is in poetry. All...
Alexandre Dumas
A person who doubts himself is...
James Dyson
Enjoy failure and learn from...
Amelia Earhart
Women must try to do things...
Amelia Earhart
Women, like men, should try to...
Amelia Earhart
Please know that I am aware...
Umberto Eco
Translation is the art of...
Thomas A. Edison
Show me a thoroughly satisfied...
Thomas A. Edison
Restlessness is discontent and discontent...
Mark Edwards
To me, all war is failure...
Edward Eggleston
Persistent people begin their success...
George Eliot
The only failure one should...
George Eliot
There is only one failure in...
George Eliot
I'm proof against that word...
George Eliot
Failure after long perseverance is...
George Eliot
The only failure a man ought...
Rahm Emanuel
What is more comforting to the...
William Empson
Slowly the poison the whole...
Erik Erikson
Children love and want to be...
Hans Eysenck
In our tabulation of psychoanalytic...
Oriana Fallaci
War is something Arafat sends...
Agnetha Faltskog
It has always felt like a...
Jerry Falwell
If you're not a born-again...
Frederic William Farrar
There is only one real failure...
Mike Farrell
If you try to do your...
William Faulkner
All of us failed to match...
Millicent Fawcett
The assertion of failure coming...
William Feather
No man is a failure who...
William Feather
No man is a failure who...
Brian Ferneyhough
Questioning the nature and implications...
Brian Ferneyhough
There would seem to be a...
Bryan Ferry
It's not a very high failure...
Harvey Fierstein
In Torch Song, I did that...
Edmond H. Fischer
It is commonly said that a...
Errol Flynn
Any man who has $10,000 left...
B. C. Forbes
The man who has done his...
Malcolm Forbes
Failure is success if we learn...
B. C. Forbes
The man who has done his...
B. C. Forbes
The man who has won millions...
Steve Forbes
The rise of China as a...
Steve Forbes
Our failure to properly deal...
Henry Ford
Failure is simply the opportunity...
Benjamin Franklin
Do not fear mistakes. You will...
E. Franklin Frazier
Educational institutes can no longer...
Robert Fripp
There are no mistakes, save...
Annette Funicello
The mere thought of divorce...
John Kenneth Galbraith
War remains the decisive human...
John W. Gardner
One of the reasons people stop...
John W. Gardner
One of the reasons mature...
Bill Gates
It's fine to celebrate success...
J. Paul Getty
I hate to be a failure...
Paul Getty
A hatred of failure has always...
Boutros Boutros-Ghali
The failure of the United...
Alberto Giacometti
All I can do will only...
Roland Gift
Our managers hadn't had that...
Mickey Gilley
My only failure was the...
Carol Gilligan
In the different voice of...
Nikki Giovanni
I really don't think life is...
Hugh Grant
The only reason my work seems...
Graham Greene
Failure too is a form of...
Graham Greene
Success is more dangerous than...
Justin Guarini
Directly after the show people...
John Haggai
Attempt something so impossible that...
Alexander Haig
You have to look at the...
John B. S. Haldane
We do not know, in most...
Robert Half
Laziness is a secret ingredient...
Lee H. Hamilton
Foreign aid is neither a...
Mia Hamm
Failure happens all the time...
Alan Hansen
The pressures are intense, because...
Brian Harris
The failure of Socialism since...
Corey Hart
I think you can learn as...
Doc Hastings
As efforts to fix this failure...
S. I. Hayakawa
Notice the difference between what...
S. I. Hayakawa
Notice the difference between what...
Chris Hedges
The failure to dissect the...
Lillian Hellman
Failure in the theater is more...
Ernest Hemingway
Why should anybody be interested...
John Hersey
Learning starts with failure; the...
John Hersey
It's a failure of national...
Theodor Herzl
Philanthropic colonization is a failure...
Abraham Joshua Heschel
Man's sin is in his failure...
Napoleon Hill
The majority of men meet with...
Napoleon Hill
Every adversity, every failure, every...
Napoleon Hill
Most great people have attained...
Napolean Hill
Every adversity, every failure, and...
Napolean Hill
Failure is nature's plan to...
Napoleon Hill
Think twice before you speak...
Napoleon Hill
No man ever achieved worth...
Ruben Hinojosa
If we do not get No...
Eric Hoffer
It is often the failure who...
Eric Hoffer
There is no loneliness greater...
Simon Hoggart
In Washington, success is just...
Chris Van Hollen
It is Basic Management 101...
Rupert Holmes
Having in my life been bitten...
Soichiro Honda
Success is 99 percent failure.
Soichiro Honda
Success represents the 1% of...
Sidney Hook
Students rarely disappoint teachers who...
Tom Hopkins
I never see failure as failure...
Laurence Housman
My failure, during the first...
Robert E. Howard
But whatever my failure, I...
Elbert Hubbard
There is no failure except in...
Elbert Hubbard
A failure is a man who...
Elbert Hubbard
Optimism is a kind of heart...
Kin Hubbard
There is no failure except in...
Elbert Hubbard
The line between failure and...
Elbert Hubbard
A little more persistence, a...
Oliver Hudson
His advice to me is basically...
Arianna Huffington
We need to accept that we...
Morton Hunt
Americans, who make more of...
Bonnie Hunt
I think that failure by your...
William Hurt
Sometimes people call me a...
Charles Inglis
A Failure in this Duty did...
Daniel Inouye
Mr. Gonzales' failure to respond...
Jeremy Irons
So nevertheless, what I'm saying...
Jeremy Irons
I constantly experience failure in...
William James
Success or failure depends more...
William James
There is but one cause of...
Alice James
The success or failure of a...
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Failure is a word unknown to...
Sonia Johnson
What we have most to fear...
Lyndon B. Johnson
The guns and bombs, the...
Lyndon B. Johnson
The guns and the bombs, the...
John H. Johnson
Failure is a word that I...
Don Johnson
People in the business will...
Michael Jordan
I can accept failure, but I...
Michael Jordan
I can accept failure, everyone...
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
If you're doing your best, you...
H. Stanley Judd
Don't be afraid to fail. Don't...
Wynonna Judd
My story of success and...
Dean Kamen
My biggest failure is I have...
Herbert Kaufman
Failure is only postponed success...
John Keats
There is not a fiercer hell...
Felicity Kendal
Success breeds success, and failure...
Jack Kerouac
My fault, my failure, is not...
Jean Kerr
I think success has no rules...
Charles Kettering
We need to teach the highly...
Eli Khamarov
One failure is worth seven and...
Victor Kiam
Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing...
Rudyard Kipling
We have forty million reasons...
Tom Kite
Fear comes in two packages...
Hildegard Knef
Success and failure are greatly...
Henry Knox
Something is wanting, and something...
Michael Korda
The freedom to fail is vital...
Michael Korda
Never walk away from failure...
Michael Korda
This is true enough, but...
Harvey Korman
And I went to New York...
Henry Kravis
As I said there is nothing...
Mike Krzyzewski
In high school, in sport, I...
Mike Krzyzewski
I think some parents now look...
Mike Krzyzewski
I've tried to handle winning...
Sanjay Kumar
Failure is unfortunately as common...
Tommy Lasorda
About the only problem with...
Tommy Lasorda
Pressure is a word that is...
Jerome Lawrence
You must not demand the...
Robert E. Lee
We failed, but in the good...
Sheila Jackson Lee
By virtually any measure, the...
Jack Lemmon
Failure seldom stops you. What...
Sean Lennon
There are only really a few...
Shane Leslie
We are equally glad and...
Elmer G. Letterman
A man may fall many times...
Karl Liebknecht
The failure of the Russian...
Joseph B. Lightfoot
I will not be discouraged by...
Joseph B. Lightfoot
The success and the failure...
Joseph B. Lightfoot
We do not realise that we...
Abraham Lincoln
My great concern is not...
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
However things may seem, no...
Audre Lorde
The failure of academic feminists...
James Russell Lowell
Not failure, but low aim, is...
James Russell Lowell
Greatly begin. Though thou have...
Alice Foote MacDougall
I simply don't believe in...
Gustav Mahler
The point is not to take...
Michael Malone
I think the greatest taboos in...
Andre Malraux
Often the difference between a...
Maxwell Maltz
Often the difference between a...
Og Mandino
Sound character provides the power...
Og Mandino
Failure will never overtake me...
Greil Marcus
No failure in America, whether...
Orison Sweet Marden
Achievement is not always success...
Orison Sweet Marden
There can be no failure to...
Melinda M. Marshall
Working mothers are just as...
Abraham Maslow
One's only rival is one's own...
Dave Matthews
I fear that our true...
Benjamin E. Mays
Not failure, but low aim is...
John McCarthy
Of course, Third World leaders...
Bryant H. McGill
While it is important for...
Marshall McLuhan
Mass transportation is doomed to...
H. L. Mencken
The theory seems to be that...
Henry Miller
No matter how vast, how total...
Marvin Minsky
There was a failure to...
Wilson Mizner
Failure has gone to his head...
Claude Monet
My life has been nothing but...
Gordon Moore
With engineering, I view this...
Berthe Morisot
A love of nature is a...
Christopher Morley
A man who has never made...
Estelle Morris
Before this government came to...
John Mortimer
There is always time for...
Johann Most
Is anarchism possible? The failure...
Bill Moyers
War, except in self-defense...
Malcolm Muggeridge
There is no such thing as...
Mike Murdock
Failure to prepare is preparing...
Anna Neagle
The time I had waited probably...
Jawaharlal Nehru
Failure comes only when we...
Judd Nelson
My Brat Pack buddies and I...
Judd Nelson
With failure, you just try...
Don Nickles
But if you look at WorldCom...
Chester W. Nimitz
Is the proposed operation likely...
Albert J. Nock
As might be supposed, my...
P. J. O'Rourke
Ideology, politics and journalism, which...
Barack Obama
The Bush Administration's failure to...
Roger von Oech
Remember the two benefits of...
Roger von Oech
Most people think of success...
Ben Okri
The higher the artist, the...
Harry Oppenheimer
It must not be forgotten in...
Robert Orben
Don't think of it as failure...
John Osborne
There's no such thing as...
Bill Parcells
Success is never final, but...
Gordon Parks
At first I wasn't sure that...
Walter Pater
In a sense it might even...
Norman Vincent Peale
Any fact facing us is not...
Donn Pearce
What we've got here is a...
Elizabeth Pena
When I got Jacob's Latter, I...
James Cash Penney
I believe in trusting men, not...
Laurence J. Peter
The great question is not...
Mike Peters
It breaks my heart to see...
T. Boone Pickens
I've always believed that it's...
T. Boone Pickens
I have always believed that...
Mary Pickford
Supposing you have tried and...
Mary Pickford
If you have made mistakes...
Mary Pickford
You may have a fresh start...
Kenneth L. Pike
Outward failure may be a...
Gifford Pinchot
Unless we practice conservation, those...
Rick Pitino
Failure is good. It's fertilizer...
Gary Player
We create success or failure...
John Poindexter
You accept failure as a...
Sydney Pollack
The very reasons sometimes that...
Colin Powell
There are no secrets to...
Colin Powell
Leadership is solving problems. The...
Colin Powell
Success is the result of...
Lisa Marie Presley
I think I've failed every test...
Alan Price
The one phrase you can use...
Dan Quayle
If we don't succeed we run...
Carroll Quigley
The failure of Christianity in...
Anna Quindlen
The clearest explanation for the...
Anna Quindlen
I'm sure not afraid of success...
Harold Ramis
How one handles success or...
Michael Ramsey
Ken Lay has, does and will...
Sumner Redstone
Success is not built on...
Jules Renard
Failure is not our only...
Cliff Richard
But if you have a solid...
Tony Richardson
Failure is not fatal; victory...
Elliot Richardson
There is an increasingly pervasive...
Branch Rickey
I find fault with my children...
Alan Rickman
I want to swim in both...
Tony Robbins
I've come to believe that all...
Tony Robbins
There is no such thing as...
Frederick William Robertson
In God's world, for those who...
Knute Rockne
Show me a good and gracious...
Jim Rohn
Failure is simply a few errors...
Jim Rohn
Failure is not a single...
Dave Van Ronk
You can't be afraid of failure...
Mickey Rooney
You always pass failure on...
Mickey Rooney
You always pass failure on the...
Theodore Roosevelt
Far better is it to dare...
Dennis Ross
We can't have a failure in...
Jane Rule
I believe only in art and...
Rosalind Russell
Success is a public affair...
Burt Rutan
Testing leads to failure, and...
Herbert Samual
It takes two to make a...
Carl Sandburg
All human actions are equivalent...
David Sarnoff
The will to persevere is often...
Jean-Paul Sartre
All human actions are equivalent...
Adam Savage
Failure is always an option.
Maximilian Schell
And in reality, I don't think...
Adam Schiff
Our failure to find weapons of...
Phyllis Schlafly
Feminism is doomed to failure...
Robert H. Schuller
Failure doesn't mean you are a...
Robert H. Schuller
If there exists no possibility...
Charles Schumer
Well, I think it's too early...
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Failure is not an option...
Walter Scott
Success or failure in business...
Amy Sedaris
I failed first grade, which is...
Robert Service
No man can be a failure...
Garry Shandling
I think it's one of the...
George Bernard Shaw
Never fret for an only son...
George Bernard Shaw
My reputation grows with every...
Alan Shearer
We go there with confidence...
Charlie Sheen
As kids we're not taught how...
Florence Scovel Shinn
Every great work, every big...
Florence Scovel Shinn
You will be a failure, until...
Don Shula
Success is not forever and...
B. F. Skinner
A failure is not always a...
Samuel Smiles
It is a mistake to suppose...
Samuel Smiles
We learn wisdom from failure...
Frederick Smith
Fear of failure must never be...
Steven Soderbergh
I'm very comfortable with failure...
Susan Sontag
Any critic is entitled to...
Mira Sorvino
We all struggle with our...
Thomas Sowell
Socialism in general has a...
Thomas Sowell
One of the common failings...
Anna Garlin Spencer
The failure of women to...
Thomas John Watson, Sr.
You can be discouraged by...
Thomas John Watson, Sr.
If you want to increase your...
Sylvester Stallone
I have a lack of fear...
Sylvester Stallone
Success is usually the culmination...
Gertrude Stein
A real failure does not need...
Ben Stiller
The failure of The Cable Guy...
Sting
That sense of failure, I don't...
W. Clement Stone
Like success, failure is many...
George Edmund Street
I think our failure in the...
Kurt Student
After that he turned to the...
Gloria Swanson
If you're 40 years old and...
Herbert Bayard Swope
I cannot give you the formula...
Herbert Bayard Swope
I cannot give you the formula...
William Howard Taft
Failure to accord credit to...
Amy Tan
I didn't fear failure. I...
Amy Tan
I think I've always been...
Koichi Tanaka
Most of the work performed by...
Serj Tankian
Civilization is a failure. We...
Allen Tate
So the poet, who wants to...
Major Taylor
The moral turpitude of the...
James Taylor
It's probably foolish to expect...
Cal Thomas
America's most dangerous diseases have...
William I. Thompson
Catastrophes are often stimulated by...
Paul Tillich
He who risks and fails can...
Hideki Tojo
The reason was the failure of...
Lily Tomlin
Don't be afraid of missing...
Arnold J. Toynbee
A life which does not go...
Harry S. Truman
My father was not a failure...
Robin Tunney
A film's success or failure is...
Jeff Tweedy
I think somehow you need to...
Paul Twitchell
Y'know, the real reason why I...
Lao Tzu
People in their handlings of...
Morihei Ueshiba
Failure is the key to success...
Andrew Vachss
I believe my publisher has...
Denis Waitley
Failure should be our teacher...
Denis Waitley
Forget about the consequences of...
Henry A. Wallace
This dullness of vision regarding...
Zach Wamp
Failure to properly control our...
An Wang
You have to risk failure to...
Earl Warren
The most tragic paradox of our...
Daniel Webster
Failure is more frequently from...
H. G. Wells
Crime and bad lives are the...
Arsene Wenger
Young players need freedom of...
Morris West
None of us is guaranteed...
William Whewell
Every failure is a step to...
Charlotte Whitton
It's how you deal with failure...
Oscar Wilde
Ambition is the last refuge of...
Tennessee Williams
I have always been pushed by...
Tennessee Williams
Success and failure are equally...
Billy Dee Williams
Failure's not a bad thing. It...
Earl Wilson
Success is simply a matter of...
E. O. Wilson
You are capable of more than...
E. O. Wilson
If those committed to the...
Oprah Winfrey
Think like a queen. A queen...
Oprah Winfrey
I don't believe in failure. It...
Oprah Winfrey
I do not believe in failure...
Debra Winger
I was never afraid of failure...
Douglas Wood
Fear of failure has always...
George Edward Woodberry
Defeat is not the worst of...
John Wooden
Failure is not fatal, but...
John Wooden
Success is never final, failure...
Carter G. Woodson
If Liberia has failed, then...
Bob Woodward
The failure of the system to...
Bob Woodward
Nixon's grand mistake was his...
Malcolm X
In all our deeds, the proper...
Rosalyn S. Yalow
The failure of women to have...
Paramahansa Yogananda
The season of failure is the...
Zig Ziglar
Remember that failure is an...
Zig Zi