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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...

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