Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
Carl Jung
I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.
Michael Jordan
Success and failure are equally disastrous.
Tennessee Williams
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
Theodore Roosevelt
I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.
Benjamin Franklin
We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.
Randy K. Milholland
There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.
Thomas Henry Huxley
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
Gore Vidal
Obviously a major malfunction.
Stephen Laberge
What would you do if you knew you could not fail?
Robert H. Schuller
There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.
Orison Swett Marden
Failure is a bottomless pit ready to devour you. If you always look up and never look down, failure is void.
Folashade' Ayanwale
People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which they are not.
Giacomo Leopardi
If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
Quentin Crisp
Do not take yourself too seriously. You have to learn not to be dismayed at making mistakes. No human being can avoid failures.
Lawrence G. Lovasik
Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.
Samuel McChord Crothers
When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It's like death.
Dennis Quaid
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
Beverly Sills
The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures.
Humphrey Davy
Supposing you have tried and failed again and again. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call "Failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.
Mary Pickford
Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.
Rick Pitino
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
Paul Tillich
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
George E. Woodberry
The only failure is not to try.
George Clooney
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan
Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.
Walt Whitman
Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, 'I have failed three times' and what happens when he says, I'm a failure.
S. I. Hayakawa
There's no such thing as failure - just waiting for success.
John Osborne
When life knocks you down you have two choices- stay down or get up.
Tom Krause
When you subsidise poverty and failure, you get more of both.
James Dale Davidson
Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.
John Keats
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
Dorothea Brande
My reputation grows with every failure.
George Bernard Shaw
Failure is defined by our reaction to it.
Oprah Winfrey
Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.
Zig Ziglar
You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.
Zig Ziglar
A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
Henry Ford
Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal.
Mike Ditka
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
Rudyard Kipling
I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.
George F. Burns
You always pass failure on the way to success.
Mickey Rooney
Remember that failure is an event, not a person.
Zig Ziglar
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
Robert Browning
About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure.
Tommy Lasorda
I can accept failure, but I can't accept not trying.
Michael Jordan
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
Bill Cosby
You can never get the smell of smoke out. Like the smell of failure in life.
John Updike
Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.
Jason Fried
Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail their failure must be but a challenge to others.
Amelia Earhart
A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
Christopher Morley
Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.
Jules Renard
Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act.
Maxwell Maltz
There is a very real brain component to addiction, and society up to now has for the most part has viewed it as failure of will.
Richard Pops
I think the state has failed. The failure goes back decades. The culpability goes back decades. We just didn't pay attention.
Jerry Patterson
Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.
Montgomery Clift
I have a fear of failure.
Joe Montana
No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
David O. Mckay
My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
Jack Kerouac
Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.
Rosalind Russell
One of the most important tasks of a manager is to eliminate his people's excuses for failure.
Robert Townsend
Failure is success if we learn from it.
Malcolm S. Forbes
It is as hard to take success as it is failure.
Louise Nevelson
Nothing beats a failure but a try.
Pauletta Vaughn
I underestimated the dilapidated, horrific conditions our city was in. ... My biggest failure was not communicating. We have a long way to go, but we've come a mighty long way.
Kwame Kilpatrick
A life which does not go into action is a failure.
Arnold Toynbee
If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.
Robert H. Schuller
Indecision and delays are the parents of failure.
George Canning
Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.
Charlie Chaplin
If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.
Tom Watson
He has a criminal history in Atlanta for failure to appear. That shows his propensity not to comply with a court order.
Lorrain Croy
Even if it broke, it wasn't a failure. If it didn't work, you adjust your thinking. That's what engineers do all the time.
Theresa Smith
When you see something like this, it begs asking what failure in their system led to this. Why didn't anyone pick it up?
Charles Elson
Huge failure on the part of the Bush administration...
Cal Thomas
Largest and most expensive marketing failure since the Edsel.
Adam Jaffe
The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality.
Toni Cade Bambara
We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts.
Gary Player
My play was a complete success. The audience was a failure.
Ashleigh Brilliant
Don't expect a catastrophic failure. It's localized seepage.
Chad Rachel
Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.
Og Mandino
99 percent of species put on this list are not extinct. That is not a failure; that's an enormous success.
Norm Dicks
If you're not a born-again Christian, you're a failure as a human being.
Jerry Falwell
But it would not surprise me. If it did happen it would be pretty much a failure of leadership.
Peter Charlton
When you're saddled with the fact that it's not low-level offenders and there's no accountability, it's doomed for failure.
David Labahn
Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.
Robert J. Mckain
Our failure to convert on second chances on defense really hurt us in the middle of the game.
Jesse Schwartzman
Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.
Jules Ellinger
The scale of this failure is staggering.
Adam Quinton
Don't think of it as failure. Think of it as time-released success.
Robert Orben
Fortunately there were no pedestrians or children or bicycles on top of the transformer at the time of the failure.
Paul Mitchell
Not failure, but low aim is sin.
Benjamin E. Mays
This case was entirely preventable. The failure here is one of resources.
Mary Lauby
He never did well in school, and she couldn't accept that. She felt it was a failure on her part.
Vivian Covard
A man carries his success or his failure with him, it does not depend on outside conditions.
Ralph Waldo Trine
A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.
Arthur Bloch
Don't be afraid of failure; be afraid of petty success.
Maude Adams
Failure to make progress.
Peter Jenkins
You cannot explain failure any more than you can argue with success.
Richard Clarke
He's no failure. He's not dead yet.
William Lloyd George
Attempt something so impossible that unless God is in it, it's doomed to failure.
John Haggai
The failure of love: that's what all laws are really.
Colman Mccarthy
Remember that what we do is not 'to' or 'for' the poor, ... but 'with' the poor. And even if we fail to eradicate poverty in this area, it will be a glorious failure!
David Potts
Failure to contain the present epidemic of obesity may accentuate the expected age-related increase in dementia.
Dr Rachel Whitmer
All we can say at this point is that there was not a catastrophic failure.
John Brannen
Failure to move now or to signal new determination to (do so) will make these weapons accepted currency.
Rosario Green
They who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure.
James Allen
Show me a good and gracious loser and I'll show you a failure.
Knute Rockne
It was a catastrophic failure.
Matt Andresen
We take this failure very seriously, and we will do everything possible to support compliance with the requirements of the agreement.
Rosemary Mucklow
Accredited has never paid a loss on a bail bond because of a failure to appear in court.
Debbie Jallad
I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure-which is: "Try to please everybody.
Herbert Bayard Swope
A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
Christian Nevell Bovee
Catastrophic failure to respond.
Terry Moran
Every attempt is a success. Failure is letting any chance to try go by.
James Dee Richardson
Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.
Coco Chanel
If the Bush economic program is as successful as they say it is, why do they keep firing everybody who had anything to do with it? ... an extraordinary confession of failure in the economic arena by this administration.
Barney Frank
It is very complicated. I certainly think accountability has its place, but it has to make sense and not set you up for failure.
Sharon Dye
Clearly, a failure to address our nation's agriculture labor crisis would cripple our state's No. 1 industry.
Larry Wooten
You can't have any successes unless you can accept failure.
George Cukor
This is a failure of the implementation of laws and a failure of policy.
Von Hernandez
Of all the needs we face, none is greater than our bridges. You can have a road failure; that's not catastrophic. A bridge failure is.
Gary Hoffman
I wouldn't call it a failure. We went in with very low expectations.
Paul Brinkley
We had 11 successes last week and one failure.
Glen Castlebury
Believe it or not, failure to include W-2s is another big one.
David R. Bergmann
I wanted to make a comment on the obsession with success and failure that we see a lot in America.
Cameron Crowe
Our feeds quit because of the equipment failure.
Scott Simons
It has been a failure because the big industrial polluters, led by the United States, have failed to clean up our act.
Dan Becker
Failure doesn't kill you. . . it increases your desire to make something happen.
Kevin Costner
I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.
Anne Baxter
Translation is the art of failure.
Umberto Eco
Every failure made me more confident. Because I wanted even more to achieve as revenge. To show that I could.
Roman Polanski
Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
Sir Winston Churchill
Win the Sun Belt, and that's a guaranteed ticket to a bowl game. And after the way we've performed so far, anything less than a bowl is a failure.
Dewhitt Betterson
I think that failure by your own standards is certainly a form of success.
Bonnie Hunt
For the supervisor to want a shopping center without an anchor means he is dooming that shopping center for failure.
Paul Camarda
The Democratic Party is like an addict. They're addicted to failure.
Paul Hackett
It was an internal machine failure.
Polly Bell
Nothing succeeds, they say, like success. And certainly nothing fails like failure.
Margaret Drabble
We have not had a single civilian casualty, ... It went very well, beyond our expectations. After all their boasting, it's a big failure for the Taliban.
Lutfullah Mashal
Evidence is there that a structural, mechanical or electrical failure of some kind led to the explosion.
Lee Kreindler
Failure to be independent and failure to be circumspect carries a serious threat of liability.
Charles Elson
It's very difficult in IT to understand the business impact of a fault or failure.
Chris Gahagan
There are no mistakes, save one: the failure to learn from a mistake.
Robert Fripp
Success, or failure, very often arrives on wings that seem mysterious to us.
Marcus Bach, Dr.
I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.
Tom Hopkins
The failure to spay and neuter pets — that's the biggest contributor to the pet population.
Brenda Miller
Each failure to sell will increase your chances for success at your next attempt.
Og Mandino
These kind of games really make us better. Success sometimes comes from failure.
Dave Dwyer
When one is a social failure, the reasons are as clear as day.
Arnold Lobel
What we have most to fear is failure of the heart.
Sonia Johnson
Technically a lot of damage has been done to the dollar but yesterday's failure to break through new levels has helped the dollar.
Kamal Sharma
Failure is not a crime, ... The crime is not trying.
Ron Dellums
It's how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success.
Charlotte Whitton
If Madrid don't win something again it will probably be the biggest failure in its history.
Jesus Gallego
You'll be more likely to succeed if failure isn't an option.
Gary Foreman
Success is 99 percent failure.
Soichiro Honda
If you have a failure in one place, it can affect the power delivery in many places.
Stephanie Moore
Without a way for the voters to check, we don't have any way to recover votes if there's a machine failure.
Marybeth Kuznik
Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.
Michael Korda
You can't say from those numbers that anything was a failure, but it's not an outrageous success.
John Harrington
But it marks, to some degree, a failure on our part to communicate the message.
Joe Garcia
You really can't say that something will make you or break you. If you get into that, you're setting your program up for failure.
Mark Mangino
That's why the failure rate is so high; they get impassioned and emotional about their idea.
Tom O'connell
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
Nighttime is one of the more crucial times -- if there was radio failure, how would anybody know?
Kevin Burns
Every failure is a step to success.
William Whewell
What do you call it when you take a city - the same city - for the third time? Success or failure?
James Lindsay
We didn't expect the meeting to completely fall and I don't see it going ahead as any kind of failure.
John Blake
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Truman Capote
Everyone is working to achieve this record and no one has discussed failure.
Jackie Mcquillan
If we don't succeed we run the risk of failure.
Dan Quayle
The failure to get a decisive vote in the German elections has left uncertainty.
Joe Francomano
My life has been nothing but a failure.
Claude Monet
The conference has been a failure. We expected it would establish a line of action for the future and now we feel frustrated.
Sergio Leitao
The failure wishes he could do things he could never do. He thinks little of what he can do.
Mark Caine
We would never do so, but if there are mistakes or failure of the cabinet, everything of course would be handled according to the basic law.
Ahmed Abdel Rahman
I don't want to put a deadline on it, because you never know, you set yourself up for failure. But I'm very optimistic.
John Godfrey
Women tend to have more diastolic heart failure.
Jo Parrish
The text is a failure for development and a victory for corporate globalization.
Walden Bello
When all is said and done, success without happiness is the worst kind of failure.
Louis Binstock
There is no failure. Only feedback.
Robert G. Allen
It's very frustrating, employees are very angry- and I don't blame them. I'd be having heart failure as well.
Corky Mattingly
DESTINY, n. A tyrant's authority for crime and fool's excuse for failure.
Ambrose Bierce
All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.
John Steinbeck
No one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend.
Groucho Marx
There is but one failure, and that is, not to be true to the very best one knows.
Canon Farrar
They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?
Fidel Castro
We are being asked to engage in a great social experiment, and the results of that experiment, if it is a failure, will be visited upon our children.
Ray Haynes
At this stage we have no clues as to what may have contributed to this failure. We will be taking the engine away for disassembly.
Alan Stray
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