c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
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
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.
— E. O. Wilson
I don't want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about.
— Emma Watson
Inability to make decisions is one of the principal reasons executives fail. Deficiency in decision-making ranks much higher than lack of specific knowledge or technical know-how as an indicator of leadership failure.
— John C. Maxwell
Success and failure are both part of life. Both are not permanent.
— Shah Rukh Khan
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
Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.
— Chanakya
In a crowded marketplace, fitting in is a failure. In a busy marketplace, not standing out is the same as being invisible.
— Seth Godin
I would replace most foreign aid with a tax credit for businesses to invest. I think U.S. bureaucrats giving foreign bureaucrats money is a guaranteed failure. And we've had about 50 years' experience at failing with foreign aid.
— Newt Gingrich
It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Lead yourself whenever your boss' leadership deteriorates. When your boss doesn't praise what you do, praise yourself. When your boss doesn't make you big, make yourself big. Remember, if you have done your best, failure does not count.
— Mario Teguh
I fell off my pink cloud with a thud.
— Elizabeth Taylor
If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.
— Zig Ziglar
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
— Paul Tillich
All wars signify the failure of conflict resolution mechanisms, and they need post-war rebuilding of faith, trust and confidence.
— A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Successful people have a bigger fear of failure than people who've never done anything because if you haven't been successful, then you don't know how it feels to lose it all. You don't have that fear. So why do you think people get stuck in those boxes? It's that fear of going back down.
— Jay-Z
Success isn't permanent and failure isn't fatal.
— Mike Ditka
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
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
Failure is not our only punishment for laziness there is also the success of others. 
— Jules Renard
Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.
— Florence Scovel Shinn
Working hard to fulfill a dream or instinct and learning over time it doesn't work, doesn't mean a career is over and a reputation killed. When a reputation is killed, it's when failure comes as a result of loss of integrity or judgement... breaking of laws.
— Bob Iger
Every stumble is not a fall, and every fall does not mean failure.
— Oprah Winfrey
If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.
— Robert H. Schuller
The entrepreneurial life is one of challenge, work, dedication, perseverance, exhilaration, agony, accomplishment, failure, sacrifice, control, powerlessness... but ultimately, extraordinary satisfaction.
— David S. Rose
If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure.
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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
I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.
— George Burns
It's a European Union of economic failure, of mass unemployment and of low growth.
— Nigel Farage
Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.
— J. K. Rowling
Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
— Thomas A. Edison
Ultimately there is no such thing as failure. There are lessons learned in different ways.
— Twyla Tharp
It's not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.
— Jimmy Carter
Success comes when people act together failure tends to happen alone. 
— Deepak Chopra
To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.
— Denis Waitley
Remember that failure is an event, not a person.
— Zig Ziglar
Engineering is achieving function while avoiding failure.
— Henry Petroski
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
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
I felt like a failure, like somehow my self-worth was tied to my ability to procreate. I didn't feel like I could talk about it. I did not want other people's pity, so I mostly kept my story and my feelings to myself.
— Virginia Williams
Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.
— Napoleon Hill
Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.
— Orison Swett Marden
Testing leads to failure, and failure leads to understanding.
— Burt Rutan
Treat failure as a lesson on how not to approach achieving a goal, and then use that learning to improve your chances of success when you try again. Failure is only the end if you decide to stop.
— Richard Branson
We failed, but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing.
— Robert E. Lee
Since the global financial crisis and recession of 2007-2009, criticism of the economics profession has intensified. The failure of all but a few professional economists to forecast the episode - the aftereffects of which still linger - has led many to question whether the economics profession contributes anything significant to society.
— Robert J. Shiller
Failure is never fatal. But failure to change can and might be.
— John Wooden
Man is not made for defeat.
— Ernest Hemingway
Don't be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.
— Lily Tomlin
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
Failure is a part of success.
— Hank Aaron
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
— Albert Einstein
Indecision and delays are the parents of failure.
— George Canning
Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
— Edsger Dijkstra
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
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
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
In our business, things look like a failure until they're not. It's pretty binary transitions.
— Satya Nadella
The story of Detroit's bankruptcy was simple enough: Allow capitalism to grow the city, campaign against income inequality, tax the job creators until they flee, increase government spending in order to boost employment, promise generous pension plans to keep people voting for failure. Rinse, wash and repeat.
— Ben Shapiro
If we don't succeed we run the risk of failure.
— Dan Quayle
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.
— William James
The very nature of finance is that it cannot be profitable unless it is significantly leveraged... and as long as there is debt, there can be failure and contagion.
— Alan Greenspan
I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.
— J. Paul Getty
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
Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.
— Louis E. Boone
Fear of failure, it's the greatest motivational tool. It drives me and drives me and drives me.
— Jerry West
Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure.
— Sylvester Stallone
All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
Life is bigger than cinema. Cinema is just a part of life, so I never take success or failure seriously.
— Pawan Kalyan
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
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
Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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
Success represents the 1% of your work which results from the 99% that is called failure.
— Soichiro Honda
I've had a lot of success; I've had failures, so I learn from the failure.
— Gordon Ramsay
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
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
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
No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma - but we make out of them just what suits our purposes.
— Alfred Adler
The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed.
— Nigel Farage
Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?
— Ernest Hemingway
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
Jobs for every American is doomed to failure because of modern automation and production. We ought to recognize it and create an income-maintenance system so every single American has the dignity and the wherewithal for shelter, basic food, and medical care. I'm talking about welfare for all. Without it, you're going to have warfare for all.
— Jerry Brown
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
Failure is an enigma. You worry about it, and it teaches you something.
— James Dyson
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
Intemperance and intolerance serve no one, and hatred guarantees failure.
— Edward Brooke
There is a huge difference between failing and failure. Failing is trying something that you learn doesn't work. Failure is throwing in the towel and giving up. True success comes from failing repeatedly and as quickly as possible, before your cash or your willpower runs out.
— Jay Samit
If your goal is to lose 10 pounds, you may wake up each day with failure in mind because the goal is hard to reach, and you are progressing only by small amounts. It takes up all your willpower. I recommend that instead of a goal, you have a system.
— Scott Adams
If you aren't learning, you are regressing, because more growth comes from failure than from success.
— Shahid Khan
Delivering a successful presentation could mean landing a major new contract, better prices for your services, or getting the funding you need. Failure can mean lost customers and a business that never gets off the ground.
— Lewis Howes
The only person who needs to know about failure is yourself.
— John Connolly
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
My life has been nothing but a failure.
— Claude Monet
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
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
Even as far back as when I started acting at 14, I know I've never considered failure.
— Jennifer Lawrence
He who refuses to stoop, who cannot be bribed by the promise of success or the fear of failure - who walks the highway of the right, and in disaster stands erect, is the only victor.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure.
— Tommy Lasorda
Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
— Oscar Wilde
Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.
— Rick Pitino
Failure isn't an option. I've erased the word 'fear' from my vocabulary, and I think when you erase fear, you can't fail.
— Alicia Keys
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
Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.
— Charlie Chaplin
If you try to do your best there is no failure.
— Mike Farrell
Enjoy failure and learn from it. You can never learn from success.
— James Dyson
Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all fear is the ego's fear of death, of annihilation. To the ego, death is always just around the corner. In this mind-identified state, fear of death affects every aspect of your life.
— Eckhart Tolle
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
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
If I were not African, I wonder whether it would be clear to me that Africa is a place where the people do not need limp gifts of fish but sturdy fishing rods and fair access to the pond. I wonder whether I would realize that while African nations have a failure of leadership, they also have dynamic people with agency and voices.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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
The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I, therefore, intend to oppose the effort to increase America's debt.
— Barack Obama
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
There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.
— Ann Landers
You gotta lose 'em some of the time. When you do, lose 'em right.
— Casey Stengel
Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.
— Edwin Markham
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
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
You make mistakes. Mistakes don't make you.
— Maxwell Maltz
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
If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
— Quentin Crisp
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
Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.
— Mike Murdock
The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures.
— Humphry Davy
Do not let your ambitions become a sanctuary for your failures.
— Bryant H. McGill
At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings.
— Hector Berlioz
I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.
— Paulo Coelho
Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable.
— Joe Biden
Successful people have a bigger fear of failure than people who've never done anything because if you haven't been successful, then you don't know how it feels to lose it all.
— Jay-Z
In tennis, it is not the opponent you fear, it is the failure itself, knowing how near you were but just out of reach.
— Andy Murray
At the end of the day I have always seen the end of my relationships as a personal failure. There is nothing ever pretty in saying goodbye.
— Elisabetta Canalis
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
I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.
— A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
— Bill Cosby
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
Where do we enroll in Life 101? Where are the classes dealing with the loss of a job, the death of a loved one, the failure of a relationship? Unfortunately, those lessons are mostly learned through trial by fire and the school of hard knocks.
— Les Brown
Not failure, but low aim, is crime.
— James Russell Lowell
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
Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.
— Graham Greene
I was taught that to create anything you had to believe in failure, simply because you had to be prepared to go through an idea without any fear. Failure, you learned, as I did in art school, to be a wonderful thing. It allowed you to get up in the morning and take the pillow off your head.
— Malcolm Mclaren
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
It does not matter what you know about anything if you cannot communicate to your people. In that event, you are not even a failure. You're just not there.
— Saul Alinsky
I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.
— George Burns
Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. 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
Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.
— Napoleon Hill
I think you have to try and fail, because failure gets you closer to what you're good at.
— Louis C. K.
With improvisation, I just do it. It might be a total failure but then you just throw the dice again.
— Christian Marclay
Every company needs to have a skunkworks, to try things that have a high probability of failing. You try to minimize failure, but at the same time, if you're not willing to try things that are inherently risky, you're not going to make progress.
— Nolan Bushnell
If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success.
— James Cameron
If you're so afraid of failure, you will never succeed. You have to take chances.
— Mario Andretti
We all have anxiety about things. We all have little insecurities, but eventually you have to face your fears if you want to be successful, and everybody has some fear of failure.
— Nick Saban
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
— Robert Browning
Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.
— Ambrose Bierce
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
However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.
— Susan Sontag
Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.
— Don Shula
Success is 99 percent failure.
— Soichiro Honda
Life is so fresh, life is every day so new if we are fighting, only for the best. Sometimes I think the only real satisfaction in life is failure, failure in your endeavor to do your best.
— Maude Adams
Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
— Roger Babson
I think somehow you need to get to a certain point in your life where the notion of failure is absurd.
— Jeff Tweedy
American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society.
— Thomas Babington Macaulay
A love of nature is a consolation against failure.
— Berthe Morisot
Not failure, but low aim is sin.
— Benjamin E. Mays
There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.
— John Keats
Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure.
— Douglas Coupland
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
My dad encouraged us to fail. Growing up, he would ask us what we failed at that week. If we didn't have something, he would be disappointed. It changed my mindset at an early age that failure is not the outcome, failure is not trying. Don't be afraid to fail.
— Sara Blakely
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 vast majority of large scale change efforts fail. Which means that the probability that you have actually experienced a failure, and your people know that and are pessimistic, therefore, about trying something again, is very high.
— John P. Kotter
I'm living life as best I can - but I'm not exempt from failure and making bad choices.
— LeAnn Rimes
Success unshared is failure.
— John Paul DeJoria
I was afraid of being a failure, of not having the best time or of being chicken. But every year I get older I think, What was I fearing last year?' You forget. And then you move on.
— Sandra Bullock
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
For me, it's always a failure of the imagination. I have that anxiety that time is passing, that everything is ultimately fleeting and impermanent. I better take advantage of every single moment.
— Jason Silva
The more times I was turned down, the more I believed I was getting closer to making it. A lot of people in Korea say that failure is the mother of success, so I believed that more times I failed, the more likely I was to succeed.
— Rain
Honesty is about the scars. It's about the blemishes. But it's more than just bragging about failure, which could be a form of ego. It's about truly helping people.
— James Altucher
Good fiction is about asserting the beauties of the world, inventing a new, positive thing. Where am I going to get that? And it should be original; it should not be cliched. So the way I looked at history was not to accuse it of failure.
— Orhan Pamuk
It's very important to learn quick lessons from your failures, very important to recognize symptoms of failure pretty early, and it is very, very important to not to be attached too much to the idea - you have to know when to give up an idea.
— N. R. Narayana Murthy
Performers should really go to the best schools, like Lady Gaga, you know, she went to NYU and had great teachers... It's best to really study your technique as much as you possibly can so you can have a long career instead of a quick one that's a failure.
— Tony Bennett
The woman is a gentle, loving bond who encourages, consoles, builds, reconciles, and makes all things new and vibrant. The woman is strength in time of suffering, courageous in failure, intuitive in time of danger. A woman is ingenuous when all fails, resourceful in times of want, and a true helpmate for man.
— Mother Angelica
I was very afraid of failure because if you fail at something you love, then you ruin what you love.
— Kimbal Musk
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
One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
— John W. Gardner
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
The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not causes. Nothing more than the patching up of those attacked and the burying of those who are slain, without a thought being given to the real strong hold.
— Edward Bach
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
The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible; that is, that one is male and the other female.
— Anna Quindlen
Who I am as a guitarist is defined by my failure to become Jimi Hendrix.
— John Mayer
Whether in success or in failure, I'm proud of every single movie I've ever directed.
— Steven Spielberg
If we say we trust in Him, but in reality do not, then God, taking us at our word, lets us see that we do not really confide in Him; and hence failure arises.
— George Muller
By the time I was a young man, I lived with two deep struggles: I longed to become a cricketer, and I performed miserably in school. Cricket and tennis were all that I lived for. In India, this was a formula for failure.
— Ravi Zacharias
Failure. It doesn't exist. 'Failure' is just what happens when we lose perspective.
— Donna Brazile
The study of literature threatens to become a kind of paleontology of failure, and criticism a supercilious psychoanalysis of authors.
— John Updike
I was taught you don't tell your secrets to strangers - certainly not secrets that expose error, weakness, failure. My generation, like its predecessors, was taught that since our achievements received little notice or credit from white America, we were not to discuss our faults, lapses, or uncertainties in public.
— Margo Jefferson
When you say 'failure,' that seems really dramatic, but a lot of failure is just really depressing and mundane. I remember the first time I ever played a concert in Italy. I played a venue that held 900 people, and I think five people showed up. It wasn't a big, 'John Carter of Mars' type failure. It wasn't dramatic; it was just depressing.
— Moby
I know it wouldn't seem like I've had a lot of failure in my career, but there are things that I regard as failures, when I look at certain performances and go, 'That's not good enough.'
— Daniel Radcliffe
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
A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.
— Gertrude Stein
I feel rejecting rejection is one of the most crucial steps in getting past failure.
— John Rampton
Remember what Susan B. Anthony said? 'Failure is impossible.' Failure is possible if women don't vote.
— Madeleine M. Kunin
Sociologists well understand that chaos at home causes violent behavior, educational failure and social alienation among children. Yet, many of us in America stay far, far away from this topic. That in itself is a national scandal. Bad parenting is gravely harming this nation.
— Bill O'Reilly
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
Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think.
— Marshall McLuhan
A lesson learned, both in the SEAL teams and as an entrepreneur, is that failure is sometimes a critical component of success.
— Brandon Webb
Aging is mostly the failure to repair.
— Gregory Benford
Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.
— Arnold Schwarzenegger
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
Civilization is a failure. We need to think what we can do together in love and peace.
— Serj Tankian
As an outside; don't worry about failure, because failure will take care of itself. Focus on success.
— Henry Cavill
As kids we're not taught how to deal with success; we're taught how to deal with failure. If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. If at first you succeed, then what?
— Charlie Sheen
Philanthropic colonization is a failure. National colonization will succeed.
— Theodor Herzl
Cheerfully fessing up to our failures turns crazy mind off, humility and compassion on. I learned this in a karate dojo that had a strange tradition. Everyone there loved recounting failure stories, and after an evening of smacking one another, we'd sit and have a beer while the students swapped tales of martial arts disaster.
— Martha Beck
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
The only failure is not to try.
— George Clooney
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
In fiction workshops, we tend to focus on matters of verisimilitude largely because such issues are so much easier to talk about than the failure of imagination.
— Tim O'Brien
A traveller must buy his own experience, and success or failure depends mainly on personal idiosyncrasies.
— Isabella Bird
Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.
— Frederick W. Smith
Believe it or not, Christianity is not about good people getting better. If anything, it is good news for bad people coping with their failure to be good.
— Tullian Tchividjian
When we talk about 9/11 and 26/11 - which is the shorthand for the Mumbai attacks in 2008 - we're talking about the most successful terrorist attacks in history. When you start trying to study the most successful event of its kind, it actually doesn't make for great fiction because there isn't the kind of failure in it that fiction thrives on.
— Karan Mahajan
Sloth is the failure to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done - like the kamikaze pilot who flew seventeen missions.
— John Ortberg
We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.
— Matthew McConaughey
My biggest failure is I have too many to talk about.
— Dean Kamen
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
One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.
— Thomas Sowell
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
Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.
— Napoleon Hill
Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success.
— Og Mandino
If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure.
— Douglas Coupland
Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it.
— Mia Hamm
You don't go into anything contemplating failure, because if you did, you wouldn't make it.
— Simon Cowell
To err is human, but it feels divine.
— Mae West
The only risk of failure is promotion.
— Scott Adams
The threat posed by Bank of America isn't just financial - it's a full-blown assault on the American dream. Where's the incentive to play fair and do well, when what we see rewarded at the highest levels of society is failure, stupidity, incompetence and meanness? If this is what winning in our system looks like, who doesn't want to be a loser?
— Matt Taibbi
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
Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
— Thomas Sowell
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
There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
— George Eliot
The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
— Laurence J. Peter
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
Failure doesn't exist. It's only a change of direction.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
There is no such thing as disappointment for those who continue to cherish the selflessness of which is born the noblest inner self. There is no such thing as failure for those who invest in the potentialities of the Ideal of the Soul.
— Ameen Rihani
Failure is success if we learn from it.
— Malcolm Forbes
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
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
The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.
— Colin R. Davis
Education is the only billion dollar industry that tolerates abject failure.
— Geoffrey Canada
I don't look at football as a violent, barbaric sport. It's a very spiritual sport, especially for someone facing the challenges during a game: the fear of failure, the fear of getting too big an ego, of making a mistake and everybody criticizing you.
— Troy Polamalu
While I've had plenty of ups and downs, dealt with my share of failure, and struggled through emotionally difficult periods, I'm fundamentally an optimist.
— Brad Feld
An open-minded and diverse population that readily shares information, encourages experimentation, accepts failure and dispenses with formality and hierarchy is what makes Silicon Valley the successful hub that it is.
— Vivek Wadhwa
Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.
— Montgomery Clift
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
'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
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
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
A life which does not go into action is a failure.
— Arnold J. Toynbee
Don't be afraid of failure be afraid of petty success. 
— Maude Adams
Failure is always an option.
— Adam Savage
We're born with success. It is only others who point out our failures, and what they attribute to us as failure.
— Whoopi Goldberg
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
You look at any culture, and prohibition has invariably been an unmitigated failure. It is just idiotic to criminalise any substance, I think.
— Rhys Ifans
The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.
— Elbert Hubbard
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
How one handles success or failure is determined by their early childhood.
— Harold Ramis
Feeling is the consciousness of the resulting conditions - of success, failure, equilibrium, compromise or balance, in this continuous rivalry of ideas.
— James Mark Baldwin
The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.
— Paddy Ashdown
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
The lessons I learned from my mother and her friends have guided me through death, birth, loss, love, failure, and achievement, on to a Fulbright scholarship and Harvard Business School. They taught me to believe that anything was possible. They have proven to be the strongest family values I could ever have imagined.
— Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
Comedy was my sport. It taught me how to roll with the punches. Failure is the exact same as success when it comes to comedy because it just keeps coming. It never stops.
— Emma Stone
Be greedy for social change, and your life will be endlessly enriched. The only failure lies in not trying, or giving up.
— Ann Cotton
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
There are no mistakes, save one: the failure to learn from a mistake.
— Robert Fripp
I'm quite detached from failure and success. Once a shooting is done, I kind of close that chapter in my life.
— Ranbir Kapoor
When you accept that failure is a good thing, it can actually be a huge propeller toward success.
— Whitney Wolfe
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
Failure doesn't kill you... it increases your desire to make something happen.
— Kevin Costner
We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
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
The will to persevere is often the difference between failure and success.
— David Sarnoff
In the different voice of women lies the truth of an ethic of care, the tie between relationship and responsibility, and the origins of aggression in the failure of connection.
— Carol Gilligan
It is a changing world because of the newcomers who keep arriving and who leave us behind. Trying to keep pace with them is doomed to inglorious failure, especially as the pace has quickened so much.
— Hans Jonas
My story as an artist has been about trial and error. It's been about artist development, character building, struggle, happiness and failure, family, and music.
— Anderson Paak
The wisest of the wise may err.
— Aeschylus
Success is never final, but failure can be.
— Bill Parcells
It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.
— Charles Kettering
The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.
— Joyce Brothers
Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.
— Michael Korda
There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
— Michel de Montaigne
We may be personally defeated, but our principles never!
— William Lloyd Garrison
Before you can win a game, you have to not lose it.
— Chuck Noll
You always pass failure on your way to success.
— Mickey Rooney
Failure is a word that I simply don't accept.
— John H. Johnson
The way most people fail is in not keeping up the heart.
— Lady Gregory
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
Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure.
— Elbert Hubbard
Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.
— George Bernard Shaw
It's how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success.
— Charlotte Whitton
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
Failure too is a form of death.
— Graham Greene
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
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
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
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
Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period.
— Felicity Kendal
Fear comes in two packages fear of failure, and sometimes, fear of success.
— Tom Kite
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
The time I had waited probably made the difference between success and failure.
— Anna Neagle
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
Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure.
— Sidney Hook
The only real failure in life is one not learned from.
— Anthony J. D'Angelo
Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature.
— Phyllis Schlafly
Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive.
— Scott Adams
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
No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.
— Napoleon Hill
Without failure there is no sweetness in success. There's no understanding of it.
— Glenn Beck
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 don't understand a way to work other than bold-facedly running towards failure.
— Cate Blanchett