“If we don't succeed we run the risk of failure.”
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“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.”
“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?”
“I don't want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about.”
“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.”
“I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.”
“For families across the UK who are income-poor, but more than that, whose lives are blighted by worklessness, educational failure, family breakdown, problem debt and poor health, as well as other problems, giving them an extra pound - say through increased benefits - will not address the reason they find themselves in difficulty in the first place.”
“Not failure, but low aim is sin.”
“Failure is a part of success.”
“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.”
“Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure.”
“A minute's success pays the failure of years.”
“There's no right or wrong, success or failure.”
“That sense of failure, I don't know where people put it who don't write songs and aren't able to emote physically. It must go somewhere.”
“In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.”
“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.”
“About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure.”
“It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.”
“Success and failure are both part of life. Both are not permanent.”
“I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I have a tendency to sabotage relationships I have a tendency to sabotage everything. Fear of success, fear of failure, fear of being afraid. Useless, good-for-nothing thoughts.”
“Failure is impossible.”