“It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.”
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“I've tried to handle winning well, so that maybe we'll win again, but I've also tried to handle failure well. If those serve as good examples for teachers and kids, then I hope that would be a contribution I have made to sport. Not just basketball, but to sport.”
“I may be a successful football player, but I feel like such a failure.”
“If you get into a Broadway show and it doesn't work, you're a failure. And if it does work, you may be stuck for who knows how long. It just doesn't sound great to me!”
“I realized that I was afraid to really, really try something, 100%, because I had never reached true failure.”
“Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man.”
“I will not be discouraged by failure I will not be elated by success.”
“At first I wasn't sure that I had the talent, but I did know I had a fear of failure, and that fear compelled me to fight off anything that might abet it.”
“The mere thought of divorce terrified me. To me, divorce symbolized failure.”
“It's probably foolish to expect relationships to go on forever and to say that because something only lasts 10 years, it's a failure.”
“If you've gone into a marriage and you haven't been clear about how you're going to handle money, how you want to raise kids, who is going to work or stay home or what have you, then you've set yourself up for failure.”
“You can't have any successes unless you can accept failure.”
“Failure doesn't kill you... it increases your desire to make something happen.”
“It's a European Union of economic failure, of mass unemployment and of low growth.”
“The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed.”
“Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.”
“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.”
“Hollywood... a city I was to come back to time and again, in sickness and in health, in success and in failure, with anticipation and with dread.”
“I've had a lot of success I've had failures, so I learn from the failure.”
“The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.”
“There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.”
“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.”
“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.”
“If you have a level of expectation in your life that you have to be a quote-unquote star, whatever that means, you might be setting yourself up for failure.”