“I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.”
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“What we've got here is a failure to communicate.”
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“I went to a motivational training course once, a course of self-discovery, and I found out after a week that my fear - it was not a fear of not being accepted - was a very violent fear of failure.”
“Nothing fails like failure.”
“A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.”
“I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.”
“I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.”
“Failure is a word unknown to me.”
“Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.”
“There are no mistakes, save one: the failure to learn from a mistake.”
“Who I am as a guitarist is defined by my failure to become Jimi Hendrix.”
“It's not a very high failure rate if you choose people that you really like the sound of.”
“Keep your head up in failure, and your head down in success.”
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“Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.”
“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.”
“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.”
“The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.”
“Well, I think that there's a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you're likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line.”
“Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.”
“My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.”
“Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.”
“Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit.”
“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.”
“It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.”