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Trying to integrate oneself and ones family with a community like that is something that is always ultimately destined to failure.
Christopher Gist

The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.
Francis Picabia

What is failure except feebleness? And what is it to miss one's mark except to aim widely and weakly?
Ouida

Translation is the art of failure.
Umberto Eco

In the publishing business you have to learn to greet failure with the same handshake as you would success.
Eddie Bell

The intelligence failures with respect to Iraq were massive and have damaged our credibility around the world.
Carl Levin

Failure is success if we learn from it.
Malcolm Forbes

I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.
Oprah Winfrey

The avocation of assessing the failures of better men can be turned into a comfortable livelihood, providing you back it up with a PhD.
Nelson Algren

Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blossom in time, and bear fruit throughout eternity.
Frances Watkins Harper

There is no failure except in no longer trying.
Elbert Hubbard

The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements (as well as one's deepest failures) is a definite symptom of maturity.
Paul Tillich

We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.
Amos Bronson Alcott

Do not allow yourselves to be disheartened by any failure as long as you have done your best.
Mother Teresa

We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse
Rudyard Kipling

Only one thing makes a dream impossible: the fear of failure.
Paulo Coelho

For people in Brazil, failure in the World Cup was not an option. But we failed.
Ronaldinho

Never give up. Learning from failure is an essential part of the entrepreneur's experience
Rachel Elnaugh

We failed, but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing.
Robert E Lee

There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success.
Max Beerbohm

The chancellor's failure to give Britain's taxpayers value for money will be the terrible legacy of this government.
Oliver Letwin

Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.
Don Shula

Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives.
Edwin C Bliss

Success is ninety-nine percent failure.
Soichiro Honda

When I was a young man I observed than nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn’t want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work
George Bernard Shaw

Lack of will power has caused more failure than lack of intelligence or ability.
Flower A Newhouse

The politicians don't just want your money. They want your soul. They want you to
be worn down by taxes until you are dependent and helpless. When you subsidize poverty and failure, you get more of both.
James Dale Davidson

May every young scientist remember... and not fail to keep his eyes open for the possibility that an irritating failure of his apparatus to give consistent results may once or twice in a lifetime conceal an important discovery.
Patrick Blackett

Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach.
Roger Von Oech

A vice is a failure of desire
Gerald Stanley Lee

What we have seen is an effort to emulate the Blair era, but a failure to do so.
Sir Menzies Campbell

Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.
Rosalind Russell

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
Robert Schuller

About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure.
Tommy Lasorda

Both my marriages were failures! Number one departed, and number two stayed
Gustav Mahler

Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill

Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure.
Erik Erikson

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Thomas Edison

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
Dale Carnegie

I wasn't afraid to fail.
Something good always comes out of failure.
Anne Baxter

It's how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success.
Charlotte Whitton

Don't be afraid of failure; be afraid of petty success.
Maude Adams

When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.
Katherine Mansfield

No matter how vast, how total, the failure of man here on earth, the work of man will be resumed elsewhere. War leaders talk of resuming operations on this front and that, but man's front embraces the whole universe.
Henry Miller

Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.
Daniel Webster

If you want to win the battle then you better have the better tanks, they can make the difference between success and failure in combat.
Heinz Guderian

Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.
Jules Renard

Gordon Brown and his 'new' Cabinet cannot escape the last 10 years. Labour's failures are their failures too.
Sir Menzies Campbell

Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success, and in some ways it's better to have failure at the beginning of your career, or your life.
Michael Crawford

If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
Quentin Crisp



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