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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
Every failure is a step to success.
William Whewell
I mean, I love L.A. - I love living here. But I wish that we could make things without the need to hit a home run every single time. It's a unique thing to Hollywood that if you don't do that every time, then you're considered a failure. But it's like, 'Well, are you making movies to be successful? Or are you making movies to learn something?'
Kristen Stewart
My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.
Harry S. Truman
I think somehow you need to get to a certain point in your life where the notion of failure is absurd.
Jeff Tweedy
Something is wanting, and something must be done, or we shall be involved in all the horror of failure, and civil war without a prospect of its termination.
Henry Knox
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
Winston Churchill
I grew up playing sports. There is a clear line between success and failure.
Tiki Barber
The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures.
Sir Humphrey Davy
Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
Edsger Dijkstra
I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.
Mason Cooley
Failure is success if we learn from it.
Malcolm Forbes
With the NDAA, his failure to close Guantanamo Bay and the ramping use of drones, President Obama looks suspiciously like President Bush, a man on a quest for American Empire.
Justin Sane
Failure is an enigma. You worry about it, and it teaches you something.
James Dyson
It is hard as an American to support the failure of American military operations in Iraq. Such failure will bring with it the death and wounding of many American service members, and many more Iraqis.
Scott Ritter
While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure.
Bryant H. McGill
Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
Samuel Beckett
The only people who never fail are those who never try.
Ilka Chase
A Failure in this Duty did once involve our Nation in all the Horrors of Rebellion and Civil War.
Charles Inglis