We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.
There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.
Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.
Honesty is the fastest way to prevent a mistake from turning into a failure.
If you're afraid to fail, then you're probably going to fail.
I'd rather try and fail than not try at all, as they say.
The mere thought of divorce terrified me. To me, divorce symbolized failure.
Success is a journey, not a destination.
I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.
Children, who play life, discern its true law and relations more clearly than men, who fail to live it worthily, but who think that they are wiser by experience, that is, by 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 have always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.
Of course, Third World leaders love you. By ascribing third world ills to First World sins, you absolve them of blame for their countries' failure to advance.
Success doesn't come to you; you go to it.
I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.
Failure's a natural part of life.
If Liberia has failed, then, it is no evidence of the failure of the Negro in government. It is merely evidence of the failure of slavery.
Most people think of success and failure as opposites, but they both are products of the same process.
And obviously, with hindsight now, now knowing what went on in the company, it would have been absolutely appropriate back then for us to have the chief executive of the company, most senior person in the United Kingdom, come and answer for the policy they were pursuing. And we ducked that, and frankly that's a failure of Parliament.
Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more of their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination of people not to live without it.
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