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The eyes are more exact witnesses than the ears.

Heraclitus | Failure

There are five things which no one is able to accomplish in this world: first, to cease growing old when he is growing old; second, to cease being sick; third, to cease dying; fourth, to deny dissolution when there is dissolution; fifth, to deny non-being.

Buddha | Failure

The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood | Failure

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.

Farrar | Failure

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

Wilde, Oscar | Failure

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

Foch, Ferdinand | Failure

Young players need freedom of expression to develop as creative players... they should be encouraged to try skills without fear of failure.

Arsene Wenger | Failure

You'll never convince me there is a hopeless situation or there is any finality in any success or any failure.

Carlos Ghosn | Failure

You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. This is done by making an affirmation which 'clicks.'

Florence Scovel Shinn | Failure

You shouldn't be afraid of failure - when something fails, you think, 'What did I learn from that experience? I can do better next time.' Then kill that project and move on to the next. Don't get disappointed.

Niklas Zennstrom | Failure

You must not demand the failure of your peers, because the more good things that are around in film, in television, in theater - why the better it is for all of us.

Jerome Lawrence | Failure

You must accept that you might fail then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you can be satisfied that you've tried. If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk.

Rosalynn Carter | Failure

You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.

Mary Pickford | Failure

You have to risk failure to succeed. The important thing is not to make one single mistake that will jeopardize the future.

An Wang | Failure

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.

Alexander Haig | Failure

You have to be able to accept failure to get better.

LeBron James | Failure

You gotta lose 'em some of the time. When you do, lose 'em right.

Casey Stengel | Failure

You get so afraid of failure and so afraid of losing and so afraid of not being the best that it's not a natural drive - it's born out of fear of failure. Which helps in Hollywood.

Gabrielle Union | Failure

You can't have any successes unless you can accept failure.

George Cukor | Failure

You can't be afraid of failure and you can't be afraid of success, because either one gets in the way of your work.

Dave Van Ronk | Failure

You cannot learn anything from success, you only learn from failure.

Jim Dale | Failure

You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.

Zig Ziglar | Failure

You can be discouraged by failure, or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes, make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success - on the far side of failure.

Thomas John Watson, Sr. | Failure

You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.

Johnny Cash | Failure

You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give.

E. O. Wilson | Failure

You always pass failure on your way to success.

Mickey Rooney | Failure

You accept failure as a possible outcome of some of the experiments. If you don't get failures, you're not pushing hard enough on the objectives.

John Poindexter | Failure

Y'know, the real reason why I was such a failure in the sense of being unable to make any sort of a living was because I was really not motivated. I had no motivation.

Paul Twitchell | Failure

Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.

Amelia Earhart | Failure

Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail their failure must be but a challenge to others.

Amelia Earhart | Failure

Without failure there is no sweetness in success. There's no understanding of it.

Glenn Beck | Failure

Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo.

Camille Paglia | Failure

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

With improvisation, I just do it. It might be a total failure but then you just throw the dice again.

Christian Marclay | Failure

With failure, you just try again.

Judd Nelson | Failure

With everything that is complex, we learn. If you don't learn, then it's an utter and abject failure. If you do learn, and you're able to apply that to the next situation, then you take away a measure of success.

Benjamin Carson | Failure

With engineering, I view this year's failure as next year's opportunity to try it again. Failures are not something to be avoided. You want to have them happen as quickly as you can so you can make progress rapidly.

Gordon Moore | Failure

Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.

Wilma Rudolph | Failure

Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?

Ernest Hemingway | Failure

Why do we capital-N Nerds love Mars so much? Because it's beautiful, it's tough, it's buried in our mythic, childhood memories. It's covered with human triumphs but also with sad stories of failure.

Greg Bear | Failure

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

J. K. Rowling | Failure

Who I am as a guitarist is defined by my failure to become Jimi Hendrix.

John Mayer | Failure

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 | Failure

Whether in success or in failure, I'm proud of every single movie I've ever directed.

Steven Spielberg | Failure

When you're fearless, you take more risks because you're less conscious of failure or what can go wrong.

Brett Ratner | Failure

When you experience a failure as a leader, don't hide it - talk about it. Your missed opportunity will encourage others to take risks.

Naveen Jain | Failure

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

George Bernard Shaw | Failure

When I was about 15... I made my first attempt as a leading lady, and was, of course, a complete failure.

Maude Adams | Failure

When I got Jacob's Latter, I was nervous because I felt I wasn't allowed to fail. I felt that they were waiting for one little failure and that would prove them right and I'd be,'out of there.'

Elizabeth Pena | Failure

When an action is once done, it is right or wrong for ever no accidental failure of its good or evil fruits can possibly alter that.

William Kingdon Clifford | Failure

What we've got here is a failure to communicate.

Donn Pearce | Failure

What we have most to fear is failure of the heart.

Sonia Johnson | Failure

What matters is this: Being fearless of failure arms you to break the rules. In doing so, you may change the culture and just possibly, for a moment, change life itself.

Malcolm Mclaren | Failure

What is more comforting to the terrorists around the world: the failure to pass the 9/11 legislation because we lacked 'a majority of the majority,' or putting aside partisan politics to enact tough new legislation with America's security foremost in mind?

Rahm Emanuel | Failure

We're born with success. It is only others who point out our failures, and what they attribute to us as failure.

Whoopi Goldberg | Failure

Well, the idea is that failure is an inevitable partner on the road to success and, if you're not willing to confront failure, you can never find out how good you are.

Peter Guber | Failure

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.

Richard Branson | Failure

Well, I think it's too early to call Fallujah a failure.

Charles Schumer | Failure

Well, I think first of all there was a failure to have real, clear information at our disposal. There was a real lack of situational awareness. We didn't have the capabilities on the ground to give us real-time, accurate assessments of the physical condition of the city.

Michael Chertoff | Failure

We now live in a world where the only thing to have is success, but failure is marvelous. It's fertiliser, it's like living fertiliser, because you're forced on yourself.

Rupert Everett | Failure

We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

Charles Kettering | Failure

We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes - understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success.

Arianna Huffington | Failure

We may be personally defeated, but our principles never!

William Lloyd Garrison | Failure

We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Samuel Smiles | Failure

We know there is no such thing as freedom without the risk of failure.

Rick Perry | Failure

We judged that a sudden, disorderly failure of Bear would have brought with it unpredictable but severe consequences for the functioning of the broader financial system and the broader economy, with lower equity prices, further downward pressure on home values, and less access to credit for companies and households.

Timothy Geithner | Failure

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

Rudyard Kipling | Failure

We have actually experienced in recent months a dramatic demonstration of an unprecedented intelligence failure, perhaps the most significant intelligence failure in the history of the United States.

Zbigniew Brzezinski | Failure

We go there with confidence, but we know there is a very fine line between success and failure in this game.

Alan Shearer | Failure

We feel a lot of pressure about looking silly or appearing weak, whatever that means, or being a failure. You have to keep in your head: what's the worst that can happen?

Michael Fassbender | Failure

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

Robert E. Lee | Failure

We do not realise that we are children of eternity. If we did, then success would be no success, and failure would be no failure to us.

Joseph Barber Lightfoot | Failure

We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve.

John B. S. Haldane | Failure

We decided to try in vitro, because both Peter and I felt we couldn't handle another failure. When I miscarried after that, we had to come to terms with the possibility that this wasn't meant to be.

Christie Brinkley | Failure

We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts.

Gary Player | Failure

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

Amos Bronson Alcott | Failure

We can't have a failure in Iraq, but we also can't be there for the next 10 years because if we are, it's going to become, I think, a failure in and of itself.

Dennis Ross | Failure

We are equally glad and surprised at Winston's return to office. It shows that he was built for success that he should have declined to withdraw and sulk over a superficial failure.

Shane Leslie | Failure

We all struggle with our failure to communicate and our failure to reach beyond fear to love people.

Mira Sorvino | Failure

Washington, D.C. is what is broken, not the immigration policies. We have good laws. We have people suffer every day because of government's failure to enforce the law and be respectful to the process we have. We have a pathway to citizenship already in place.

Russell Pearce | Failure

War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.

Bill Moyers | Failure

War remains the decisive human failure.

John Kenneth Galbraith | Failure

War is something Arafat sends others to do for him. That is, the poor souls who believe in him. This pompous incompetent caused the failure of the Camp David negotiations, Clinton's mediation.

Oriana Fallaci | Failure

War is failure of diplomacy.

John Dingell | Failure

Unwillingness to risk failure is always there, but it gets harder when you feel you have more to lose.

Demi Moore | Failure

Unless we practice conservation, those who come after us will have to pay the price of misery, degradation, and failure for the progress and prosperity of our day.

Gifford Pinchot | 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?

Daisaku Ikeda | Failure

Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease, where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function, the end result of which is kidney failure.

Xavier Becerra | Failure

Translation is the art of failure.

Umberto Eco | Failure

Tragedy in life normally comes with betrayal and compromise, and trading on your integrity and not having dignity in life. That's really where failure comes.

Tom Cochrane | Failure

To me, all war is failure for humanity, though it often is a bounty for commerce.

Mark Edwards | Failure

To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the most difficult of all, and so important, withal, that nations have perished from their failure to achieve it.

Irving Babbitt | Failure

To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.

Denis Waitley | Failure

To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.

James Allen | Failure

To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.

James Lane Allen | Failure

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

Benjamin Disraeli | Failure

Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.

Gary Ryan Blair | Failure

This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

Michael Korda | Failure

This dullness of vision regarding the importance of the general welfare to the individual is the measure of the failure of our schools and churches to teach the spiritual significance of genuine democracy.

Henry A. Wallace | Failure

This attempt to isolate cell constituents might have been a failure if they had been destroyed by the relative brutality of the technique employed. But this did not happen.

Albert Claude | Failure

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

Napoleon Hill | Failure