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There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.
– John Keats
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There is no such thing as darkness only a failure to see.
– Malcolm Muggeridge
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There is no middle ground in Hollywood you're a failure or you're a success. That mentality is wild.
– Javier Bardem
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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.
– William James
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There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible.
– Elliot Richardson
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There comes a point in your moviegoing life where you look at the screen and then you look at the world and you ask, 'What is going on?' You want the movies to show you the chaos and mess and risk and failure that are normal for a lot of us. Generally, the movies hide all of that.
– Wesley Morris
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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
– Michel de Montaigne
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There are only really a few stories to tell in the end, and betrayal and the failure of love is one of those good stories to tell.
– Sean Lennon
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Their lives have been largely defined by failure and you would think the prospect of marriage, which is supposed to be bountiful and hopeful, it's just really another kind of tangential thing in his life.
– Thomas Haden Church
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The very reasons sometimes that you make a film are the reasons for its failure.
– Sydney Pollack
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The vast majority of large scale change efforts fail. Which means that the probability that you have actually experienced a failure, and your people know that and are pessimistic, therefore, about trying something again, is very high.
– John P. Kotter
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The traditional religious right's failure to restore public-school prayer or pass an antiabortion constitutional amendment has likely helped fuel the spread of the more extreme dominionist school.
– Jon Meacham
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The time I had waited probably made the difference between success and failure.
– Anna Neagle
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The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape.
– Alice James
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The success and the failure are not my concern, but His.
– Joseph Barber Lightfoot
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The Soviet Union did not achieve victory over the West, so was my information inadequate to help them to victory, or did it play no particular role in their failure to achieve victory?
– Aldrich Ames
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The sentiments in Hawaii about Washington's failure of leadership are no different than the rest of the country.
– Ed Case
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The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.
– Colin R. Davis
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The reason was the failure of both Japan and China to understand each other and the inability of America and the European powers to sympathize, without prejudice, with the peoples of East Asia.
– Hideki Tojo
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The pressures are intense, because the rewards for success and the penalty for failure are more and more.
– Alan Hansen
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The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause.
– Gustav Mahler
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The only reason my work seems to be eclectic up to a certain period is because I was a failure as an actor.
– Hugh Grant
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The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan.
– Alan Price
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The more control you have over your life, the more responsible you feel for your own success - or failure.
– Arthur C. Brooks
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The moral turpitude of the boys of today appears to center in their failure to concentrate on any particular objective long enough to obtain their maximum results.
– Major Taylor
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The mere thought of divorce terrified me. To me, divorce symbolized failure.
– Annette Funicello
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The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not causes. Nothing more than the patching up of those attacked and the burying of those who are slain, without a thought being given to the real strong hold.
– Edward Bach
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The key to accepting responsibility for your life is to accept the fact that your choices, every one of them, are leading you inexorably to either success or failure, however you define those terms.
– Neal Boortz
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The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen.
– P. J. O'Rourke
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The hippy movement was a failure.
– Joe Strummer
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The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater the secret failure.
– Ben Okri
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The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
– Lyndon B. Johnson
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The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.
– Paddy Ashdown
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The great thing about baseball is the causality is easy to determine and it always falls on the shoulders of one person. So there is absolute responsibility. That's why baseball is psychologically the cruelest sport and why it really requires psychological resources to play baseball - because you have to learn to live with failure.
– Michael Mandelbaum
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The fear of failure is so great, it is no wonder that the desire to do right by one's children has led to a whole library of books offering advice on how to raise them.
– Bruno Bettelheim
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The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement.
– Anna Garlin Spencer
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The failure of world leaders to act on the critical issue of global warming is often blamed on economic considerations.
– David Suzuki
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The failure of women to have reached positions of leadership has been due in large part to social and professional discrimination.
– Rosalyn S. Yalow
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The failure of the White House and Congress to seriously address the nation's fiscal situation is certain to broaden the belief among many voters that the U.S. political system is broken.
– Ron Fournier
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The failure of the United Nations - My failure is maybe, in retrospective, that I was not enough aggressive with the members of the Security Council.
– Boutros Boutros-Ghali
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The failure of the Russian Socialist Republic will be the defeat of the proletariat of the whole world.
– Karl Liebknecht
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The failure of the system to deal quickly was attributable to Nixon's lying, stonewalling and refusal to come clean. So it took 26 months for the final truth to be known.
– Bob Woodward
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The failure of The Cable Guy impacted my career. I had to start writing and acting again.
– Ben Stiller
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The failure of national economic policy is costing us more than jobs it has begun to weaken that uniquely American spirit of risk-taking, large ambition, and optimism about the future. We must rally them now to bold departures that rebuild our national morale as well as our material prosperity.
– Mitch Daniels
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The failure of Christianity in the areas west from Sicily was even greater, and was increased by the spread of Arab outlooks and influence to that area, and especially to Spain.
– Carroll Quigley
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The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower.
– Audre Lorde
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The failure in Ohio to have adequate voting capacity for the people who were registered and eligible to vote was an absolute denial of their right to vote.
– Carol Moseley Braun
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The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I, therefore, intend to oppose the effort to increase America's debt.
– Barack Obama
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The fact that The Bridge contains folk lore and other material suitable to the epic form need not therefore prove its failure as a long lyric poem, with interrelated sections.
– Hart Crane
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The exposed nature of life in the public square affects leaders' attitudes toward risk - and failure.
– Dee Dee Myers
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The difference between a beautifully made failure and a beautifully made hit is who you've got playing the leads.
– Steven Moffat
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The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible that is, that one is male and the other female.
– Anna Quindlen
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The carrying out of the Potsdam Agreement has, however, been obstructed by the failure of the Allied Control Council to take the necessary steps to enable the German economy to function as an economic unit.
– James F. Byrnes
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The Bush Administration's failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world.
– Barack Obama
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The biggest problem in my life is trying to be the kind of man that I want to be, the father that I want to be, and how to process the failure of my marriage.
– Ethan Hawke
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The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed.
– Nigel Farage
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The attributes for entrepreneurs cut both ways. You need the ability to ignore inconvenient facts and see the world as it should be and not as it is. This inspires people to take huge leaps of faith. But this blindness to facts can be a liability, too. The characteristics that help entrepreneurs succeed can also lead to their failure.
– Eric Ries
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The assertion of failure coming from such persons does not mean that Mr. Mill failed to promote the practical success of those objects the advocacy of which forms the chief feature of his political writings.
– Millicent Fawcett
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That sense of failure, I don't know where people put it who don't write songs and aren't able to emote physically. It must go somewhere.
– Sting
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Testing leads to failure, and failure leads to understanding.
– Burt Rutan
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Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the civilized world, while a totally voluntary society represents its ultimate success.
– Mark Skousen
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Successful entrepreneurs find the balance between listening to their inner voice and staying persistent in driving for success - because sometimes success is waiting right across from the transitional bump that's disguised as failure.
– Naveen Jain
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Success represents the 1% of your work which results from the 99% that is called failure.
– Soichiro Honda
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Success needs no explanation. Failure does not have one that matters.
– Jesse Jackson
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Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure.
– Sylvester Stallone
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Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.
– Coco Chanel
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Success is not built on success. It's built on failure. It's built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe.
– Sumner Redstone
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Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble.
– Shahrukh Khan
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Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.
– Graham Greene
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Success is always less funny than failure.
– Jon Ronson
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Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.
– Andy Grove
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Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period.
– Felicity Kendal
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Success and failure are both part of life. Both are not permanent.
– Shahrukh Khan
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Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure.
– Sidney Hook
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Start-ups make so many mistakes that the challenge to identify the root cause of a failure is tough. But believing in your own plan is probably the worst.
– Eric Ries
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Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.
– Dale Dauten
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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
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Sometimes people call me a success for all the reasons that make me think I'm a failure.
– William Hurt
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Sometimes failure isn't an opportunity in disguise, it's just you.
– Doug Coupland
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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
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Some people will go to the opening of an envelope. They live their lives in the public eye and get off on it, they need it. They need that kind of adoration. If their name isn't in the tabloids once a week they feel like a failure.
– Jensen Ackles
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Some of the reasons John McCain lost in 2008 were his lackluster campaign, his refusal to showcase Obama's extreme liberalism and, thus, his failure to demonstrate why he would make a better president than Obama.
– David Limbaugh
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Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
– Thomas Sowell
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So while I will never minimize the costs involved in military action, I am convinced that a failure to act in Libya would have carried a far greater price for America.
– Barack Obama
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So the poet, who wants to be something that he cannot be, and is a failure in plain life, makes up fictitious versions of his predicament that are interesting even to other persons because nobody is a perfect automobile salesman.
– Allen Tate
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So nevertheless, what I'm saying is that what one is - one's parameters are constantly narrowed by one's success, and my desire is to widen my field even if I risk failure.
– Jeremy Irons
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So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind that exhausts the imaginative capacity if it fails to do this the failure will announce itself either in prose or in insignificant verse.
– John Drinkwater
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So I try not to have any actual expectations for myself for any level of success or failure.
– Gavin DeGraw
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Schools don't really allow failure and yet it's a valid part of any endeavour, not just writing.
– Roddy Doyle
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Sadness is a super important thing not to be ashamed about but to include in our lives. One of the bigger problems with sadness or depression is there's so much shame around it. If you have it you're a failure. You are felt as being very unattractive.
– Mike Mills
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Remember that failure is an event, not a person.
– Zig Ziglar
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Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure, if only in the specifically technical sense of entering spaces where prevailing criteria of success scarcely apply.
– Brian Ferneyhough
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Please know that I am aware of the hazards. I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be a challenge to others.
– Amelia Earhart
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Philanthropic colonization is a failure. National colonization will succeed.
– Theodor Herzl
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Pharmaceutical companies are enjoying unprecedented profits and access with this Administration. Yet the Republicans' prescription drug plan for seniors has been a colossal failure, and over 43 million Americans wake up every morning without health insurance.
– Jim Clyburn
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Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success.
– Kenneth L. Pike
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Our system provides for a winner to take office on January 20th, and he is expected to take command of the ship of state. Failure to do so, characterized by hesitation and indecision, will harm the national interest.
– Richard V. Allen
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Our nation's Social Security Trust Fund is depleting at an alarming rate, and failure to implement immediate reforms endangers the ability of Americans to plan for their retirement with the options and certainty they deserve.
– Pete Sessions
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Our failure to properly deal with Germany and Japan early cost the world dearly later on. We dare not make the same mistake with China.
– Steve Forbes
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Our failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq thus far has been deeply troubling, and our intelligence-gathering process needs thorough and unbiased investigation.
– Adam Schiff
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