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The will to persevere is often the difference between failure and success.
David Sarnoff on failure

Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
Orlando Bloom on failure

I believe in trusting men, not only once but twice - in giving a failure another chance.
James Cash Penney on 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 on failure

The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.
Joyce Brothers on failure

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 on 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 on failure

Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think.
Marshall McLuhan on failure

If we don't succeed we run the risk of failure.
Dan Quayle on failure

Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.
Fred Allen on 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 on failure

I don't want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about.
Emma Watson on failure

Translation is the art of failure.
Umberto Eco on failure

I've probably earned the right to screw up a few times. I don't want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about.
Emma Watson on failure

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.
Herbert Bayard Swope on failure

For families across the UK who are income-poor, but more than that, whose lives are blighted by worklessness, educational failure, family breakdown, problem debt and poor health, as well as other problems, giving them an extra pound - say through increased benefits - will not address the reason they find themselves in difficulty in the first place.
Iain Duncan Smith on failure

Not failure, but low aim is sin.
Benjamin E. Mays on failure

Failure is a part of success.
Hank Aaron on failure

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

Heaven knows that I have done all that a mortal could do, to save the people, and the failure was not my fault, but the fault of others.
Davy Crockett on failure