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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 on failure

And in reality, I don't think it's a real documentary. It's more a story of her life. It's a story of survival. It's a story of the time in which she lived. The story of success and failure.
Maximilian Schell on failure

The failure of world leaders to act on the critical issue of global warming is often blamed on economic considerations.
David Suzuki on failure

Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.
Daniel Webster on failure

I don't understand a way to work other than bold-facedly running towards failure.
Cate Blanchett on failure

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

Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure.
Jack Lemmon on failure

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

Failure too is a form of death.
Graham Greene on failure

Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.
Graham Greene on failure

Success needs no explanation. Failure does not have one that matters.
Jesse Jackson on failure

Fear of failure has always been my best motivator.
Douglas Wood on failure

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.
Herbert Samuel on failure

I've tried to handle winning well, so that maybe we'll win again, but I've also tried to handle failure well. If those serve as good examples for teachers and kids, then I hope that would be a contribution I have made to sport. Not just basketball, but to sport.
Mike Krzyzewski on failure

If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.
Al Gore on failure

I may be a successful football player, but I feel like such a failure.
Brett Favre on failure

If you get into a Broadway show and it doesn't work, you're a failure. And if it does work, you may be stuck for who knows how long. It just doesn't sound great to me!
Betty White on failure

I realized that I was afraid to really, really try something, 100%, because I had never reached true failure.
Trent Reznor on failure