1. I really do think that putting expectations on a holiday is setting yourself up for failure. - Delilah
2. There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows. - George Eliot
3. I'm very comfortable with failure. I'm very comfortable being the guy who disappoints people. - Steven Soderbergh
4. I don't lose any sleep at night over the potential for failure. I cannot even spell the word. - Jim Mattis
5. No man can be a failure if he thinks he's a success; If he thinks he is a winner, then he is. - Robert W. Service
6. My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States. - Harry S Truman
7. The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen. - P. J. O'Rourke
8. In our business, things look like a failure until they're not. It's pretty binary transitions. - Satya Nadella
9. If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure. - Douglas Coupland
10. My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure. - Abraham Lincoln
11. Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure. - Benjamin Disraeli
12. If something's important enough, you should try. Even if you - the probable outcome is failure. - Elon Musk
13. Fear of failure, it's the greatest motivational tool. It drives me and drives me and drives me. - Jerry West
14. Call it the Tiger Mom effect: In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option. - Naveen Jain
15. It is easier to win than to fail. Everybody sides with the winner. But the failure walks alone. - George Matthew Adams
16. Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence. - Colin Powell
17. If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent. - Salman Rushdie
18. Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions. - Orlando Bloom
19. Coming to terms with the fact that my marriage was a failure was devastating and very difficult. - Sarah McLachlan
20. The British health care system is a blueprint for the failure of Obamacare, as it is structured. - Marsha Blackburn
21. If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative. - Woody Allen
22. Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness. - Oprah Winfrey
23. Failure is the most terrible thing in our business. When we fail, the whole world knows about it. - Desi Arnaz
24. President Obama's greatest failure is his failure regarding foreign policy and national security. - Elise Stefanik
25. When you accept that failure is a good thing, it can actually be a huge propeller toward success. - Whitney Wolfe Herd
26. I always write about subjects which attract me because if I didn't, it would be awful, a failure. - Ruth Rendell
27. Boston has carried the practice of hypocrisy to the n-th degree of refinement, grace, and failure. - Lincoln Steffens
28. One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure. - John W. Gardner
29. It's not about failure; it's about trying something and risking something for attaining your goal. - Carol Alt
30. I read somewhere that failure is an event, not a person, but I never feel that way. It's who I am. - Jeff Van Gundy
31. Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them. - John C. Maxwell
32. Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure. - Napoleon Hill
33. If terrorists are already on our southern border, a national-security failure has already occurred. - Mike Pompeo
34. We have to provide more visibility, more certainty to the investors and reduce the cost of failure. - Emmanuel Macron
35. Yes, 'Aagadu' was a failure. I was dejected for a couple of months, since there was a lot at stake. - Mahesh Babu
36. I've had my share of struggle. I believe, never take success to your head or failure to your heart. - Randeep Hooda
37. Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure. - Confucius
38. Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities. - Walter Scott
39. Oh, man. I love '13 Going on 30,' 'I love Failure to Launch,' I love 'How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days.' - Noah Centineo
40. The failure to invest in youth reflects a lack of compassion and a colossal failure of common sense. - Coretta Scott King
41. The federal government has been a proven failure in picking winners and losers in the energy sector. - Mike Pompeo
42. This game is obviously about failure. You're going to fail most of the time. It's how you handle it. - Mookie Betts
43. There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions. - Orlando Bloom
44. Tasting failure, even when you truly believe in a project, is a critical part of the growth process. - Daniel Lubetzky
45. Among all the tests President Obama faced in his first term, his biggest failure was climate change. - Jeff Goodell
46. It is in our genes that we think of breaking up when we love and of failure and fall when we succeed. - RM
47. If you fall during your life, it doesn't matter. You're never a failure as long as you try to get up. - Evel Knievel
48. There is no middle ground in Hollywood; you're a failure or you're a success. That mentality is wild. - Javier Bardem
49. When you can look at failure and say, 'What is the worst case scenario,' it's not as bad as it seems. - Whitney Wolfe Herd
50. As an outside; don't worry about failure, because failure will take care of itself. Focus on success. - Henry Cavill
51. This game is a game of failure, and you're going to fail a heck of a lot more than you succeed in it. - Alex Bregman
52. Failure is what we're all running from, we're always running toward success with failure at our back. - Natalie Goldberg
53. Failure, it is thought, is what sells, and what people want to hear and read about. I am not so sure. - Alastair Campbell
54. The exposed nature of life in the public square affects leaders' attitudes toward risk - and failure. - Dee Dee Myers
55. I failed first grade, which is my biggest problem. You always feel like a failure, like you're stupid. - Amy Sedaris
56. Remember what Susan B. Anthony said? 'Failure is impossible.' Failure is possible if women don't vote. - Madeleine M. Kunin
57. Art school had taught me it was far better to be a flamboyant failure than any kind of benign success. - Malcolm Mclaren
58. Unwillingness to risk failure is always there, but it gets harder when you feel you have more to lose. - Demi Moore
59. Chidamabaram has ruined the economy. He has turned out to be a third-rate failure as finance minister. - Subramanian Swamy
60. I think somehow you need to get to a certain point in your life where the notion of failure is absurd. - Jeff Tweedy
61. We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes. - Amos Bronson Alcott
62. There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. - Colin Powell
63. It's not about the failure, it's about learning from the failures. Failure itself cannot be celebrated. - Satya Nadella
64. It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression. - Eric Hoffer
65. My feeling, based on my own experience, is that aiming for grandiosity is the fastest route to failure. - James Altucher
66. Failure has never been a signal for me to quit; it's always been a sign for me to go down another path. - Jesse Itzler
67. Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature. - Phyllis Schlafly
68. I feel that marriage can lead to the ultimate rejection and failure and divorce and things we all fear. - Mike Birbiglia
69. Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit. - Napoleon Hill
70. Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. - Thomas A. Edison
71. Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy. - P. J. O'Rourke
72. Life is bigger than cinema. Cinema is just a part of life, so I never take success or failure seriously. - Pawan Kalyan
73. If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success. - James Cameron
74. Anything less than gold is a failure to me. It's extreme pressure, but I hold myself to a high standard. - Jordan Burroughs
75. The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure. - B. C. Forbes
76. Some teachers feel that if they ask for emotional help, they're a failure. But teaching is a team sport. - Erin Gruwell
77. I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy. - Mason Cooley
78. Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime. - James Russell Lowell
79. Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets. - Michael Korda
80. The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure. - John C. Maxwell
81. A traveller must buy his own experience, and success or failure depends mainly on personal idiosyncrasies. - Isabella Bird
82. Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success. - C. S. Lewis
83. 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
84. Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it. - Thomas Sowell
85. Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success. - Dale Carnegie
86. He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being. - Paul Tillich
87. I have tried every diet to lose weight. When you restrict yourself, you're setting yourself up for failure. - Octavia Spencer
88. 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
89. I just felt that 'Golden Balls' was the right thing to do. I didn't care if people thought I was a failure. - Jasper Carrott
90. Revolutionaries were depressed and close to emotional breakdown; after the failure, they left successively. - Sun Yat-sen
91. There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house. - Eric Hoffer
92. Confidence is contagious, but so is failure. Even the Yankees will lose if you persuade them that they will. - Rosabeth Moss Kanter
93. I constantly experience failure in that my work is never as good as I want it to be. So I live with failure. - Jeremy Irons
94. Apple is a failure because they missed social? Nobody would say that, because they are having great success. - Steve Ballmer
95. I hate how box-office failures are blamed on an actress, yet I don't see a box-office failure blamed on men. - Ellen Page
96. Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it. - Mia Hamm
97. I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success. - A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
98. Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community. - H. G. Wells
99. I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure. - T. Boone Pickens
100. Try not to say, 'I'm a failure.' Instead, ask, 'What can I do better? What did I do wrong?' Then re-approach. - Jillian Michaels
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