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The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures. -- Humphry Davy
Who I am as a guitarist is defined by my failure to become Jimi Hendrix. -- John Mayer
My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them. -- Jack Kerouac
I thank God for my failures. Maybe not at the time but after some reflection. I never feel like a failure just because something I tried has failed. -- Dolly Parton
My happiness is marred only by my failure to attain it. -- Mary Ruefle
I am not shame of my failures, they were necessary for my ultimate success. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
I arise to face my failures every morning, but I never fail to face them. -- Gino Norris
It's my failure to sound like my heroes that's allowed me to sound like myself. -- John Mayer
Anything I wanted to do and achieve has not been influential in my life, but my failures have. -- Imtiaz Ali
I had to come to terms with my failure as an artist... I had to find a way for myself. -- Tracey Emin
When preaching is done right, it can change lives. When it's done badly, my failure goes beyond the merely human. -- John Ortberg
If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent. -- Salman Rushdie
I don't believe in astrology. The only stars I can blame for my failures are those that walk about the stage. -- Noel Coward
I have had unsuccessful films, but I learned a lot from those films. I give my failures as much importance as my success. -- Aamir Khan
I think the company's [HP's] success will be my legacy. The company's failure will be my failure, with all the predictable consequences of that. -- Carly Fiorina
I wish I could blame my failure on my integrity & refusal to play bullshit games. But the truth is I just play them really badly. -- Stephen Schneider
What helped me most were my failures and slumps - when I couldn't get work, people weren't interested in me or had written me off. -- Frank Langella
At 49, I can say something I never would have said when I was a player, that I'm a better person because of my failures and disgraces. -- Bill Walton
I knew that there were several, among African-American leaders, who had been put out by me because of my failure or reluctance to endorse Sen. Kerry -- Rodney Alexander
I knew that there were several, among African-American leaders, who had been put out by me because of my failure or reluctance to endorse Sen. Kerry. -- Rodney Alexander
I was able to overcome my failures because I was always confident of my abilities and was sure I could achieve what I had set out for. -- Anupam Kher
Grant me that I may not be a coward, feeling your mercy in my success alone; but let me find the grasp of your hand in my failure. -- Rabindranath Tagore
MY REGRETS ARE ABOUT THE PEOPLE I COULDNâ??T SAVEâ??Marines, soldiers, my buddies. I still feel their loss. I still ache for my failure to protect them. -- Chris Kyle
My debts are large, my failures great, my shame secret and heavy; yet I come to ask for my good, I quake in fear lest my prayer be granted. -- Rabindranath Tagore
The truth is - most things are probably gonna fail. But my failures bring me to the next thing. So in that regard, nothing's a failure, it's a continuation. -- RuPaul
I've never really been very good at marriage. It's one of my failures. I've tried my best, but I do realise the common denominator is me; it's something I'm doing. -- Len Goodman
My success will be remembered by others. I don't have to constantly remind myself. However, I must always remember my failure, for if I forget them, I am bound to myself. -- Lee Myung-bak
All I can do will only ever be a faint image of what I see and my success will always be less than my failure or perhaps equal to the failure. -- Alberto Giacometti
If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress. -- Calvin Coolidge
I have had many successes and many failures in my life. My successes have always been for different reasons, but my failures have always been for the same reason: I said yes when I meant no. -- Moss Hart
There's no path to being a writer that's applicable to everyone. Some young writers have the fortitude to work in a vacuum. For me, it was important to have some sense that my failures weren't unique. -- Jonathan Dee
I had a God who knew my every desire. He also knew how I would fall. And yet he was waiting on the other side of my failure and my shattered dreams with some dreams of his own... -- Eric Ludy
I have found progress, personal growth, and new and exciting opportunities in my failure. I've grown more comfortable with the fact that in certain circumstances, I'm the person in the room who knows the least about what's going on. -- John C. Maxwell
If you hear my idea but don't believe it, that's not your fault; it's mine. If you see my new product but don't buy it, that's my failure, not yours. If you attend my presentation and you're bored, that's my fault too. -- Seth Godin
I do public appearances. I'm bluff, hearty, goofy. I wear loud clothes, and I read the funny bits. I occasionally get taken to task for one thing or another, and I acknowledge my fault, my flaw, my failure, and I move on. -- Nick Harkaway
But whatever my failure, I have this thing to remember - that I was a pioneer in my profession, just as my grandfathers were in theirs, in that I was the first man in this section to earn his living as a writer. -- Robert E. Howard
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I can rise above the humility of my failure with an intense desire to search deeper and a blind faith that some day my sight may pierce through the veils that hide. I know God's face is there if I keep my gaze steady enough. -- Emily Carr
I later discovered that in order to be a good athlete one must care intensely what is happening with a ball, even if one doesn't have possession of it. This was ultimately my failure: my inability to work up a passion for the location of balls. -- Haven Kimmel
I think we both need to work on our communication skills. (Kiara) I tried that once. (Nykyrian) And? (Kiara) Darling told me that I could never hold a job as a suicide counselor or hostage negotiator. He said my failure rate would become the stuff of legends. (Nykyrian) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
My greatest fear is failure. -- Chris Zylka
My reputation grows with every failure. -- George Bernard Shaw
My life has been nothing but a failure. -- Claude Monet
Fear of failure has always been my best motivator. -- Douglas Wood
My films seem to be about men's struggle with failure. -- Tom Hooper
My failures have been errors in judgment, not of intent. -- Ulysses S. Grant
A hatred of failure has always been part of my nature. -- J. Paul Getty
Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough. -- Og Mandino
The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality. -- Toni Cade Bambara
My biggest failure is 'Metal Gear.' It's my biggest failure and my biggest success. -- Hideo Kojima
For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures. -- Mary Augusta Ward
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
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
I think about all my successes and failures, and sometimes the failures stick in your head as much as the wins. But you do move on. -- Frank Lampard
I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success. -- J. Paul Getty
I have tried to devote my life - with all my husband failures, father failures, pastor failures, friend failures, any other possible failures I'm sure I've done them - to the God-centeredness of God and my aspiring, yearning to join Him in that activity. God is passionate about hallowing the name of God. -- John Piper
Failure is my specialty. -- Barbara Corcoran
Success is my motherfuckin' option Failure's not! -- Eminem
My teachers used to call me a failure -- Tony Blair
The slaughterhouse of failure is not my destiny. -- Og Mandino
Failure gave me strength. Pain was my motivation -- Michael Jordan
Failure was a key element to my life's journey. -- Paul Tudor Jones
My brain cannot process failure... It WILL not process failure -- Kobe Bryant
Most of my conscious efforts have ended in embarrassing failure... -- Ingmar Bergman
It was my dream Not its failure that damaged me -- Linda Gregg
My greatest fear is not your failure, but your success. -- Howard G. Hendricks
The success and the failure are not my concern, but His. -- Joseph Barber Lightfoot
Failure was not an option. It just wasn't in my vocabulary. -- Hilary Devey
My biggest failure is I have too many to talk about. -- Dean Kamen
In my mind, partial failure is always better than delusory success. -- William A. Henry III
The only failure is not knowing how to be happy."---My Story -- Celine Dion
My heart may be black but it was still capable of heart failure. -- Abbi Glines
A fictionalised memoir of my father would be a failure as a novel. -- Richard Flanagan
If I didn't have children, I think my life would be a failure. -- Yann Martel
My headshot is a scratch and sniff, it smells like failure and onions. -- Zach Galifianakis
So many times in my life, people have tried to make me a failure. -- Keyshawn Johnson
Failure will not overcome me so long as my will to succeed is stronger -- Michael Kirby
I am facing the most difficult thing of my life, my own greatest failure. -- Richard Paul Evans
My film directorial career has been nothing but repetition of one failure after another! -- Takeshi Kitano
The dream is real, my friends. The failure to make it work is the unreality. -- Toni Cade Bambara
Failure is my best friend. If I succeeded, it would be like dying. Maybe worse. -- Alberto Giacometti
My best teachers were mess, failure, death, mistakes, and the people I hated, including myself. -- Anne Lamott
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If anyone has seen success and failure on a global stage, it's my friend Steve Forbes. -- Peter Diamandis
I'm drawn to failure. I feel that I'm contending with it constantly in my own life. -- Joyce Carol Oates
I'm drawn to failure. I feel like I'm contending with it constantly in my own life. -- Joyce Carol Oates
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure. -- Abraham Lincoln
I didn't allow failure to break my heart. So I wouldn't allow success to bloat my head. -- Randeep Hooda
For me, the path of failure exceeded by far the joys of success. My plight was hopeless. -- Dominick Dunne
The failure of The Cable Guy impacted my career. I had to start writing and acting again. -- Ben Stiller
Coming to terms with the fact that my marriage was a failure was devastating and very difficult. -- Sarah McLachlan
I think my whole life, because of where I came from, I had a fear of failure. -- Howard Schultz
I picture my epitaph: 'Here lies Paul Newman, who died a failure because his eyes turned brown. -- Paul Newman
Through failure, I found different ways to reverse my problems and get into the mainstream of Hollywood. -- Sylvester Stallone
My problem is that I don't get the same exhiliration from success as I get depression from failure. -- Steve Martin
I failed first grade, which is my biggest problem. You always feel like a failure, like you're stupid. -- Amy Sedaris
The burn is my girlfriend, failure is my ex. I'm married to the track and engaged to success. -- Andre Bramble
My feeling, based on my own experience, is that aiming for grandiosity is the fastest route to failure. -- James Altucher
My advice is find fuel in failure. Sometimes failure gets you closer to where you want to be. -- Michael Jordan
Incompetence, in my books, is the failure of the critical faculties to interfere constructively with the natural flow. -- Robert Genn
A big part of my job is to remember failure, and reboot failure, when the timing is right. -- Edward Boyden
constituted a critical lapse in judgement and a personal failure on my part for which I am solely responsable -- William J. Clinton
I've had my share of struggle. I believe, never take success to your head or failure to your heart. -- Randeep Hooda
Failure isn't really an option because, as my grandmother used to say, "Nothing beats a failure but a try." -- Joy Bryant
I tried to kill myself when I was thirteen but failed. That was the greatest failure of my life. -- S.A. Tawks
My parents told me I must get married. I was seen as a failure if I didn't do it. -- Ben Folds
My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States. -- Harry S. Truman
My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States. -- Harry S. Truman
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If you were to plot my success or failure, it goes, it very seldom stays on a high plateau. -- Jeff Beck
I've got to formulate a plot or end up in jail or shot, success is my only option, failure's not. -- Eminem
I kneel to my Lord because I am such a failure. I pray, I hope, I look to the Gospels. -- Alexander Theroux
When I was about 15... I made my first attempt as a leading lady, and was, of course, a complete failure. -- Maude Adams
When I was about 15... I made my first attempt as a leading lady, and was, of course, a complete failure. -- Maude Adams
I plan on going so deep into the desert, that any failure of my equipment could cost me my life. -- Evan Tanner
My life, my career has been like a roller coaster. I've either been an enormous success or just a down-and-out failure. -- Judy Garland
I assumed that everything would lead to complete failure, but I decided that didn't matter "? that would be my life. -- Jasper Johns
When i started flirting with the hustle, failure became my ex, now I'm engaged to the game and married to success. -- Lil Wayne
I was learning the craft; I didn't study writing in school. Rejection was my motivation, and failure is what taught me. -- Pierce Brown
As the sun shines I will make hayTo keep failure at bayFor there remaineth a payFor my honest toil each day. -- Ogwo David Emenike

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