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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man. – William Howard Taft

I will not be discouraged by failure I will not be elated by success. – Joseph Barber Lightfoot

The mere thought of divorce terrified me. To me, divorce symbolized failure. – Annette Funicello

By far the most important factor in the success or failure of any school, far more important than tests or standards or business-model methods of accountability, is simply attracting the best-educated, most exciting young people into urban schools and keeping them there. – Jonathan Kozol

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

Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty. – Lillian Hellman

You have to look at the history of the Middle East in particular. It has been one of failure and frustration, of feudalism and tribalism. – Alexander Haig

Hollywood… a city I was to come back to time and again, in sickness and in health, in success and in failure, with anticipation and with dread. – Dirk Benedict

Life is so fresh, life is every day so new if we are fighting, only for the best. Sometimes I think the only real satisfaction in life is failure, failure in your endeavor to do your best. – Maude Adams

Rather than viewing a brief relapse back to inactivity as a failure, treat it as a challenge and try to get back on track as soon as possible. – Jimmy Connors

If you have a level of expectation in your life that you have to be a quote-unquote star, whatever that means, you might be setting yourself up for failure. – Bryan Cranston

Unless we practice conservation, those who come after us will have to pay the price of misery, degradation, and failure for the progress and prosperity of our day. – Gifford Pinchot

Civilization is a failure. We need to think what we can do together in love and peace. – Serj Tankian