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Failure

As a younger player, you always kind of play with that fear of failure. – Jason Giambi

I rise today to offer a formal and heartfelt apology to all the victims of lynching in our history, and for the failure of the United States Senate to take action when action was most needed. – George Allen

You have to risk failure to succeed. The important thing is not to make one single mistake that will jeopardize the future. – An Wang

If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate. – Thomas John Watson, Sr.

Slowly the poison the whole blood stream fills. It is not the effort nor the failure tires. The waste remains, the waste remains and kills. – William Empson

The assertion of failure coming from such persons does not mean that Mr. Mill failed to promote the practical success of those objects the advocacy of which forms the chief feature of his political writings. – Millicent Fawcett

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 grew up playing sports. There is a clear line between success and failure. – Tiki Barber

I think our failure in the production of good town churches of distinctive character must have struck you often, as it has me, when contrasted with our comparative success in country churches. – George Edmund Street

Divorce is never a pleasant experience. You look upon it as a failure. But I learned to be a different person once we broke up. Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success. – Michael Crawford

Testing leads to failure, and failure leads to understanding. – Burt Rutan

The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same. – Colin R. Davis

After that he turned to the question of invading England. Hitler said that during the previous year he could not afford to risk a possible failure apart from that, he had not wished to provoke the British, as he hoped to arrange peace talks. – Kurt Student

In Washington, success is just a training course for failure. – Simon Hoggart

Never permit failure to become a habit. – William Frederick Book

Failure is not a crime. The crime is not trying. – Ron Dellums

Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy. – Montgomery Clift

I had to succeed. Failure means I would have to be homeless again. – Elie Tahari

Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life. – E. Franklin Frazier

Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility. – Dale Dauten