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I dont know many people, if any, who have had some straight line toward success. I mean, they start here, they work hard, theyve got what it takes, and they just go straight to the top over some number of years. Most people get a little failure. – Sam Donaldson

Pharmaceutical companies are enjoying unprecedented profits and access with this Administration. Yet the Republicans prescription drug plan for seniors has been a colossal failure, and over 43 million Americans wake up every morning without health insurance. – Jim Clyburn

Theres no such thing as failure – just waiting for success. – John Osborne

Failure is what were all running from, were always running toward success with failure at our back. – Natalie Goldberg

I feel that The Great Failure is really a book written out of great love and a willingness to face all of who a human being is. – Natalie Goldberg

I was brought up to believe that there is no such thing as failure as long as Im trying my best. So Ive had a blood, guts and glory approach through my whole life. – Ali Larter

Well, I think first of all there was a failure to have real, clear information at our disposal. There was a real lack of situational awareness. We didnt have the capabilities on the ground to give us real-time, accurate assessments of the physical condition of the city. – Michael Chertoff

My big philosophy is: Try and work with good people, because the process is your life. Thats going to be really, really hard. Im glad I learned the lesson, Failure is OK. – Dana Fox

You can be discouraged by failure, or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes, make all you can. Because, remember thats where youll find success – on the far side of failure. – Thomas John Watson, Sr.

There comes a point in your moviegoing life where you look at the screen and then you look at the world and you ask, What is going on? You want the movies to show you the chaos and mess and risk and failure that are normal for a lot of us. Generally, the movies hide all of that. – Wesley Morris

Dont come home a failure. – Ty Cobb

Ive become a professional failure – in order to pay the mortgage I have to remain unemployed. Luckily, a disaster always seems to befall me at exactly the right moment. – Toby Young

In Britain, by contrast, we still think that class plays a part in determining a persons life chances, so were less inclined to celebrate success and less inclined to condemn failure. The upshot is that its much easier to be a failure in Britain than it is in America. – Toby Young

Critics? Dont talk to me of critics! You think some jackanapes journalist, his soul eaten away by the maggots of jealousy and failure, has anything worthwhile to say of art? I dont. – Jonathan Raban

His advice to me is basically to just love what you do and dont let the fear of failure stop you. – Oliver Hudson

Ive always embraced failure as a noble pursuit. It allows you to be anti whatever anyone wants you to be, and to break all the rules. – Malcolm Mclaren

Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures – youve just got to be sure that its a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed. – Malcolm Mclaren

I – and I still consider myself, Im sorry to tell you, a Marxist and a Communist, but I couldnt help noticing how all the best Marxist analyses are always analyses of a failure. – Slavoj Zizek

My work ethic came from my parents and my fear of failure. I came from a small, predominantly black school and I didnt want to let them down. – Jerry Rice

If youre a doctor or a lawyer or teacher, if you only get three things right out of 10, youre considered a failure. – Jamie Moyer