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If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless. – Robert H. Schuller

Failure is not our only punishment for laziness there is also the success of others. – Jules Renard

The failure of national economic policy is costing us more than jobs it has begun to weaken that uniquely American spirit of risk-taking, large ambition, and optimism about the future. We must rally them now to bold departures that rebuild our national morale as well as our material prosperity. – Mitch Daniels

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me. – J. K. Rowling

Not failure, but low aim, is crime. – James Russell Lowell

In Torch Song, I did that character almost non-stop from 1978 until I made the movie in 1987. Then I had some failure, which also colors how you react to doing other things. – Harvey Fierstein

Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity. – Gary Ryan Blair

They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America? – Fidel Castro

There are only really a few stories to tell in the end, and betrayal and the failure of love is one of those good stories to tell. – Sean Lennon

To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment. – James Allen

My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them. – Jack Kerouac

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. – John Dewey

He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being. – Paul Tillich

Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them. – Doug Coupland

A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough. – Christian Nestell Bovee

One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure. – John W. Gardner

Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime. – James Russell Lowell

Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength. – Karen Armstrong

War remains the decisive human failure. – John Kenneth Galbraith

If Liberia has failed, then, it is no evidence of the failure of the Negro in government. It is merely evidence of the failure of slavery. – Carter G. Woodson