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Failure

Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive. – Scott Adams

Young players need freedom of expression to develop as creative players… they should be encouraged to try skills without fear of failure. – Arsene Wenger

This dullness of vision regarding the importance of the general welfare to the individual is the measure of the failure of our schools and churches to teach the spiritual significance of genuine democracy. – Henry A. Wallace

A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself. – Gertrude Stein

There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success. – Max Beerbohm

You have to be able to accept failure to get better. – LeBron James

Please know that I am aware of the hazards. I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be a challenge to others. – Amelia Earhart

The will to persevere is often the difference between failure and success. – David Sarnoff

Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions. – Orlando Bloom

I believe in trusting men, not only once but twice – in giving a failure another chance. – James Cash Penney

The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top. – Joyce Brothers

The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower. – Audre Lorde

Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail their failure must be but a challenge to others. – Amelia Earhart

Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result? Could the underlying cause be our failure to correctly understand the true nature of happiness? – Daisaku Ikeda

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure – which is: Try to please everybody. – Herbert Bayard Swope

Not failure, but low aim is sin. – Benjamin E. Mays

Failure is a part of success. – Hank Aaron

We know there is no such thing as freedom without the risk of failure. – Rick Perry

Heaven knows that I have done all that a mortal could do, to save the people, and the failure was not my fault, but the fault of others. – Davy Crockett

Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure. – Sylvester Stallone