3 December 2020 Jimmy Carr As soon as I did my first five minutes of stand-up I knew that I would rather be a failure at comedy than a success in marketing.
3 December 2020 Hideki Tojo The reason was the failure of both Japan and China to understand each other and the inability of America and the European powers to sympathize, without prejudice, with the peoples of East Asia.
3 December 2020 Winston Churchill Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
3 December 2020 Gordon Moore With engineering, I view this year’s failure as next year’s opportunity to try it again. Failures are not something to be avoided. You want to have them happen as quickly as you can so you can make progress rapidly.
3 December 2020 Edward Dowden Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.
3 December 2020 Mike Peters It breaks my heart to see these young, really talented bands getting chewed up into the system. I remember a time if you’d signed to a major label it was such a sell out! But now… unless you’ve signed to a big label, you’re a failure now.
3 December 2020 William James There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
3 December 2020 Amelia Earhart Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail their failure must be but a challenge to others.
3 December 2020 Mason Cooley I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Karl Liebknecht The failure of the Russian Socialist Republic will be the defeat of the proletariat of the whole world.
3 December 2020 Estelle Morris Before this government came to power, many failing schools were simply allowed to drift on in a pattern of continuing failure. The government is determined to break that pattern and is successfully doing so.
3 December 2020 Harvey Korman And I went to New York and died for 10 years I walked those pavements. I can’t think of New York without feeling uncomfortable and feeling like a failure.
3 December 2020 Laurence J. Peter The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
3 December 2020 Gavin DeGraw So I try not to have any actual expectations for myself for any level of success or failure.
3 December 2020 Chris Hedges The failure to dissect the cause of war leaves us open for the next installment.
3 December 2020 Sylvester Stallone It would be great to be able to pass on to someone all of the successes, the failures, and the knowledge that one has had. To help someone, avoid all the fire, pain and anxiety would be wonderful.
3 December 2020 Eric Hoffer There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.
3 December 2020 Abraham Maslow One’s only rival is one’s own potentialities. One’s only failure is failing to live up to one’s own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.
3 December 2020 Naveen Jain When you experience a failure as a leader, don’t hide it – talk about it. Your missed opportunity will encourage others to take risks.
3 December 2020 An Wang You have to risk failure to succeed. The important thing is not to make one single mistake that will jeopardize the future.
3 December 2020 Orlando Bloom Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
3 December 2020 Malcolm Mclaren Art school had taught me it was far better to be a flamboyant failure than any kind of benign success.
