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3 December 2020 Anna Quindlen

The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible that is, that one is male and the other female.

3 December 2020 Irving Babbitt

To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the most difficult of all, and so important, withal, that nations have perished from their failure to achieve it.

3 December 2020 Brian Ferneyhough

There would seem to be a limit, even for an art preoccupied with boundaries and transgressions, beyond which a work reaches its breaking point and becomes an actual failure, a mere experimentation.

3 December 2020 Bodhidharma

But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.

3 December 2020 Yann Martel

If I didn’t have children, I think my life would be a failure.

3 December 2020 Rosalyn S. Yalow

The failure of women to have reached positions of leadership has been due in large part to social and professional discrimination.

3 December 2020 Lucille Ball

I hate failure and that divorce was a Number One failure in my eyes. It was the worst period of my life. Neither Desi nor I have been the same since, physically or mentally.

3 December 2020 Jane Rule

I believe only in art and failure.

3 December 2020 Robert W. Service

No man can be a failure if he thinks he’s a success If he thinks he is a winner, then he is.

3 December 2020 Maude Adams

When I was about 15… I made my first attempt as a leading lady, and was, of course, a complete failure.

3 December 2020 T. Boone Pickens

I’ve always believed that it’s important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

3 December 2020 H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

If you’re doing your best, you won’t have any time to worry about failure.

3 December 2020 David Limbaugh

Some of the reasons John McCain lost in 2008 were his lackluster campaign, his refusal to showcase Obama’s extreme liberalism and, thus, his failure to demonstrate why he would make a better president than Obama.

3 December 2020 Malcolm X

In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.

3 December 2020 Samuel Beckett

Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.

3 December 2020 John Mica

Other countries, such as Israel, successfully employ behavior detection techniques at their airports, but the bloated, ineffective bureaucracy of TSA has produced another security failure for U.S. transportation systems.

3 December 2020 Cathy Rigby

Acting allows me the freedom to let go, to be in the moment, to be spontaneous. I no longer have the fear of losing, of failure.

3 December 2020 Frederic William Farrar

There is only one real failure in life that is possible, and that is, not to be true to the best one knows.

3 December 2020 Johnny Cash

You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don’t try to forget the mistakes, but you don’t dwell on it. You don’t let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.

3 December 2020 Robin Tunney

A film’s success or failure is strictly on the director’s shoulders.

3 December 2020 Bryant H. McGill

While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure.

3 December 2020 Frederick Smith

Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.

3 December 2020 Desi Arnaz

Failure is the most terrible thing in our business. When we fail, the whole world knows about it.

3 December 2020 Jeremy Irons

So nevertheless, what I’m saying is that what one is – one’s parameters are constantly narrowed by one’s success, and my desire is to widen my field even if I risk failure.

3 December 2020 Chen Shui-bian

I understand the harsh feelings and sentiments from my opponents and their supporters because I myself have been defeated twice in my political life in the past and I understand very well it is hard to accept your own failure.

3 December 2020 Corey Hart

I think you can learn as much from success as you can from failure.

3 December 2020 David Suzuki

The failure of world leaders to act on the critical issue of global warming is often blamed on economic considerations.

3 December 2020 Benjamin Disraeli

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

3 December 2020 Brett Favre

I may be a successful football player, but I feel like such a failure.

3 December 2020 Matt Emmons

Failure and things of this sort – you can take it one of two ways. You can either let that hurt you and really affect the way that you live your life in the future, or you can use that as an opportunity for growth.

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