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I don't know if it's a failure of imagination on my part, but I'm not going to be writing about Paris in the 1800s. I feel like it would come off as just ludicrously uninformed, even if I did a lot of research.

Quotes by Maria Semple

Nothing fails like failure.

Quotes by Margaret Drabble

Nothing succeeds, they say, like success. And certainly nothing fails like failure.

Quotes by Margaret Drabble

I feel like every time I take on a movie, it's important that the possibility of failure exists, and of the unknown, because it's a challenge to do something I haven't done before and something I have to try to work out.

Quotes by Marc Forster

I don’t live my life based on fear of failure. I live my life with an understanding of failure and I’m embracing it, because every time I fail, I learn something new.

Quotes by Mandy Harvey

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

Quotes by Malcolm X

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Quotes by Malcolm Forbes

I was taught that to create anything you had to believe in failure, simply because you had to be prepared to go through an idea without any fear. Failure, you learned, as I did in art school, to be a wonderful thing. It allowed you to get up in the morning and take the pillow off your head.

Quotes by Malcolm Mclaren

There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.

Quotes by Malcolm Muggeridge

The moral turpitude of the boys of today appears to center in their failure to concentrate on any particular objective long enough to obtain their maximum results.

Quotes by Major Taylor

Yes, 'Aagadu' was a failure. I was dejected for a couple of months, since there was a lot at stake.

Quotes by Mahesh Babu

To err is human, but it feels divine.

Mae West

As is well known, 'McCarthyism' was an alleged focus of political evil in the 1950s: Accusations of Communist taint, without factual basis; bogus lists of supposed Communists who never existed; failure in the end to produce even one provable Communist or Soviet agent, despite his myriad charges of subversion.

Quotes by M. Stanton Evans

The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.

Quotes by Lyndon B. Johnson

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.

Quotes by Lucille Ball

Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

Quotes by Luc de Clapiers

Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.

Quotes by Louis E. Boone

I love failure. It's stuff that I'm thinking about all the time in my life, so it would make sense to me anyway to write about it.

Quotes by Loudon Wainwright III

I think I've failed every test I've ever taken. If there was a failure I would have been it.

Quotes by Lisa Marie Presley

Don't be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.

Quotes by Lily Tomlin

Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.

Quotes by Lillian Hellman

While entrepreneurs spend a lot of effort trying to avoid failure, sometimes the lessons one learns from those missteps can be invaluable.

Quotes by Lewis Howes

The average member of the public thinks of 'business' as an impersonal corporate entity owned by the very rich and managed by overpaid executives. There is an almost total failure to appreciate that 'business' actually embraces - in one way or another - most Americans.

Quotes by Lewis F. Powell, Jr.

Even in a gleefully negative comic, there is optimism, although it's slightly hidden: It comes out through a comic character's sheer tenacity. He keeps going and trying to find some sort of fulfillment regardless of his perpetual failure record. That's a form of hope, a form of optimism. Really hokey I know, but it's true.

Quotes by Lev Yilmaz

A failure doesn't mean you are unworthy, nor does it preclude success on the next try.

Quotes by Leonard Mlodinow

I guess it's the fear of failure and not knowing how the films are going to do that just drives us to work really hard to make them the best they can possibly be.

Quotes by Lee Unkrich

I'm living life as best I can - but I'm not exempt from failure and making bad choices.

Quotes by LeAnn Rimes

You have to be able to accept failure to get better.

Quotes by LeBron James

Former Sen. Alan Simpson of Wyoming, the co-author of the 1986 Simpson-Mazzoli immigration reform bill, has said the failure of that bill was a function of the lack of an ID card system.

Quotes by Lawrence Kudlow

Fear of failure, what is that? It would never occur to me.

Quotes by Laurie David

My failure, during the first five or six years of my art training, to get set in the right direction, and the disappointment which it caused me, drove me the more persistently into writing as an alternative.

Quotes by Laurence Housman

The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

Quotes by Laurence J. Peter

I feel as if I've been so inured to failure, because I fail more than I succeed. As with any kind of fiction, I throw out so many pages; I get rejected so many times.

Quotes by Lauren Groff

When I was 18, I couldn't wait to move away. I was like: 'If I ever have to come back here, I'll kill myself.' Glasgow seemed like failure and death to me back then, but not any more.

Quotes by Laura Fraser

America traditionally represents the greatest possibility of someone's going from nothing to something. Why? In theory, if not practice, the government stays out of the way and lets individuals take risks and reap rewards or accept the consequences of failure. We call this capitalism - or, at least, we used to.

Quotes by Larry Elder

I don't care about what people think about me that don't know me. But the one thing that bothers me of all the places is the general perception was that I was a failure at USC as a head coach.

Quotes by Lane Kiffin

People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

Quotes by Lao Tzu

The way most people fail is in not keeping up the heart.

Quotes by Lady Gregory

If a process or adaptation seems too smart for nature, that's a failure of your imagination, not the hand of God. I can make that claim because we have a working model of life's morphing and molding without it.

Quotes by Kyle Hill

After that he turned to the question of invading England. Hitler said that during the previous year he could not afford to risk a possible failure; apart from that, he had not wished to provoke the British, as he hoped to arrange peace talks.

Quotes by Kurt Student

There were plenty of reasons to suspect Obamacare might have been a colossal failure - although none of them had to do with death panels, huge lines for treatment, a government takeover of health care, etc.

Quotes by Kurt Eichenwald

I mean, I love L.A. - I love living here. But I wish that we could make things without the need to hit a home run every single time. It's a unique thing to Hollywood that if you don't do that every time, then you're considered a failure. But it's like, 'Well, are you making movies to be successful? Or are you making movies to learn something?'

Quotes by Kristen Stewart

I have self-doubt. I have insecurity. I have fear of failure. I have nights when I show up at the arena and I'm like, 'My back hurts, my feet hurt, my knees hurt. I don't have it. I just want to chill.' We all have self-doubt. You don't deny it, but you also don't capitulate to it. You embrace it.

Quotes by Kobe Bryant

Most of the work performed by a development engineer results in failure.

Quotes by Koichi Tanaka

Show me a good and gracious loser and I'll show you a failure.

Quotes by Knute Rockne

In addition to being an economic security issue, the failure to pay women a salary that's equal to men for equal work is also a women's health issue. The fact is that the salary women are paid directly impacts the type of health care services they are able to access for both themselves and their families.

Quotes by Kirsten Gillibrand

I've had many failures in terms of technological... business... and even research failures. I really believe that entrepreneurship is about being able to face failure, manage failure and succeed after failing.

Quotes by Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.

Quotes by Kin Hubbard

All the world loves a good loser.

Quotes by Kin Hubbard

I signed my first film soon after I graduated from college. So, my real struggle started after my first film didn't do too well. But I believe failure only makes you stronger.

Quotes by Kiara Advani

One of the things my service in Iraq did give me was this freedom from fear of failure or any kind of expectations that I had to take a standard path.

Quotes by Kevin Powers

Success is often built on the shoulders of failure - from which new configurations emerge.

Quotes by Kevin Reilly

Failure doesn't kill you... it increases your desire to make something happen.

Quotes by Kevin Costner

When you walk past a painting in a museum, if it doesn't make you feel something, then it's probably a failure.

Quotes by Kenya Barris

Losing so many patients certainly was difficult, but it didn't make me feel like a failure as a physician, because I had learned that there was so much more to being a physician than curing illness. That's not the most important thing we do. The most important thing we do is enter into the suffering of others.

Quotes by Kent Brantly

Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success.

Quotes by Kenneth L. Pike

The business of biomedical research is mostly about failure. Few projects we commission will ultimately result in success. But every study we do contributes to the body of knowledge that brings science and society closer to a solution.

Quotes by Kenneth Frazier

Membership First's record is one of conflict, division and, ultimately, failure.

Quotes by Ken Howard

After five awful movies, I admitted failure and said I was not cut out to be an actor. But how many people get a chance to live their dream?

Quotes by Ken Bruen

I want to speak seventeen languages. When you think like that, you'll be consumed by failure. I'm haunted daily by what I don't know.

Quotes by Kelsey Grammer

I always performed out of fear of failure - and that's a tough way to play. It was as if my back was to the wall and I was constantly surrounded by very dangerous people that were not friendly to me.

Quotes by Keith Hernandez

I feel like 'Just.me' is not successful, but it is not a failure.

Quotes by Keith Teare

But I look at failure as education. In that respect, I am so well-educated.

Quotes by Kathy Ireland

It is a failure of imagination and methodology to claim that it is necessary to experiment on millions of people without their consent in order to produce good data science.

Quotes by Kate Crawford

We should teach our children about the reality of failure. Instead of buying them iPhones and iPads, we should teach them values and reality.

Quotes by Karthi

The failure of the Russian Socialist Republic will be the defeat of the proletariat of the whole world.

Quotes by Karl Liebknecht

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.

Quotes by Karen Armstrong

'This Is Not That Dawn' is remarkable in part for its careful and sensitive attention to women's lives - and also for its harsh critique of men and their failure to stop violence.

Quotes by Karan Mahajan

The thing about a failure is that it is possible to deny it forever.

Quotes by Karan Mahajan

I don't take success and failure seriously. The only thing I do seriously is march forward. If I fall, I get up and march again.

Quotes by Kareena Kapoor Khan

With the NDAA, his failure to close Guantanamo Bay and the ramping use of drones, President Obama looks suspiciously like President Bush, a man on a quest for American Empire.

Quotes by Justin Sane

Failure is ultimately very liberating. Once you come out the other side of it, you just might have faced one of your biggest fears and lived. The other side of failure is a big elimination of fear of failure. Trust me, that is an amazing gift.

Quotes by Julie Wainwright

Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.

Quotes by Jules Renard

I think it's really important to not be afraid of failure and to push yourself to try things and jump in the cold water.

Quotes by Juergen Teller

Success without someone to share it with is hollow indeed. On the other hand, it beats the heck out of failure.

Quotes by Judith McNaught

Obama's failure to close Guantanamo is yet another instance where the rhetoric of democratic and constitutional rights proved not useful for his international relations, relations which are always pursued in ways that continue to link and fortify securitarian power with the opening of new markets.

Quotes by Judith Butler

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

Quotes by Joyce Brothers

You get up and you preach a sermon and people walk away thinking what a great guy - and that's a failure as a pastor. Our job is to proclaim Christ.

Quotes by Joshua Harris

The only real failure to me is if you don't finish something.

Quotes by Josh Malerman

I will not be discouraged by failure; I will not be elated by success.

Quotes by Joseph Barber Lightfoot

The success and the failure are not my concern, but His.

Quotes by Joseph Barber Lightfoot

We do not realise that we are children of eternity. If we did, then success would be no success, and failure would be no failure to us.

Quotes by Joseph Barber Lightfoot

Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought.

Quotes by Joseph Barbera

There are people who say that you can't experiment... That condemns you to failure.

Quotes by Jose Mujica

I feel, in the end, as if everything I've done has been a failure.

Quotes by Jonathan Kozol

By far the most important factor in the success or failure of any school, far more important than tests or standards or business-model methods of accountability, is simply attracting the best-educated, most exciting young people into urban schools and keeping them there.

Quotes by Jonathan Kozol

Success is always less funny than failure.

Quotes by Jon Ronson

In the worst of our recession, bars were making money. Every bar can make money. If they're failing, it's not because of the president or Congress or Ukraine. It's because of them. And if you own failure, then you'll own success.

Quotes by Jon Taffer

I believe that every person's failure is their fault, every single time.

Quotes by Jon Taffer

Failure is an awful thing, and when I look at the common denominator of failure, it seems to always be the same thing: excuses.

Quotes by Jon Taffer

Failure is an extremely personal thing, and so is success. The problem with people is they don't own their failure, and if you don't own your failures, you're never going to own your successes.

Quotes by Jon Taffer

It has now been over 7 years since Congress last raised the minimum wage to its current level of $5.15 per hour. Since that last increase, Congress's failure to adjust the wage for inflation has reduced the purchasing power of the minimum wage to record low levels.

Quotes by Jon Corzine

My thing with failure, just forget about it and get up and do it again.

Quotes by JoJo Siwa

For the longest time, I was horrified to hear the word 'failure,' but I've come to realize that we all fail. It's just a part of life. We all fall. It's how you rebound that shows the type of person you are.

Quotes by Johnny Gargano

Whenever a chef cooks for his own ego rather than his guests, he/she set themselves up for ridicule and failure. In the end, it's the service industry. Our goal is to make our guests happy through our cooking.

Quotes by Johnny Iuzzini

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.

Quotes by Johnny Cash

Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

Quotes by John Wooden

Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Quotes by John Wooden

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

Quotes by John W. Gardner

I think he Oswald felt he was a failure and for the United States and for President Kennedy and all of us. He knew he was a failure at everything he tried, frustrated, with a very sad life, but he was a Marxist.

Quotes by John Sherman Cooper

You accept failure as a possible outcome of some of the experiments. If you don't get failures, you're not pushing hard enough on the objectives.

Quotes by John Poindexter

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