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There's no such thing as failure - just waiting for success.

Quotes by John Osborne

The vast majority of large scale change efforts fail. Which means that the probability that you have actually experienced a failure, and your people know that and are pessimistic, therefore, about trying something again, is very high.

Quotes by John P. Kotter

Success unshared is failure.

Quotes by John Paul DeJoria

When preaching is done right, it can change lives. When it's done badly, my failure goes beyond the merely human.

Quotes by John Ortberg

There is always time for failure.

Quotes by John Mortimer

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.

Quotes by John Mica

Failure's a natural part of life.

Quotes by John Malkovich

Of course, Third World leaders love you. By ascribing third world ills to First World sins, you absolve them of blame for their countries' failure to advance.

Quotes by John McCarthy

If 50 percent of your career is not filled with failure, you're not really successful.

Quotes by John Larroquette

War remains the decisive human failure.

Quotes by John Kenneth Galbraith

Government doesn't have a high tolerance for failure.

Quotes by John Hickenlooper

Failure is a word that I simply don't accept.

Quotes by John H. Johnson

I felt like a failure for so long because I wasn't able to access myself in the way I knew I would have if I was going to make music that mattered. I knew I was going to have to learn how to be honest.

Quotes by John Grant

So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind that exhausts the imaginative capacity; if it fails to do this the failure will announce itself either in prose or in insignificant verse.

Quotes by John Drinkwater

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

Quotes by John Dewey

War is failure of diplomacy.

Quotes by John Dingell

The only person who needs to know about failure is yourself.

Quotes by John Connolly

The power of fear of failure, with will to win, is an incredible force. I don't think we should be worried about having a fear of failure; I think it's quite natural. If you surveyed any top businessman or any top athlete, I bet if they were truthful, they would all say they've got a fear of losing and a fear of failure.

Quotes by John Caudwell

Your attitude towards failure determines your altitude after failure.

Quotes by John C. Maxwell

A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

Quotes by John Burroughs

A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.

Quotes by John Burroughs

We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve.

Quotes by John B. S. Haldane

Is anarchism possible? The failure of attempts to attain freedom does not mean the cause is lost.

Quotes by Johann Most

Man, failure was not an option whatsoever, 'cause I'm here to play music - that's what I've been put on earth for.

Quotes by Joey Jordison

The hippy movement was a failure.

Quotes by Joe Strummer

Demarcation disputes between supervisor and student are always difficult, probably impossible to resolve... it is the supervisor who has the final responsibility for the success or failure of the project.

Quotes by Jocelyn Bell Burnell

I think failing the qualifying or the 11-plus actually hurt me more than I realised. After I'd become a professor of physics at the Open University, I suddenly thought, 'This is a bit silly.' So I suddenly became much more open about it. But I think probably I was hurt by the failure and didn't want to talk about it.

Quotes by Jocelyn Bell Burnell

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.

Quotes by Jimmy Carr

Rather than viewing a brief relapse back to inactivity as a failure, treat it as a challenge and try to get back on track as soon as possible.

Quotes by Jimmy Connors

For a long time, it was all about chart position. 'If my record doesn't come in at No. 1, I'm a failure.' I cared too much about what people thought of me, and that was symptomatic of the trauma from my childhood.

Quotes by Jimmy Barnes

Losing is no disgrace if you've given your best.

Quotes by Jim Palmer

For some time, I thought Apollo 13 was a failure. I was disappointed I didn't get to land on the moon. But actually, it turned out to be the best thing that could have happened.

Quotes by Jim Lovell

You cannot learn anything from success, you only learn from failure.

Quotes by Jim Dale

Pharmaceutical companies are enjoying unprecedented profits and access with this Administration. Yet the Republicans' prescription drug plan for seniors has been a colossal failure, and over 43 million Americans wake up every morning without health insurance.

Quotes by Jim Clyburn

If taxpayers want better results from Congress, they must stop paying their elected officials for failure. After all, you get what you pay for.

Quotes by Jim Cooper

Politicians are terrified of losing touch with folks back home but content to be clueless about government's failure to fix real problems.

Quotes by Jim Cooper

Success needs no explanation. Failure does not have one that matters.

Quotes by Jesse Jackson

My work ethic came from my parents and my fear of failure. I came from a small, predominantly black school and I didn't want to let them down.

Quotes by Jerry Rice

Definitely, it's a fear of failure that drives me.

Quotes by Jerry Bruckheimer

If you're not a born-again Christian, you're a failure as a human being.

Quotes by Jerry Falwell

Risk management systems and controls may discourage or limit certain revenue-generating opportunities. Failure to ensure the independence of these functions from the revenue generators and risk takers has been shown to be dangerous, and this is something for which the board is accountable.

Quotes by Jerome Powell

It is worth noting that 'too big to fail' is not simply about size. A big institution is 'too big' when there is an expectation that government will do whatever it takes to rescue that institution from failure, thus bestowing an effective risk premium subsidy. Reforms to end 'too big to fail' must address the causes of this expectation.

Quotes by Jerome Powell

My first failure was to be born a child not wanted by his father or mother, as they parted shortly after I was born.

Quotes by Jeremy Lloyd

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.

Quotes by Jeremy Irons

I constantly experience failure in that my work is never as good as I want it to be. So I live with failure.

Quotes by Jeremy Irons

Even as far back as when I started acting at 14, I know I've never considered failure.

Quotes by Jennifer Lawrence

I think somehow you need to get to a certain point in your life where the notion of failure is absurd.

Quotes by Jeff Tweedy

Among all the tests President Obama faced in his first term, his biggest failure was climate change.

Quotes by Jeff Goodell

If you were to plot my success or failure, it goes, it very seldom stays on a high plateau.

Quotes by Jeff Beck

I think success has no rules, but you can learn a great deal from failure.

Quotes by Jean Kerr

YouTube began as a failed video-dating site. Twitter was a failed music service. In each case, the founders continued to try new concepts when their big ideas failed. They often worked around the clock to try to overcome their failure before all their capital was spent. Speed to fail gives a startup more runway to pivot and ultimately succeed.

Quotes by Jay Samit

There is a huge difference between failing and failure. Failing is trying something that you learn doesn't work. Failure is throwing in the towel and giving up. True success comes from failing repeatedly and as quickly as possible, before your cash or your willpower runs out.

Quotes by Jay Samit

Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.

Jawaharlal Nehru

I just felt that 'Golden Balls' was the right thing to do. I didn't care if people thought I was a failure.

Quotes by Jasper Carrott

As a younger player, you always kind of play with that fear of failure.

Quotes by Jason Giambi

I believe only in art and failure.

Quotes by Jane Rule

When we're in game worlds, I believe that many of us become the best version of ourselves: the most likely to help at a moment's notice. The most likely to stick with a problem as long as it takes. To get up after failure and try again.

Quotes by Jane McGonigal

Second novels are bears. As are other people's expectations for them. I think taking the time you need with the second book is key. Writers spend years and years on their first novels and then are often expected to turn out a second at warp speed, a recipe for failure.

Quotes by Jandy Nelson

If you're a doctor or a lawyer or teacher, if you only get three things right out of 10, you're considered a failure.

Quotes by Jamie Moyer

Capitalism, after all, is no fun when real failure becomes a possibility.

Quotes by James Surowiecki

I had five years of failure, really, before I had the first initial sign of success.

Quotes by James Rothman

Not failure, but low aim, is crime.

Quotes by James Russell Lowell

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

Quotes by James Russell Lowell

Feeling is the consciousness of the resulting conditions - of success, failure, equilibrium, compromise or balance, in this continuous rivalry of ideas.

Quotes by James Mark Baldwin

Usually, with the work I've done, by the end, I usually feel like it's a failure. It doesn't matter how it's received.

Quotes by James Marsh

He who has conquered doubt and fear has conquered failure.

Quotes by James Lane Allen

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

James Joyce

I think that Obama's failure to reestablish the rule of law in money matters is the most damaging thing that he's done - and perhaps the most damaging thing that has happened in American politics in my lifetime. Because once the rule of law is absent in money matters, then anything really goes in politics.

Quotes by James Howard Kunstler

The carrying out of the Potsdam Agreement has, however, been obstructed by the failure of the Allied Control Council to take the necessary steps to enable the German economy to function as an economic unit.

Quotes by James F. Byrnes

Our system never treated the failure of prison as a reason not to try more prison.

Quotes by James Forman, Jr.

How come we never use prison, the failure of prison, as a reason not to give more prison? There's never a moment where we say, 'OK, well, prison hasn't worked, so we're not going to try that again.'

Quotes by James Forman, Jr.

Enjoy failure and learn from it. You can never learn from success.

Quotes by James Dyson

I believe in trusting men, not only once but twice - in giving a failure another chance.

Quotes by James Cash Penney

The first week in intelligence school, you learn there are only two conditions in life. There is policy success, or there is intel failure. There is no other condition in life.

Quotes by James Clapper

A failure to listen to the party's grassroots was a charge regularly levelled at Theresa May - particularly over Brexit.

Quotes by James Cleverly

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.

Quotes by James Allen

Obama said that his performance at bowling was so bad 'it was like the Special Olympics or something.' Disability, by Obama's definition, was about difference and failure.

Quotes by Jack Thorne

Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure.

Quotes by Jack Lemmon

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

Quotes by Jack Kerouac

I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

Quotes by J. Paul Getty

A hatred of failure has always been part of my nature.

Quotes by J. Paul Getty

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.

J.K. Rowling

Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.

J.K. Rowling

When people read 'Breitbart' every single day and convince themselves that Barack Obama is a foreign terrorist, that is not a problem of government. That is a problem of community failure, and we have to recognize that.

Quotes by J. D. Vance

Trump's biggest failure as a political leader is that he sees the worst in people, and he encourages the worst in people.

Quotes by J. D. Vance

Never tell anyone outside my staff that the Submarine Force and the First Air Fleet were responsible for the failure at Midway. The failure at Midway was mine.

Quotes by Isoroku Yamamoto

A traveller must buy his own experience, and success or failure depends mainly on personal idiosyncrasies.

Quotes by Isabella Bird

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.

Quotes by Irving Babbitt

The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures.

Quotes by Humphry Davy

The only reason my work seems to be eclectic up to a certain period is because I was a failure as an actor.

Quotes by Hugh Grant

I think my whole life, because of where I came from, I had a fear of failure.

Quotes by Howard Schultz

We learned not to let the fear of failure stop us from attempting to fulfil our dreams - whether that dream involved a change in career, attempting to set world records, or helping young people.

Quotes by Holly Branson

Switching languages is a form of conversion. And like all conversions, whether it's judged a failure or a success, it excites the desire to leave, go elsewhere, adopt a new language and start all over again. It also means that a conscious effort is demanded to remain still.

Quotes by Hisham Matar

Success and failure are greatly overrated. But failure gives you a whole lot more to talk about.

Quotes by Hildegard Knef

We are human beings, at the end of the day. Success and failure are a part and parcel of our life.

Quotes by Hima Das

I'm not scared of anything in particular, but I am motivated by a fear of failure as opposed to a need to succeed.

Quotes by Heston Blumenthal

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.

Quotes by Hideki Tojo

My biggest failure is 'Metal Gear.' It's my biggest failure and my biggest success.

Quotes by Hideo Kojima

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Quotes by Herbert Samuel

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

Quotes by Herbert Bayard Swope

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Quotes by Herbert Kaufman

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