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'No one can make you successful; the will to success comes from within.' I've made this my motto. I've internalized it to the point of understanding that the success of my actions and/or endeavors doesn't depend on anyone else, and that includes a possible failure.

Quotes by Fabrizio Moreira

Pride is ugly. It says, 'If you succeed, I am a failure.'

Quotes by Ezra Taft Benson

If you fall during your life, it doesn't matter. You're never a failure as long as you try to get up.

Quotes by Evel Knievel

I couldn't stand the thought of not succeeding; failure was more than I could deal with.

Quotes by Everett McGill

I'm troubled by what I see as a sort of rooting for Trump's failure, because that is rooting for our own failure.

Quotes by Eva Moskowitz

Tyranny is increasingly unsustainable in this post-cold-war era. It is doomed to failure. But it must be prodded to exit the stage with a whimper - not the bang that extremists long for.

Quotes by Eskinder Nega

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.

Quotes by Estelle Morris

Any man who has $10,000 left when he dies is a failure.

Quotes by Errol Flynn

A man obsessed with failure has succeeded better than others in portraying it.

Quotes by Erland Josephson

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

Ernest Hemingway

Some teachers feel that if they ask for emotional help, they're a failure. But teaching is a team sport.

Quotes by Erin Gruwell

The failings in Afghanistan don't fall on the shoulders of the American service personnel trying to complete their mission. The failure falls on military leadership unable to adapt to irregular warfare, and a Congress that blindly continues to fund failure.

Quotes by Erik Prince

Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure. Do not mistake a child for his symptom.

Quotes by Erik Erikson

The attributes for entrepreneurs cut both ways. You need the ability to ignore inconvenient facts and see the world as it should be and not as it is. This inspires people to take huge leaps of faith. But this blindness to facts can be a liability, too. The characteristics that help entrepreneurs succeed can also lead to their failure.

Quotes by Eric Ries

I can't say I'm not grateful to have journalists writing about me as a genius. But I know it's not true. I'm not confused. I understand that success comes through a lot of failure and a lot of very embarrassing failure. People want to create the next Facebook, but they are too afraid to create the next Facemash.

Quotes by Eric Ries

Our educational system is not preparing people for the 21st Century. Failure is an essential part of entrepreneurship. If you work hard, you can get an 'A' pretty much guaranteed, but in entrepreneurship, that's not how it works.

Quotes by Eric Ries

Start-ups make so many mistakes that the challenge to identify the root cause of a failure is tough. But believing in your own plan is probably the worst.

Quotes by Eric Ries

There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

Quotes by Eric Hoffer

It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression.

Quotes by Eric Hoffer

I've probably earned the right to screw up a few times. I don't want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about.

Quotes by Emma Watson

I'm finding that success is way more time-consuming than failure ever was.

Quotes by Emma Donoghue

Vinod Khosla is best known for shunning convention and taking massive risks on companies he calls 'black swans' -companies with a near-complete chance of failure. But, if they succeed, the world will be forever changed.

Quotes by Emily Chang

Elektra isn't a villain and isn't a good girl, but as Frank Miller said, she is one of the villains with a weak streak in them, and that's a failure that I tried to explore.

Quotes by Elodie Yung

The reality is gas prices should be much more expensive then they are because we're not incorporating the true damage to the environment and the hidden costs of mining oil and transporting it to the U.S. Whenever you have an unpriced externality, you have a bit of a market failure, to the degree that eternality remains unpriced.

Quotes by Elon Musk

Smokey Robinson writes the heartfelt songs, whereas it was my job to write the songs about weakness and failure in love.

Quotes by Elvis Costello

There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible.

Quotes by Elliot Richardson

Pentathlon is not a sign of my failure in swimming. It's a new start for me.

Quotes by Elodie Clouvel

I hate how box-office failures are blamed on an actress, yet I don't see a box-office failure blamed on men.

Quotes by Ellen Page

To be a programmer is to develop a carefully managed relationship with error. There's no getting around it. You either make your accommodations with failure, or the work will become intolerable.

Quotes by Ellen Ullman

I fell off my pink cloud with a thud.

Quotes by Elizabeth Taylor

At the end of the day I have always seen the end of my relationships as a personal failure. There is nothing ever pretty in saying goodbye.

Quotes by Elisabetta Canalis

The paranoiac is the exact image of the ruler. The only difference is their position in the world. One might even think the paranoiac the more impressive of the two because he is sufficient unto himself and cannot be shaken by failure.

Quotes by Elias Canetti

I had to succeed. Failure means I would have to be homeless again.

Quotes by Elie Tahari

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

Elbert Hubbard

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

Elbert Hubbard

Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure.

Elbert Hubbard

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

Elbert Hubbard

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

Elbert Hubbard

We would be billionaires, but we took responsibility for Summa's failure.

Quotes by Edwin Soeryadjaya

If something works, you shouldn't do it again. We want to do something that is new, original - something where there's a good chance of failure.

Quotes by Edwin Catmull

An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.

Quotes by Edwin Land

Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.

Quotes by Edwin Markham

Spain held the doctrine (and was right in holding it) that every human enterprise should stand on two pillars - the temporal and the spiritual. To depend upon one of these pillars alone is to call down final failure upon any undertaking.

Quotes by Edwin Markham

So long as TARP money is wrapped up in GM, the company will never shake its 'Government Motors' image. That label, as competitors and GM employees are keenly aware, is code for one thing: 'GM is a failure.'

Quotes by Edward Whitacre, Jr.

Intemperance and intolerance serve no one, and hatred guarantees failure.

Quotes by Edward Brooke

You have to motivate people to take almost certain failure to get a small amount of success, which has driven our economy forward.

Quotes by Edward Conard

Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.

Quotes by Edward Dowden

Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.

Quotes by Edward Abbey

The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not causes. Nothing more than the patching up of those attacked and the burying of those who are slain, without a thought being given to the real strong hold.

Quotes by Edward Bach

Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.

Quotes by Edsger Dijkstra

It is commonly said that a teacher fails if he has not been surpassed by his students. There has been no failure on our part in this regard considering how far they have gone.

Quotes by Edmond H. Fischer

I have never, ever considered myself a failure.

Quotes by Eddie the Eagle

Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all fear is the ego's fear of death, of annihilation. To the ego, death is always just around the corner. In this mind-identified state, fear of death affects every aspect of your life.

Quotes by Eckhart Tolle

The sentiments in Hawaii about Washington's failure of leadership are no different than the rest of the country.

Quotes by Ed Case

The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.

Quotes by Earl Warren

You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give.

Quotes by E. O. Wilson

If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.

Quotes by E. O. Wilson

Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life.

Quotes by E. Franklin Frazier

That's all I ever wanted - to go out as myself and have the success or failure fall on me.

Quotes by Drew McIntyre

Fear of failure has always been my best motivator.

Quotes by Douglas Wood

Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them.

Quotes by Douglas Coupland

Sometimes failure isn't an opportunity in disguise, it's just you.

Quotes by Douglas Coupland

Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being.

Quotes by Douglas Coupland

If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure.

Quotes by Douglas Coupland

In taking stock of ourselves, we should not forget that fear plays a large part in the drama of failure. That is the first thing to be dropped. Fear is a mental deficiency susceptible of correction, if taken in hand before it gains an ascendency over us. Fear comes with the thought of failure.

Quotes by Douglas Fairbanks

I had this contract to write songs for people when I was about 18. I don't think any of them were taken up; I was a complete failure at it! But I've kept doing it, writing little songs for myself.

Quotes by Douglas Hodge

All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right about face which turns us from failure to success.

Quotes by Dorothea Brande

Dan Marino never won the big game. Does that mean his career is a failure? No, not at all.

Quotes by Donovan McNabb

Failure. It doesn't exist. 'Failure' is just what happens when we lose perspective.

Quotes by Donna Brazile

Failure is a great learning tool.

Quotes by Donna Langley

Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.

Quotes by Donald Trump

Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Quotes by Don Shula

Michael Jordan taught me after our game of one-on-one: A loss is not a failure until you make an excuse. When excuses are no longer an option, you can focus your attention on the job you have to do, and not why it didn’t get done.

Quotes by Don Yaeger

People in the business will stay with you through drugs and alcohol and divorces and insanity and everything else, but you have a failure, pal, and they don't want to know nothing about you!

Quotes by Don Johnson

But if you look at WorldCom, which is the biggest failure to date, they grew dramatically, they were buying companies that were bigger than they were and they were doing it off inflated stock.

Quotes by Don Nickles

For me, the path of failure exceeded by far the joys of success. My plight was hopeless.

Quotes by Dominick Dunne

Trade wars in which countries are then obliged to retaliate by raising their own tariffs against the initiator undermine growth and hurt consumers. Far from being expressions of strength they highlight the failure of the initiating country's economic sector to compete in the global market place.

Quotes by Dominic Grieve

The failure to manage economic migration properly has put further pressure on transport and housing.

Quotes by Dominic Grieve

As efforts to fix this failure at the Veterans Administration continue, I also intend to persist in demanding answers and action on the establishment of a new clinic to serve the veterans in North Central Washington.

Quotes by Doc Hastings

Hollywood... a city I was to come back to time and again, in sickness and in health, in success and in failure, with anticipation and with dread.

Quotes by Dirk Benedict

You're always just trying to create opportunities and be ready when those opportunities present themselves. I can't look at anybody and think 'I want to be Damian Lewis' - I'd be setting myself up for failure.

Quotes by Diego Klattenhoff

You always learn, especially in failure.

Quotes by Didier Deschamps

The Prince interview was a failure. Huge, but most memorable 'cause he didn't say anything.

Quotes by Dick Clark

There is a no-man's land in our politics: on the one hand, bounded by what we know to be true, and on the other hand, bounded by what the media says is politically correct. And that's where Donald Trump lives. And it's our failure to admit what we all know to be true in the guise of political correctness that fuels the Trump candidacy.

Quotes by Dick Morris

We can't have a failure in Iraq, but we also can't be there for the next 10 years because if we are, it's going to become, I think, a failure in and of itself.

Quotes by Dennis Ross

I like being on a team and that's what a band is like. It's us against them, strength in numbers, and sharing the success and failure.

Quotes by Dennis DeYoung

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Quotes by Denis Waitley

To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.

Quotes by Denis Waitley

Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

Quotes by Denis Waitley

So many people view the war on drugs as a failure, as something that was perhaps intended and carried out with good intentions but very badly executed.

Quotes by Denise Dresser

Unwillingness to risk failure is always there, but it gets harder when you feel you have more to lose.

Quotes by Demi Moore

I was never afraid of failure after that because, I think, coming that close to death you get kissed. With the years, the actual experience of course fades, but the flavor of it doesn't. I just had a real sense of what choice do I have but to live fully?

Quotes by Debra Winger

The exposed nature of life in the public square affects leaders' attitudes toward risk - and failure.

Quotes by Dee Dee Myers

As long as the G.O.P., led by its increasingly visible women, continues to insist that the problem is not their policies but women's failure to understand their own lives and interests, the gender gap won't go away.

Quotes by Dee Dee Myers

It's a failure of imagination if you can only write what you know - we have to be able to imagine different worlds.

Quotes by Dee Rees

Success comes when people act together; failure tends to happen alone.

Quotes by Deepak Chopra

For many young men, joining in a radical movement is a way of feeling powerful, which is particularly intoxicating for men who feel their masculinity has been called into question, whether through victimisation or a failure to achieve the status that they feel they are entitled to.

Quotes by Deeyah Khan

It's not a failure if a marriage or partnership ends after a certain number of years. I think, in general, we expect too much of partners. We can't fulfil a person's every single need and, after ten years or so, many relationships wear out. If we were more philosophical about it, we wouldn't try to blame the other person or be bitter.

Quotes by Deborah Moggach

Greenleaf' is about family, but also about faith and failure and real human life.

Quotes by Deborah Joy Winans

My biggest failure is I have too many to talk about.

Quotes by Dean Kamen

Get used to dealing with failure as long as it doesn't hurt people around you, as long as it doesn't hurt you physically, or it doesn't hurt you so much that you can't pick yourself up.

Quotes by Dean Kamen

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