Failure
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Failure describes a situation which has failed to meet an expected outcome.
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- All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
- Samuel Beckett, Worstward Ho (1983)
- 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 fail by default.
- J. K. Rowling, 2008 Harvard commencement speech
- Failure is not an option.
- Gene Kranz, Flight Director NASA, During the Apollo 13 Crisis
- In the lexicon of youth, which fate reserves
For a bright manhood, there is no such word
As – fail.- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II.ii
- Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping.
- Julius and Augustus Hare, Guesses at Truth, I
- I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.
- John Keats, Letter to J. A. Hessey, 9th October 1818
- Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.
- Earl Wilson, as quoted in 0 to Bitch in 10 Seconds Or Less : Quips and Comebacks for Quick-Witted Women (2005) by Amy Hatch, p. 268
- If at first you don't succeed, cheat, repeat until caught, and then lie!
- Unknown author, quoted in 0 to Bitch in 10 Seconds Or Less : Quips and Comebacks for Quick-Witted Women (2005) by Amy Hatch, p. 268
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- If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure.
- Failure is all part of success
- This organization does not tolerate failure.
- Ernst Stavro Blofeld, head of SPECTRE, in the James Bond series written by Ian Fleming.
- Failure plus failure plus failure equals success. You only fail when you quit.
- Jack Hyles
- Unattributed derivatives: "Failure equals success." and "Failure = Success"
- If we do not succeed we run the risk of failure.
- Dan Quayle, Vice President of the United States.
- If you do not try you cannot fail.
- There is no failure except in no longer trying.
- You never know where bottom is until you plumb for it.
- Failure is not Final.
- If at first you don't succeed, try, try, again. Then quit. There's no use in being a damn fool about it.
- How far high failure overleaps the bounds of low success.
- When a man blames others for his failures, it's a good idea to credit others with his succeses.
- If at first you don't succeed, redefine what you did as success.
If at first you don't succeed, redefine success.
- Failing to plan is planning to fail.
- Variant: Failure to plan is planning to fail.
- Variant: If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
- Failure is always an option.
- To fall is not to fail, you fail when you don't try
