Top Failure Quotes
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill
They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?
Fidel Castro
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Winston Churchill
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
Bill Cosby
Failure is success if we learn from it.
Malcolm Forbes
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There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
Orlando Bloom 
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Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo.
Camille Paglia
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It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.
Samuel Smiles
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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.
Johnny Cash
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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.
John McCarthy
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Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.
S. I. Hayakawa
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Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.
Napoleon Hill
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The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause.
Gustav Mahler
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If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.
Robert H. Schuller
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