My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States. - Harry S Truman A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying. - John Burroughs Any man who keeps working is not a failure. He may not be a great writer, but if he applies the old-fashioned virtues of hard, constant labor, he'll eventually make some kind of career for himself as writer. - Ray Bradbury They always assumed that I did not speak. That I could not. So many had plotted my death, discussed it, laughed about it, even while I was in the same room, because they assumed I was mindless. Like one of the failures of their kind, born mad. But I was not a failure. I was what I was supposed to be. I was dhampir. And they never lived to tell anyone they were wrong. - Karen Chance I don't believe in failure, because simply by saying you've failed, you've admitted you attempted. And anyone who attempts i...

I will tell you that there have been no failures in my life. I don't want to sound like some metaphysical queen,but there have been no failures. There have been some tremendous lessons. - Oprah Winfrey You are no failure, on a river. The water moves regardless - for all it cares, you might be a minnow or a tadpole, a turtle on a beavered log. You might be nothing at all. - Leif Enger If you try to do your best there is no failure. - Mike Farrell 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. - Edmond H Fischer 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. - Kin Hubbard Our task is to become our best selves. One of God's greatest gifts to us is the joy of trying again, for no failure ever need be final. - Thomas S Monson We do not...

African Americans make up about 13 percent of the U.S. population but comprise 32 percent of patients treated for kidney failure, giving them a kidney failure rate that is 4.2 times greater than that of white Americans. - Xavier Becerra Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease, where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function, the end result of which is kidney failure. - Xavier Becerra

What we've got here is a failure to communicate. - Donn Pearce What we have here is a failure to communicate. - Cherise Sinclair We all struggle with our failure to communicate and our failure to reach beyond fear to love people. - Mira Sorvino

We believe that preparation eradicates cowardice, which we define as the failure to act in the midst of fear. - Veronica Roth So while I will never minimize the costs involved in military action, I am convinced that a failure to act in Libya would have carried a far greater price for America. - Barack Obama The futility of action does not absolve one from the failure to act. - - Janette Turner Hospital

In Iraq we must succeed. Failure is not an option. - Zbigniew Brzezinski Failure is not an option if success is just a matter of trying harder - W Bruce Cameron Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed. - Arnold Schwarzenegger If failure is not an option, then neither is success. - Seth Godin

Belief isn't simply a thing for fair times and bright days, I think. What is beliefwhat is faithif you don't continue in it after failure? - Brandon Sanderson What is belief - what is faith - if you don't continue it after failure? - Brandon Sanderson There is nothing that teaches you more than regrouping after failure and moving on. Yet most people are stricken with fear. They fear failure so much that they fail. They are too conditioned, too used to being told what to do. It begins with the family, runs through school and goes into the business world. - Charles Bukowski

Don't be afraid of failure; be afraid of petty success. - Maude Adams Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest. - Chanakya It's not that we fly by the seat of our pants. We're not afraid of failure. - Craig Ferguson In high school, in sport, I had a coach who told me I was much better than I thought I was, and would make me do more in a positive sense. He was the first person who taught me not to be afraid of failure. - Mike Krzyzewski The only person who can make you miserable is yourself, if you hold back because you're too afraid of failure to take a chance. - Shana Norris I'm sure not afraid of success and I've learned not to be afraid of failure. The only thing I'm afraid of now is of being someone I don't like much. - Anna Quindlen You can't be afraid of failure and you can't be afraid of success, because either one gets in the way of yo...

In my mind, the men and women of NASA are history's modern pioneers. They attempt the impossible, accept failure, and then back to the drawing board while the rest of us stand back and criticize. - Dan Brown If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk. - Rosalynn Carter You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you can be satisfied that you've tried. If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk. - Rosalynn Carter I didn't want to accept failure. Even though sometimes the strength it takes to admit failure is probably worth as much as the determination not to quit. So there you have, I was stuck fighting for a relationship with a boyfriend who, in truth be told, I'd rather forget ever existed. - C...

It's not about failure; it's about trying something and risking something for attaining your goal. - Carol Alt If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure. - H Jackson Brown Jr Don't worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try. - Jack Canfield If a book about failures doesn't sell, is it a success? - Jerry Seinfeld We're taught to find the antecedents to our adult failures in childhood traumas, and so we spend our lives looking bacwards and pointing fingers, rather than bucking up and forging ahead. But what if your childhood was all a big misunderstanding? An elaborate ruse? What does that say about failure? Better yet, what does that say about potential? - Heidi Julavits Well, I was lucky enough to be involved in about 19 failures at an early age, so I'm realistic about the success I'm having and how quickly it can go away. What's important is to be smart about it. - Ma...