#failure

Nothing succeeds, they say, like success. And certainly nothing fails like failure. ↗

— Margaret Drabble

#fails #failure #like #nothing #say

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. ↗

— John Drinkwater

#ask #been #capacity #either #exhausts

Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

#failure #first #i #man #me

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

#i #man #me #satisfied #show

To me, all war is failure for humanity, though it often is a bounty for commerce. ↗

— Mark Edwards

#commerce #failure #humanity #me #often

If we don't succeed we run the risk of failure. ↗

— Dan Quayle

#risk #run #succeed

The failure of the White House and Congress to seriously address the nation's fiscal situation is certain to broaden the belief among many voters that the U.S. political system is broken. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#among #belief #broaden #broken #certain

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#failure #fear #know #mistakes #out

The Soviet Union has indeed been our greatest menace, not so much because of what it has done, but because of the excuses it has provided us for our failures. ↗

— J. William Fulbright

#been #done #excuses #failures #greatest

One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure. ↗

— John W. Gardner

#failure #learning #less #people #reasons