It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A man obsessed with failure has succeeded better than others in portraying it.
A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.
I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.
Ambitious failure, magnificent failure, is a very good thing.
The success and the failure are not my concern, but His.
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man.
I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.
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