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Failure is fantastic, because you meet yourself and get to know your limitations. This is how I express myself, and I can't do it any other way.

— Billy Childish

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I constantly experience failure in that my work is never as good as I want it to be. So I live with failure.

— Jeremy Irons

Get used to dealing with failure as long as it doesn't hurt people around you, as long as it doesn't hurt you physically, or it doesn't hurt you so much that you can't pick yourself up.

— Dean Kamen

I love failure. It's stuff that I'm thinking about all the time in my life, so it would make sense to me anyway to write about it.

— Loudon Wainwright III

Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure.

— Jack Lemmon

Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it.

— Mia Hamm

I'm drawn to failure. I feel like I'm contending with it constantly in my own life.

— Joyce Carol Oates

Failure is enriching. It's also important to accept that you'll make mistakes - it's how you build your expertise. The trick is to learn a positive lesson from all of life's negative moments.

— Alain Ducasse

Failure doesn't kill you... it increases your desire to make something happen.

— Kevin Costner

✗Opposing Perspectives

I was brought up to believe that there is no such thing as failure as long as I'm trying my best. So I've had a 'blood, guts and glory' approach through my whole life.

— Ali Larter

Failure is an enigma. You worry about it, and it teaches you something.

— James Dyson