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Failure

(noun) State or condition of not meeting a desirable or intended objective, opposite of success.

106 QUOTES
"Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor."
— Truman Capote
"The master has failed more times than the novice has even tried."
— Stephen McCranie
"The real test is not whether you avoid this failure because you won't."
— J.K. Rowling
"A jug fills drop by drop."
— Gautama Buddha
"No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war."
— Eleanor Roosevelt
"The master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried."
— Stephen McCranie
"Every loser gotta win and every winner gotta lose someday."
— J. Cole
"Those who have failed to work toward the truth have missed the purpose of living."
— Gautama Buddha
"Things in life will not always run smoothly. Sometimes we will be rising toward the heights—then all will seem to reverse itself and start downward."
— George Washington
"The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure."
— George Bernard Shaw
"If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail!"
— Benjamin Franklin
"You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist."
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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